Introduction to Philosophy of Language

Lecture Notes

LEC #	TOPICS	LECTURE NOTES
1	Introduction	(PDF)
2	Meaning and reference	(PDF)
3	Descriptions	(PDF)
4	Names and descriptions	(PDF)
5	Direct reference	(PDF)
6	What is meaning?	(PDF)
7	Empiricist theories	(PDF)
8	Psychological theories	(PDF)
9	Truth-conditional theories	(PDF)
10	Context sensitivity	(PDF)
11	The essential indexical	(PDF)
12	The Kripkenstein paradox	(PDF)
13	Naturalistic reduction	(PDF)
14	Speech acts	(PDF)
15	Illocutionary force	(PDF)
16	Presupposition	(PDF)
17	Assertion	(PDF)
18	Implicature	(PDF)
19	Attitudes, the hidden indexical theory	(PDF)
20	Attitudes, the implicature theory	(PDF)
21	Attitudes, the pragmatic theory	(PDF)
22	Non-literal speech	(PDF)
23	Making believe
24	Semantic pretense and attitude ascriptions	(PDF)
25	Pragmatic pretense and Frege problems	(PDF)
26	Humpty Dumpty, malaprop, etc.