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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| Preface to the First Edition | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Philosophy of Language | |
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| What is the Problem? | |
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| What is a Theory of Language? | |
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| The Menu | |
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| Meaning | |
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| Truth and reference | |
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| Meaning and Truth | |
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| Explaining Truth Conditions | |
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| Nonindicatives | |
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| Explaining Structure | |
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| Are Referential Roles Enough? | |
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| Enter Senses | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| Description Theories of Reference: Names | |
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| The Classical Description Theory | |
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| The Modern Description Theory | |
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| Ignorance and Error | |
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| Reference Borrowing | |
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| Rejecting Description Theories | |
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| A Causal Theory of Reference: Names | |
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| A Causal Theory | |
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| Virtues of the Causal Theory | |
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| Developing the Theory | |
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| Direct Reference | |
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| The Qua-Problem | |
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| Theories of Reference: Other Terms | |
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| Description Theories of Natural Kind Terms | |
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| A Causal Theory of Natural Kind Terms | |
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| The Qua-Problem | |
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| Other Kind Terms | |
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| Hybrid Theories | |
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| Analyticity, Apriority, and Necessity | |
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| Donnellan's Distinction | |
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| Designational Terms | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| Syntactic Structure | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Some Reasons for Structure | |
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| Linguistic Categories | |
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| 6.4 | |
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| Language and Mind | |
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| Thought and Meaning | |
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| Thoughts as Inner Representations | |
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| The Language-of -Thought Hypothesis | |
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| A Public Language of Thought or "Mentalese"? | |
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| Grice's Theory of Meaning | |
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| Avoiding the Explanatory Circle | |
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| The Origins of Language | |
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| Indicator and Teleological Semantics | |
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| Linguistic Competence | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Conflation of Symbols and Competence | |
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| Two Proposals on the Psychological Reality of Syntactic Rules | |
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| Knowledge-How Versus Knowledge-That | |
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| Built-In Versus Represented Rules | |
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| Cartesian Intuitions | |
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| "The Only Theory in Town" | |
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| Are Syntactic Rules Built in Processing-Rules? | |
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| Linguistic Competence as a Translation Ability | |
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| Chomskyan nativism | |
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| Defending Representation | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Deflationism | |
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| Functional-Role Semantics and "Narrow" Meanings | |
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| The Two-Factor Theory | |
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| Kripke's Skeptical Argument | |
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| Linguistic Relativity: | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Tyranny of Vocabulary | |
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| The Tyranny of Syntax | |
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| The Scientific Whorfians | |
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| The Rejection of Scientific Whorfianism | |
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| Language and Realism | |
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| Verification | |
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| Realism | |
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| Logical Positivism and the Elimination of the Realism Dispute | |
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| Dummett and the Misidentification of the Realism Dispute | |
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| Verificationism | |
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| Worldmaking | |
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| Kant | |
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| Whorfian Constructivism | |
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| Scientific Constructivism | |
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| The Renegade Putnam | |
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| Structuralism | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Saussure's Linguistics | |
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| The Rejection of Reference | |
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| The Rejection of Realism | |
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| Language and Philosophy | |
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| First Philosophy | |
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| Philosophy Naturalized | |
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| Traditional First Philosophy; the One-Over Many Problem | |
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| The Linguistic Turn: Ordinary Language Philosophy | |
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| The Linguistic Turn: Conceptual Analysis | |
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| Rational Psychology | |
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| Rational Psychology Versus Protoscience | |
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| Dennett | |
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| Davidson | |
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| Principles of Charity | |
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| Against Charity | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
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| indicates chapters and sections which are difficult and probably best ignored in an initial approach | |