Philosophical essays, Volume 1, Natural language what it means and how we use it - Soames, Scott (Princeton University Press, 2009)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction -- pt. 1. Presupposition -- A projection problem for speaker presupposition -- Language and linguistic competence -- p. 2. Linguistics and psychology -- Semantics and psychology -- Semantics and semantic competence -- The necessity argument -- Truth, meaning, and understanding -- Truth and meaning in perspective -- pt. 3. Semantics and pragmatics -- Naming and asserting -- The gap between meaning and assertion : why what we literally say often differs from what our words literally mean -- Drawing the line between meaning and implicaturem and relating both to assertion -- pt. 4. Descriptions -- Incomplete definite descriptions -- Donnellan's referential/attributive distinction -- Why incomplete descriptions don't refute Russell's theory of descriptions -- pt. 5. Meaning and use : lessons for legal interpretation -- Interpreting legal texts : what is and what is not special about the law