PRELIMINARY READING LIST:
Campbell, John. 1982. ‘Knowledge and Understanding’, Philosophical Quarterly 32: 17-34.
Chomsky, Noam. 1986. Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin and Use. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger. [Chapter 1]
Dummett, Michael. 1978 ’What do I Know when I Know a Language?’, presented at the Centenary Celebrations, Stockholm University. Printed as Essay 3 in his The Seas of Language (Oxford: Clarendon Press).
. 1991. ‘Meaning, Knowledge, and Understanding’ (Chap. 4 of his The Logical Basis of Metaphysics.)
Hornsby, Jennifer. 2007. ‘Semantic Knowledge and Practical Knowledge’. Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 79:1, 107–130, 2005
Fricker, Elisabeth. 2003. ‘Understanding and Knowledge of What is Said’, in Epistemology of Language, ed. Alex Barber (Oxford: Clarendon Press).
Larson, Richard and Segal, Gabriel. 1995. Knowledge of Meaning: An Introduction to Semantic Theory (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press). [Chapter 1 and 2]
Levelt, Willem. 1989. Speaking: From Intention to Articulation. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
Pettit, Dean. 2002, ‘Why Knowledge is Unnecessary for Understanding Language’, Mind 111, 519-550.
Soames, Scott. 1989. ‘Semantics and Semantic Competence’, Philosophical Perspectives 3: 575-596.
Stanley, Jason. 2007. ‘Hornsby on the Phenomenology of Speech’. Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 79:1, 131-145, 2005
FURTHER CANDIDATES FOR THE READING LIST, AND SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS:
Anthony, Louise. 1997. ‘Meaning and Semantic Knowledge’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 71: 177-207.
Collins, John. 2004. ‘Faculty Disputes’, Mind and Language 19: 505-33.
Fisher, John A. 1974. ‘Knowledge of Rules’ The Review of Metaphysics XXVIII, 237-260.
1980. ‘Understanding, Linguistic Competence and Knowledge’, The Philosophical Forum XII: 3 – 19.
Franklin, R.L. 1981. ‘Knowledge, Belief and Understanding’, Philosophical Quarterly 81: 193-208.
Higginbotham, James. 1988. ‘Is Semantics Necessary?’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 87: 219 - 241.
_. 1995. ‘The Place of Natural Language’, in On Quine, eds. P. Leonardi and M. Santambrogio (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
_. 2000. ‘A Perspective on Truth and Meaning’ in The Philosophy of Donald Davidson (Library of Living Philosophers), ed. L.E. Hahn (Chicago, Il.: Open Court Publishing Co.).
Hunter, David. 1998. ‘Belief and Understanding’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 58: 559-580.
Levelt, Willem J.M., Ardi Roelofs and Antje S. Meyer. 1999. ‘A theory of lexical access in speech production’. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 22, 1-75.
Longworth, Guy. ‘Linguistic Understanding and Knowledge’, Nous.
Matthews, Robert J. 2003 ‘Does Linguistic Competence Require Knowledge of Language?’, in Epistemology of Language, ed. Alex Barber (Oxford: Clarendon Press).
Rumfitt, Ian. 1995. ‘Truth-Conditions and Communication’, Mind 104: 827-62.
Smith, Barry C. 2006. ‘What I Know When I Know A Language’.
Wright, Crispin. 1986. ‘Theories of Meaning and Speaker’s Knowledge’, in his Realism, Meaning and Truth (Oxford:Blackwell).
Truth-conditional Semantics
Lepore, Ernest and Kirk Ludwig. ‘Truth-Theoretic Semantics: Basic Framework’ [Chap. 1 in Donald Davidson’s Truth-Theoretic Semantics. Clarendon Press: Oxford]
Taylor, Kenneth. 1998. Truth and Meaning. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers. [Chap. III, ‘Truth and Meaning: The Tarskian Paradigm’]
Wiggins, David. 1997. ‘Meaning and truth conditions: from Frege’s grand design to Davidson’s’, in A Companion to the Philosophy of Language, eds. Bob Hale and Crispin Wright (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers).
Dummett, Michael. ‘What is a Theory of Meaning? (II)’ Reprinted in his The Seas of Language (Oxford: Clarendon Press).
The Concept of Knowledge
Davies, Martin. . ‘Tacit Knowledge, and the structure of thought and language’
_. . ‘Knowledge (Explicit and Implicit): Philosophical Aspects’.
Hyman, John. 1999. ‘How Knowledge Works’, The Philosophical Quarterly 49: 433-451
Ryle, Gilbert. 1949. The Concept of Mind (London: Hutchinson). [Chapter 2, ‘Knowing How and Knowing That’]
Snowdon, Paul. 2004. ‘Knowing How and Knowing That: A Distinction Reconsidered’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 104: 229-243.
Stanley, Jason and Williamson, Timothy. 2001. ‘Knowing How’, Journal of Philosophy 98: 411-44.
Williamson, Timothy. 2000. Knowledge and its Limits (Oxford:Oxford University Press). [Introduction and Chapter 1]
Agency and Action
Davidson, Donald. . ‘Agency’ (reprinted in his Essays on Actions and Events)
Hornsby, Jennifer. 1980. Actions (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul).
O’Brien, Lucy. 2007. Self-Knowing Agents (Oxford: OUP). [Chapter 8, ‘What are Actions?’ and Chapter 9, ‘On Knowing One’s Own Actions’.]
Anscombe’s conception of practical knowledge
Falvey, Kevin. 2001. ‘Knowledge in Intention’, Philosophical Studies 99, 21-44.
Moran, Richard. 2004, ‘Anscombe on “Practical Knowledge”’, in Agency and Action, eds. John Hyman and Helen Steward (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).