January 15, Russell’s Theory of Descriptions, the Proposition Theory of meaning, truth-conditions; Russell, “On Denoting” and “Descriptions”:
 

January 22, “Use” theories of meaning; Waismann, excerpt from The Principles of Linguistic Philosophy; Wittgenstein, excerpts from Philosophical Investigations:  Charles Olbert.
 

January 29, The Verification Theory; Hempel, “Empiricist Criteria of Cognitive Significance: Problems and Changes”:
 

February 5, Davidson’s Truth-Condition theory of meaning; Davidson, “Truth and Meaning”; Lycan, Philosophy of Language, Ch. 9:
 

February 12, The Intensional Truth-Condition theory:
 
 
 

February 19, Implicature, conversational and conventional; Grice, “Logic and Conversation”:
 

February 26, Criticisms of Grice’s account; Davis, Implicature, Ch. 3:
 

March 5, Further criticisms of Grice, Relevance theory; Carston, Thoughts and Utterances, pp. 94-152:
 

March 19, “Explicature”:
 

March 26, Performative utterances and illocutionary force; Austin, “Performative Utterances”; selections from How to Do Things with Words:
 

April 2, Indirect force; Searle, “Indirect Speech Acts”:
 

April 16, Metaphor, Davidson’s skeptical view; Davidson, “What Metaphors Mean”:  Melissa Couchon.
 

April 23, Searle’s theory of metaphor; Searle, “Metaphor”: Derick Mattern.
 

April 30, The Analogical theory; Kittay, selections from Metaphor: Its Cognitive Force and Linguistic Structure:  Charlotte Stewart.