On Referents and Reference Fixing

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. I Meaning and Reference
5. The Puzzle That Never Was—Referential Mechanics 21
6. Reference and Meaning 35
7. Still Against Direct Reference 61
8. On Meaning, Meaning and Meaning 85
9. On Referents and Reference Fixing 107
10. II Truth-theoretic Semantics
11. On Some Examples of Chomsky’s 121
12. Truth, Meaning and Contextualism 143
13. Expression, Truth, Predication, and Context: Two Perspectives 171
14. Prospects for a Truth-conditional Account of Standing Meaning 195
15. A Very Large Fly in the Ointment: Davidsonian Truth Theory Contextualized 223
16. From Truth Conditions to Structured Propositions 259
17. Five Flies in the Ointment: Some Challenges for Traditional Semantic Theory 287
18. III Meaning Skepticism
19. Against Meaning-Skepticism 311
20. Phenomenal Intentionality and Content Determinacy 321
21. Semantic Realism and the Argument from Motivational Internalism 345
22. IV The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Meaning and Content
23. Meaning and Content in Cognitive Science 365
24. Knowledge of Meaning and Epistemic Interdependence 383
25. Meaning and Ontology 399
26. Matter and Meaning 435
27. Meaning, Communication and Knowledge by Testimony 449
28. Semantics Without Meanings? Sellarsian “Patterned Governed Behavior” and the Space of Meaningfulness 479
29. Externalism and Inexistence in Early Content 503
30. Propositions, What Are They Good For? 531
31. Meaning as a Biological and Social Phenomenon 553
32. Three Kinds of Meanings 567
33. V Formal Semantics
34. Requirements on a Theory of Sentence and Word Meanings 583
35. Quantification and Anaphora in Natural Language 609
36. Equivalence of Semantic Theories 629
37. Notes on Contributors 651
38. Index of Names 657
39. Index of Subjects 663