The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language

Ernie Lepore and Barry Smith present the definitive reference work for this diverse and fertile field of philosophy. A superb international team contribute forty brand-new essays covering topics from the nature of language to meaning, truth, and reference, and the interfaces of philosophy of language with linguistics, psychology, logic, epistemology, and metaphysics. It will be an essential resource for anyone working in the central areas of philosophy, for linguists interested in syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and for psychologists and cognitive scientists working on language.

The Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing. Each volume offers an authoritative and up-to-date survey of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates. Oxford Handbooks provide scholars and graduate students with compelling new perspectives upon a wide range of subjects in the humanities and social sciences. Ernie Lepore and Barry Smith present the definitive reference work for this diverse and fertile field of philosophy. A superb international team contribute more than forty brand-new essays covering topics from the nature of language to meaning, truth, and reference, and the interfaces of philosophy of language with linguistics, psychology, logic, epistemology, and metaphysics. It will be an essential resource for anyone working in the central areas of philosophy, for linguists interested in syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and for psychologists and cognitive scientists working on language.

1 - Frege's Contribution to Philosophy of Language
2 - Wittgenstein on Language
3 - Philosophy of Language in the Twentieth Century
4 - Psychologism
5 - Language as Internal
6 - Languages and Idiolects: Their Language and Ours
7 - Rule-Following, Meaning, and Normativity
8 - Naturalist Theories of Meaning
9 - Truth and Meaning
10 - Meaning Holism
11 - Indeterminacy of Translation
12 - Intention-Based Semantics
13 - Propositional Content
14 - Conceptual Role Semantics
15 - Semantic Internalism and Externalism
16 - Relevance Theory
17 - The Distinction between Semantics and Pragmatics
18 - The Essence of Reference
19 - Predicate Reference
20 - Rigidity
21 - Names and Natural Kind Terms
22 - What Does it Take to Refer?
23 - Formal Semantics
24 - Two-Dimensional Semantics
25 - Deflationism
26 - Compositionality
27 - Opacity
28 - Tense
29 - Plurals
30 - The Pragmatics of the Logical Constants
31 - Quantifiers
32 - Logical Form and LF
33 - Metaphor
34 - Semantics for Non-Declaratives
35 - Speech Acts and Performatives
36 - Meaning and Reference
37 - What I Know When I Know a Language
38 - Realism and Antirealism
39 - Triangulation
40 - Shared Content
41 - The Perils and Pleasures of Interpretation