PHIL2121
Module Reading List
Dr Jessica Keiser
J.Keiser@leeds.ac.uk
Tutor information is taken from the Module Catalogue
Linguistic Convention
Week 15: Introduction
Week 15: David Lewis, “Languages and Language” In Philosophical Papers, Volume 1, Chapter 11. (Oxford University Press)
Semantic Externalism
Week 16: Hilary Putnam, “The Meaning of Meaning”, Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science. pp. 581-588. Available online.
Week 16: Dale Spender Man Made Language, pp. 7-33
Week 17: Salim & Smitherman, Articulate while Black : Barack Obama, language, and race in the U.S. ISBN: 9780199812981 (pbk.) : No price; 9780199812967 (hbk.) : No price; 0199812969 (hbk.) : No price; 0199812985 (pbk.) : No price, Chapter 2
Speech Acts
Week 17; L. Austin, How to do Things with Words, Lectures I & III
Week 18: Rae Langton “Speech acts and unspeakable acts” Sexual solipsism : philosophical essays on pornography and objectification ISBN: 9780199551453 No price (pbk.); 9780199247066 £50.00 (cased); 0199247064 £50.00 (cased); 0199551456 No price (pbk.)
Indirect speech
Week 18: H.P. Grice, "Meaning", but only pages 377-378 (up to "the nonnnatural sense or senses") and 381-384 (from "I will now..." to "This seems to involve a reflexive paradox"). Available from: http://semantics.uchicago.edu/kennedy/classes/f09/semprag1/grice57.pdf
H.P. Grice, “Logic and Conversation” Available from: http://lefft.xyz/psycholingAU16/readings/grice1975-logic-and-conversation.pdf
Week 20: Robert Stalnaker, "Assertion" Syntax and Semantics (New York Academic Press) 9:315-332.
Week 20: Elisabeth Camp, “Insinuation, Common Ground, and the Conversational Record”, sections 1-2 only Available from: http://rci.rutgers.edu/~emc233/Papers/Camp.Insinuation.pdf
Week 21: Justin Khoo, "Code Words in Political Discourse", Philosophical Topics 45 (2):33-64.
Slurs and the Semantic/Pragmatics Divide
Week 21: Luvel Anderson & Ernest Lepore, “Slurring Words” Noûs. ISSN: 0029-4624 47 (1):25-48 (2013)
Week 23: Renee Bollinger, “The Pragmatics of Slurs” Noûs. ISSN: 0029-4624, 49(1) 1 (2015)
Testimony
Week 23: Elizabeth Fricker, “Second-Hand Knowledge” Philosophy and phenomenological research. ISSN: 0031-8205 73 (3):592–618 (2006)
Week 24: Miranda Fricker, Epistemic Injustice (pp.17-29, 54-59)
Week 24: Luvell Anderson, "Epistemic Injustice and the Philosophy of Race," Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Injustice (pp. 138-148)
Language Loss
Week 25: Ethan Nowak, "Language Loss and Illocutionary Silencing" Mind 129 (515):831-865.
Week 25: Revision
8/5 Revision
This list was last updated on 24/01/2022