Meaning and truth : essential readings in modern semantics / Jay L. Garfield & Murray Kiteley [editors]. - 1st ed. - New York : Paragon House, 1991. - xxviii, 637 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Paragon issues in philosophy . - Paragon issues in philosophy. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [629]-637).

Of names and propositions / John Stuart Mill -- On sense and nominatum / Gottlob Frege -- The semantic concept of truth and the foundations of semantics / Alfred Tarski -- On denoting / Bertrand Russell -- On referring / P.F. Strawson -- Mr. Strawson on referring / Bertrand Russell -- Meaning and necessity / Rudolf Carnap -- Reference and definite descriptions / Keith Donnellan -- Speaker's reference and semantic reference / Saul Kripke -- Presupposition and two-dimensional logic / Merrie Bergmann -- Dthat ; On the logic of demonstratives / David Kaplan - - Truth and meaning / Donald Davidson -- Tarski's theory of truth / Hartry Field -- Physicalism and primitive denotation : Field on Tarski / John McDowell. Quantifiers and propositional attitudes / W.V.O. Quine -- On saying that / Donald Davidson -- An overview of Montague semantics / Steven Weisler -- Subjectivity's bailiwick and the person of its bailiff / Murray Kiteley -- Two types of quantifiers / Norbert Hornstein -- A logical theory of verb-phrase deletion / Ivan A. Sag -- Structured meanings ; Structural amnbiguity / Max Cresswell -- Propositions / Robert Stalnaker -- Possible worlds / David Lewis -- Actualism and possible worlds / Alvin Plantinga -- The trouble with possible worlds / William Lycan -- On specificity / Annabel Cormack and Ruth Kempson -- Metaphorese / Harold Skulsky -- Metaphorical assertions / Merrie Bergmann -- The problem of the essential indexical / John Perry.

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