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Introduction to Philosophy of Language
Art: Raphael, Italian: Scuola di AteneThe School of Athenstitle…, 1509 · Public domain
- Instructor
- Prof. Stephen Yablo
- Term
- Fall 2011
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 36 other files · 2 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 24.251 Introduction to Philosophy of Language, Fall 2011, Prof. Stephen Yablo — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Lecture Notes
24 files
- Lecture 1 · Introduction Download
- Lecture 2 · Meaning and reference Download
- Lecture 3 · Descriptions Download
- Lecture 4 · Names and descriptions Download
- Lecture 5 · Direct reference Download
- Lecture 6 · What is meaning? Download
- Lecture 7 · Empiricist theories Download
- Lecture 8 · Psychological theories Download
- Lecture 9 · Truth-conditional theories Download
- Lecture 10 · Context sensitivity Download
- Lecture 11 · The essential indexical Download
- Lecture 12 · The Kripkenstein paradox Download
- Lecture 13 · Naturalistic reduction Download
- Lecture 14 · Speech acts Download
- Lecture 15 · Illocutionary force Download
- Lecture 16 · Presupposition Download
- Lecture 17 · Assertion Download
- Lecture 18 · Implicature Download
- Lecture 19 · Attitudes, the hidden indexical theory Download
- Lecture 20 · Attitudes, the implicature theory Download
- Lecture 21 · Attitudes, the pragmatic theory Download
- Lecture 22 · Non-literal speech Download
- Lecture 24 · Semantic pretense and attitude ascriptions Download
- Lecture 25 · Pragmatic pretense and Frege problems Download
Assignments
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Other materials from this course
- This resource contains information related to gricean meaning (MIT24_251F11_s1_comp1.pdf) Download
- This resource contains information related to gricean implicature (MIT24_251F11_s1_comp2.pdf) Download
- This resource contains information related to gricean meaning (MIT24_251F11_s1_paper1.pdf) Download
- This resource contains information related to prop-oriented make-believe (MIT24_251F11_s1_paper2.pdf) Download
Course outline
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Lecture 2: Meaning and reference
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Lecture 3: Descriptions
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Lecture 4: Names and descriptions
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Lecture 5: Direct reference
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Lecture 6: What is meaning?
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Lecture 7: Empiricist theories
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Lecture 8: Psychological theories
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Lecture 9: Truth-conditional theories
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Lecture 10: Context sensitivity
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Lecture 11: The essential indexical
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Lecture 12: The Kripkenstein paradox
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Lecture 13: Naturalistic reduction
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Lecture 14: Speech acts
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Lecture 15: Illocutionary force
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Lecture 16: Presupposition
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Lecture 17: Assertion
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Lecture 18: Implicature
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Lecture 19: Attitudes, the hidden indexical theory
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Lecture 20: Attitudes, the implicature theory
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Lecture 21: Attitudes, the pragmatic theory
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Lecture 22: Non-literal speech
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Lecture 23: Making believe
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Lecture 24: Semantic pretense and attitude ascriptions
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Lecture 25: Pragmatic pretense and Frege problems
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Lecture 26: Humpty Dumpty, malaprop, etc.
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