Readings in the
Philosophy of Language

The standard teaching anthology of its generation, edited by Jay F. Rosenberg and Charles Travis. Copyright 1971 Prentice-Hall; 13-759332-5; LC 70-132170. It opens on ANALYTICITY with C. I. Lewis on the modes of meaning, Keith Donnellan, HILARY PUTNAM’s “It Ain’t Necessarily So”, W. V. O. QUINE’s “Two Dogmas of Empiricism” and the GRICE and STRAWSON reply “In Defense of a Dogma” — four of the most reprinted papers in twentieth-century philosophy, sitting together in sequence. Further sections cover reference, propositions, meaning and methodology.