* Brings together important new papers by many of the most distinguished philosophers of language * Takes up some of the central issues in the field in recent years * Includes some of the best cutting-edge work in philosophy of language.

1. Things and Their Aspects: NICHOLAS ASHER. 2. Now You Know Who Hong Oak Yun Is: DAVID BRAUN. 3. Quotation, Context Sensitivity, Signs and Expressions: HERMAN CAPPELEN AND ERNIE LEPORE. 4. Descriptions with Adverbs of Quantification: DELIA GRAFF FARA. 5. MacFarlane on Relative Truth: RICHARD G. HECK, JR. 6. Sententialism: The Thesis that Complement Clauses Refer to Themselves: JAMES HIGGINBOTHAM. 7. Soames on Descriptive Reference-Fixing: ROBIN JESHION. 8. Singular Terms, Reference and Methodology in Semantics: JEFFREY C. KING. 9. From Sherlock and Buffy to Klingon and Norrathian Platinum Pieces: Pretense, Contextalism, and the Myth of Fiction: PETER LUDLOW. 10. The Meaning of “Water”: An Unsolved Problem: WILLIAM G. LYCAN. 11. “Knowledge of Language and Linguistic Competence”: ROBERT J. MATTHEWS. 12. Interpreting Concatenation and Concatenates: PAUL M. PIETROSKI. 13. Understanding as Immersion: R. M. SAINSBURY. 14. Terms in Bondage: NATHAN SALMON. 15. Two Perspectives on Knowledge of Language: STEPHEN SCHIFFER. 16. The Philosophical Significance of the Kripkean Necessary Aposteriori: SCOTT SOAMES. 17. Indicative versus Subjunctive Conditionals, Congruential versus Non-Hyperintensional Contexts: TIMOTHY WILLIAMSON. Symposium. 1. Self-Reflexive Thoughts: GILBERT HARMAN. 2. on Self Referential Thoughts: CHRISTOPHER S. HILL Harman