Syllabus/achievement requirements

- David Lewis, “Languages and Language” (1975)

- Margaret Gilbert, “Agreements, Conventions, and Language” (1983)

{and/or John Hawthorne, “A Note on ‘Languages and Language’” (1990) and David Lewis, “Meaning Without Use: Reply to Hawthorne” (1992)}

- Donald Davidson, “Convention and Communication” (1984)

- Stephen Laurence, “A Chomskian Alternative to Convention-Based Semantics” (1996)

- Ruth Millikan, Language: A Biological Model (2005) (excerpts)

- Hilary Putnam, "The Meaning of 'Meaning'" (1975)

- John Hawthorne and Juhani Yli-Vakkuri, "Narrow Content" (unpublished book manuscript, approximately 250 pages)