On the Philosophy of Language
Preface. Introduction. 1. Meaning as Referring (Frege, Russell, Meinong and the Early Wittgenstein). 2. Meaning as Use (The Later Wittgenstein, Strawson, Austin and Searle). 3. Other Theories of Meaning (Verification, Truth Functional and Inferential Theories; Carnap, Tarski, and Davidson). 4. Descriptive and Causal Theories of Referring (Strawson, Searle, Kripke and Putnam). 5. Philosophy, Linguistics and Cognitive Science (Chomsky, Fodor and the Later Wittgenstein). 6. The Cipher or Paraphrastic Account of Conventional Meaning. Bibliography. Index.