Philosophical essays - Soames, Scott (Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2009)
v. 2. The philosophical significance of language-- Pt. 1 Reference, propositions, and propositional attitudes -- Direct reference, propositional attitudes, and semantic content -- Why propositions can't be sets of truth-supporting circumstances -- Belief and mental representation -- Attitudes and anaphora -- Pt. 2. Modality -- The modal argument: wide scope and rigidified descriptions -- The philosophical significance of the Kripkean necessary a posteriori -- Knowledge of manifest natural kinds -- Understanding assertion -- Ambitious two-dimensionalism -- Actually -- Pt. 3. Truth and vagueness -- What is a theory of truth? -- Understanding deflationism -- Higher-order vagueness for partially defined predicates -- The possibility of partial definition -- Pt. 4. . 4. Kripke, Wittgenstein, and following a rule -- Skepticism about meaning: indeterminancy, normativity, and the rule-following paradox -- Facts, truth conditions, and the skeptical solution to the rule-following paradox.
Includes bibliographical references and index
Keywords: Language and languages -- Philosophy; Linguistics; Semantics