Reading List

A chronological list of all the stuff I've read (or should have read) for PHI7979, 80 Spring 2006 -- ???

[the strings enclosed in brackets at the beginning who assigned or suggested the piece; an asterisk at the end means I've read it]

(1) [kl] James Higginbotham's "Sententialism: The Thesis that Complement Clauses Refer to Themselves" *

(2) [kl] Kirk Ludwig's & Greg Ray's "Semantics for Opaque Contexts" *

(3) [kl] Kirk Ludwig's "A Conservative Modal Semantics with Applications to de re Nececssities and Arguments for Coincident Entities" (two versions) *, *

(4) [kl] David Kaplan's "Quantifying In" *

(5) [kl] David Kaplan's "Opacity" *

(6) [kl] Kit Fine's "Reference, Essence and Identity" (first chapter of Modality and Tense) *

(7) [kl] Kit Fine's "The Problem of De Re Modality" (second chapter of Modality and Tense) *

(8) [kl] Kit Fine's "Quine on Quantifying In" (third chapter of Modality and Tense)

(9) [kl] Kathrin Koslicki's "The Semantics of Mass Predicates" (added 12 March 2006) *

(10) [is] David Wiggins' "The De Re 'Must': a note on the Logical Form of Essentialist Claims" (added 12 March 2006)

(11) [jb] Saul Kripke's "Is There a Problem about Substitutional Quantification?" (added 12 March 2006)

(12) [is] Scott Shalkowski's "The Ontological Ground for Alethic Modality" (added 12 March 2006) *

(13) [jb] Amie Thomasson's "Modal Conceptualism: A Clarification and Defense" (added 15 March 2006) *

(14) [jb] W.V.O. Quine's "Notes on Existence and Necessity" (added 10 March 2006) *

(15) [jb] Alan Sidelle's Necessity, Essence and Individuation: A Defense of Conventionalism (added 15 March 2006)

(16) [jb] W.V.O. Quine's "Three Grades of Modal Involvment" (added 10 March 2006)

(17) [kl] Greg Ray's "De Re Modality: Lessons from Quine" (added 15 March 2006)

(18) [kl] Carnap's Meaning and Necessity (added 16 March 2006) *

(19) [kl] W.V.O. Quine's "Reference and Modality" (added 10 March 2006)

(20) [kl] Gareth Evans' "A Causal Theory of Names" (added 12 April 2006)

(21) [jb] relevant sections (part I) of LePore's and Ludwig's "Donald Davidson Meaning, Truth, Language and Reality" (added 12 April 2006)

(22) [jb] Ludwig's "What is the Role of a Truth Theory in a Meaning Theory?" (added 12 April 2006)

(23) [jb] Chalmers' "The Foundations of Two-Dimensional Semantics" (added 12 April 2006)

(24) [jb] relevant sections of David Lewis' On the Plurality of Worlds (added 12 April 2006)

(25) [jb] Michael Dummet's "What is a Theory of Meaning?" (added on 13 April 2006)

(26) [jb] Peter Lasersohn's "Compositional Interpretation in which the meanings of the complex are not computable from the meanings of their parts" (added on 17 April 2006)

(27) [kl] Quine's "Truth by Convention" (added on 18 April 2006)

(28) [kl] Ted Sider's "Reductive Theories of Modality" (added on 18 April 2006)

(29) [kl] Ted Sider's draft "Reducing Modality" (added on 18 April 2006)