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A selection of
papers by Mitchell S. Green. (Large collection posted on his
website--scroll down for the links.)
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A
selection of papers by Stephen Schiffer. (Large collection
posted on his website.)
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A selection of papers by Mark Sainsbury. (Large collection
posted on his website.)
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A
selection of papers by John Perry. (A very large selection
posted on his website.)
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Comparing
Frege and Russell Kent Bach draws attention to several distinctions
between the views of Frege and Russell in this short article.
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Designation, by
Michael Devitt (yes, the entire book!) (Very nice.)
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Hacker
on a Private Language Argument A critique by
Philip H. Thonemann of an account by Hacker of the use Wittgenstein makes of
ostension in his private language argument.
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On
the Difficulty of Imagining A One Person Language Article by Lars
Hertzberg. Discusses a distinction between what are called the community
view of the private language argument and the criterion view, suggesting a
more fruitful point of view from which to regard this controversy.
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Outline
of the Private Language Argument By
Philip Thonemann.
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Private
language Entry from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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Wittgenstein
on Private Language and Private Mental Objects A brief outline by Dale
Jacquette.
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Wittgenstein
on Rules and Private Language The `ultimate homepage' by John Humphrey.
A comprehensive and critical survey of Kripke's book by the same name. Its
aim seems to be to finish off Kripke's position in that work.
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Wittgenstein
sans The Private Language Argument Stephen Thornton argues that the
private language argument is less important to Wittgenstein's broad
conclusions in the Investigations than is commonly taken to be the case.
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Wittgenstein's
`Private Language' Argument Undergraduate essay by Roger Bishop Jones
commenting upon the PLA by attention to sections 243 to 264.
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The
Metaphysics of Words Article by Roy Sorensen, arguing that indeterminacy
of meaning is deadly for semantics.
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Critical
Thinking and the Realism/Anti-realism Debate
Article by Soraj Hongladarom.
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Holism
in Artificial Intelligence? Argues against the idea that research in AI
supposes meaning holism, and against classifying Wittgenstein as a meaning
holist. By Carlo Penco.
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Holistic
Semantics Forum Site arguing for broad accounts of of meaning, which
have pragmatic and contextual aspects at their centre. Regularly publishes
essays, and invites readers to participate in its ongoing debate.
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Introduction
to Semantics Introductory article by Richard Spencer-Smith which
explains Frege's distinction between sense and reference.
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Meaning
Realism In this article Manuel Liz argues that meaning realism and the
rejection of holism are compatible even if one rejects the
analytic/synthetic division.
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On
Denoting Online text of Russell's 1905 paper.
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Propositional
Attitude Reports Explores semantic accounts of propositional attitude
reports, and some of the theories developed to deal with Frege's puzzle.
From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Thomas J. McKay.
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A
Puzzle about Belief Reports By Kent Bach.
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Review
of Ontological Relativity Undergraduate review of Quine's work by
Michael Keeley.
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Julius
Caesar and the Number 2 Article discussing Frege's work on the nature of
numbers and singular terms.
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logical
constructions Bertrand Russell referred to several different definitions
and philosophical analyses as providing "logical constructions" of
certain entities and expressions. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Bernard
Linsky.
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Logical
Form Introduction to logical form, surface and deep meaning. From the
Stanford Encyclopedia, by Paul M. Pietroski.
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Objective
and Cognitive Context Discusses difference between objective context,
maintained by Kaplan and Lewis, and cognitive context, maintained by
McCarthy and Giunchiglia. By Carlo Penco.
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Sometimes
a Great Notion Review by Kent Bach of Mark Crimmins' book `Talk about
Beliefs'. The discussion focuses on the property of semantic innocence,
that the meaning of a sentence should not change with its cognitive context.
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Structured
Propositions To say that propositions are structured is to say that they
are complex entities, entities having parts or constituents. From the
Stanford Encyclopedia, by Jeffrey C. King.
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Tips
on Translating English into First-Order Logic An introductory guide by
Peter Suber.
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Two
Types of Philosophical Analysis Article by Arkadiusz Gut, presented at
the 20th World Congress in Philosophy.
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What
is a Philosophical Analysis? An examination by Jeffrey C. King which
asks: What is analyzed philosophically? What is an analysis and what are its
constituents? What distinguishes philosophical from scientific analysis?
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Existence
and Propositional Attitudes: A Fregean Analysis by Leila Haaparanta
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Aspects
of a Theory of Singular Reference William Greenberg's 1982 UCLA
dissertation.
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"The
Paradox
of
Identity"
by
William
Greenberg.
Frege's
problem
is
approached
from
the
standpoint
of
an
ontology
of
structured
individuals.
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Brandom's
solution to Kripke's puzzle Frege's example of Hesperus and Phosphorous
is widely held to defeat Millian theories of meaning. Kripke has devised an
alternate puzzle that seems to show that the same problem exists in Fregean
accounts. Here Carl Penco discusses Brandom's resolution of this paradox.
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Fodor
On Frege Cases Article by Murat Aydede and Philip Robbins. Subtitled
`Are Frege Cases Exceptions to Intentional Generalizations?'
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On
Naming and Possibility in Kripke and in the Tractatus Article by María
Cerezo, presented at the 20th World Congress of Philosophy.
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On
the Model Theory of Knowledge An essay by John McCarthy on the use of
model theory, with a bias towards knowledge representation. Strong on Kripke
models.
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Possible
Worlds: A Critical Analysis By Jaroslaw Peregrin.
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The
Reference of Theoretical Terms Article by Renate Duerr, presented at the
20th World Congress of Philosophy.
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Singular
Propositions Singular propositions (also called `Russellian
propositions') are propositions that are about a particular object or
individual in virtue of having the object or individual as a constituent of
the proposition. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by G. W. Fitch.
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Singular
Propositions and Modes of Presentation Article by João Branquinho
critical of Millian Semantics.
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The Theory
of Abstract Objects Web resource provided by Edward Zalta, centering
upon his `Principia Metaphysica', a general calculus for the expression of
theories of abstract objects. Includes a tutorial section.
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A
Unified Theory of Names Article by John Justice, presented at the 20th
World Congress of Philosophy.
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Speech
Acts Entry for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, by Kent Bach.
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History
of Speech Act Theory Survey article by Barry Smith, 1990.
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Meaning
and Speech Act Theory Short article by Lamont Johnson, Buffalo
University.
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Performative-Constative
Revisited: The Genetics of Austin's Theory of Speech Acts Article by
Richard van Oort, Department of English and Comparative Literature,
University of California at Irvine.
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Speech
Acts Article for an introductory linguistics course at the University of
Western Australia.
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Conditions
on Understanding Language Article by Ernest Lepore. Discusses the nature
of language competence.
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Philosophy
and Language Survey article at Sophie's World.
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Philosophy
of Language in Classical China Historical overview by Chad Hansen of
interpretations of language in the major schools of philosophical thought in
classical China (up to the Han dynasty).
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Philosophy of
Language, World Congress Papers Proceedings of the 20th World Congress
of Philosophy, held at Boston University in 1998. Archive of contributed
papers in the subject area of Philosophy of Language. Provided by The
Paideia Archive.
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Pragmatism
and the Philosophy of Language Wide-ranging article by Danielle MacBeth.
From the Wilfrid Sellars' archive.
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Review
of Michael Beaney's `Frege: Making Sense' By Mitchell Green, to appear
in Mind.
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The
Sense Is Where You Find It Article by Lars Hertzberg, discussing the
significance of the distinction between sense and nonsense.
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Kripkenstein: Rule and Indeterminacy
By Xin Sheen Liu, of Syracuse University, presented at the 20th World Congress of Philosophy. Comparative approach, covering indeterminacy theses of Kripke, Wittgenstein and Quine.
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Understanding Quine's Theses of Indetermincy
By Nick
Bostrom.
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David Chalmer's List his online papers.
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Names
and Rigid Designation, By John Stanley
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Henry
Laycock's Home Page. (Contains links to a several papers--at
least two of which are in Philosophy of Language.)