Table of Contents

1: Introduction
2: Pseudo-Constraints on an Adequate Theory of Meaning
3: Meaning as Use
4: Truth
5: Reference
6: Implicit Definition, Analyticity, and A-priori Knowledge
7: The Composition of Meanings
8: Norms of Language
9: Quelling Quine's Qualms
10: A Straight Solution to Kripke's Sceptical Paradox
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Paul Horwich is Professor of Philosophy at University College London. He was previously Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Reviews

The remarkable clarity and ease of presentation make it ideal reading for students of philosophy and of the philosophy of language Years Work in English Studies An important book ... a thought-provoking challenge to the current orthodoxies surrounding meaning, one on which all advocates of formal semantics - indeed all those who want an answer to the question of what meaning is - will do well to reflect The Philosophical Review