Cover -- Philosophy for Linguists: An Introduction -- Copyright -- dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Philosophy -- The Linguistics -- Overview -- Further Reading -- 1. Words and Things -- Introduction -- Classical Philosophy -- The British Empiricists -- Names -- Use and Mention -- Mill on Direct Reference -- Frege on Sense and Reference -- Russell on Descriptions -- Kripke on Naming -- Words and Things in Linguistics -- Further Reading -- 2. Propositions and Logic -- Introduction -- Propositions -- Formal Logic -- Propositional Logic -- Predicate Logic -- Entailment and Presupposition -- Frege on Logical Presupposition -- Russell on Denoting -- Strawson on Referring -- Pragmatic Presupposition -- Logic and Linguistics -- Further Reading -- 3. Truth and Reality -- Introduction -- Truth Conditions -- Analytic and Synthetic Sentences -- Verification -- Truth Theories -- Possible Worlds -- Modality -- Counterfactuals -- Montague Grammar -- Linguistic Semantics -- Further Reading -- 4. Speakers and Hearers -- Introduction -- Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Language -- Ordinary Language Philosophy -- Speech Acts -- Performatives -- Illocutionary Force -- Searle on Speech Acts -- Meaning and Intention -- Conversational Implicature -- Natural Language and Logic -- The Co-operative Principle -- Flouting the Maxims -- Pragmatics -- Further Reading -- 5. Language and Mind -- Introduction -- Signs and Structures -- Linguistic Determinism -- Empiricism -- Bloomfield -- Quine -- The Innateness Hypothesis -- Anti-nativism -- The Language Faculty -- Knowledge and Use of Language -- Empiricist and Mentalist Linguistics -- Further Reading -- Glossary -- Notes -- References -- Index -- implicature.