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Meaning and truth : essential readings in modern semantics

Author: Jay L Garfield; Murray Kiteley
Publisher: New York : Paragon House, 1991.
Series: Paragon issues in philosophy.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jay L Garfield; Murray Kiteley
ISBN: 1557783004 9781557783004
OCLC Number: 21030116
Description: xxviii, 637 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Of names and propositions / John Stuart Mill --
On sense and nominatum / Gottlob Frege --
The semantic concept of truth and the foundations of semantics / Alfred Tarski --
On denoting / Bertrand Russell --
On referring / P.F. Strawson --
Mr. Strawson on referring / Bertrand Russell --
Meaning and necessity / Rudolf Carnap --
Reference and definite descriptions / Keith Donnellan --
Speaker's reference and semantic reference / Saul Kripke --
Presupposition and two-dimensional logic / Merrie Bergmann --
Dthat ; On the logic of demonstratives / David Kaplan - - Truth and meaning / Donald Davidson --
Tarski's theory of truth / Hartry Field --
Physicalism and primitive denotation : Field on Tarski / John McDowell. Quantifiers and propositional attitudes / W.V.O. Quine --
On saying that / Donald Davidson --
An overview of Montague semantics / Steven Weisler --
Subjectivity's bailiwick and the person of its bailiff / Murray Kiteley --
Two types of quantifiers / Norbert Hornstein --
A logical theory of verb-phrase deletion / Ivan A. Sag --
Structured meanings ; Structural amnbiguity / Max Cresswell --
Propositions / Robert Stalnaker --
Possible worlds / David Lewis --
Actualism and possible worlds / Alvin Plantinga --
The trouble with possible worlds / William Lycan --
On specificity / Annabel Cormack and Ruth Kempson --
Metaphorese / Harold Skulsky --
Metaphorical assertions / Merrie Bergmann --
The problem of the essential indexical / John Perry.
Series Title: Paragon issues in philosophy.
Responsibility: Jay L. Garfield & Murray Kiteley [editors].

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