Original papers by leading international authors address the most important problem in the philosophy of language, the question of how to assess the prospects of developing a tenable theory of meaning, given the influential sceptical attacks mounted against the concept of meaning by Willard Van Quine and Saul Kripke and their adherents in particular. Thus the texts attempt to answer the fundamental questions - of whether there are meanings, and, if there are, of what they are and of the form a serious philosophical theory of meaning should take.

Richard Schantz, University of Siegen, Germany.

Contributors:

Joseph Almog, William Alston, Robert Cummins / Martin Roth, Michael Devitt, Graeme Forbes, Samuel Guttenplan, James Higginbotham, Wilfrid Hodges, Terence Horgan / George Graham, Jennifer Hornsby, Paul Horwich, Ernest LePore / Jeff Pelletier, Guy Longworth, William Lycan, Alexander Miller, Ruth Garrett Millikan, Colin McGinn, Dougls Patterson, Jaroslav Peregrin, Georges Rey, Mark Sainsbury, Nathan Salmon, Gabriel Sandu, Richard Schantz, Stephen Schiffer, John R. Searle, Gabriel Segal, Patrick Suppes, Howard Wettstein, Ede Zimmermann.