A Companion to Philosophy of Language (Hardcover)

Written by an international assembly of leading philosophers, this volume provides a benchmark survey of contemporary, philosophy of language. as well as providing a synoptic view of the key issues, figures, concepts and debates, each essay makes new and original contributions to the on-going debate. Topics covered include rule following, modality, realism, indeterminacy of translation, inscrutability of reference, names and rigid designation, Davidson's program, meaning and verification, intention and convention, radical interpretation, tacit knowledge, metaphor, causal theories of semantics, objects and criteria of identity, theories of truth, force and pragmatics, essentialism, demonstratives, reference and necessity, identity, meaning and privacy of language, vagueness and the sorites paradox, holisms, propositional attitudes, analyticity.