Course handouts

The Referential theory

"Five Puzzles About Singular Terms"

"A Few More Words on Strawson on Russell"

"On the Question of the 'Actual' Referent"

"Some Flaws In Searle’s Theory Of Proper Names"

"A Further Argument for the Rigidity of Proper Names"

Textbook excerpt on problems for the Causal-Historical Theory

"Objections to the `Indexical' View Recapitulated"

"Use theories: Objections and Replies"

"Some objections to the Verification theory of meaning"

"The four obstacles to Grice's Stage I"; and textbook excerpt on Grice's strategy for Stage I

"Davidson and the Liar"

"Recapitulation of Strawson vs. Davidson"

"Davidson on Malapropisms"
 

Other documents

The best literary example I know of Donnellan's distinction

Kripke's Modal Objection and Dummett's reply

An excerpt from WGL's textbook, on Millianism (there called "Direct Reference")

"Fiction and Essence," Chapter Six of WGL's Modality and Meaning (1994).

An excerpt from WGL's textbook, on deixis and how a Truth-Condition theorist should handle it.

Spooner and spoonerisms