Required Reading:
From Martinich, A. P. and David Sosa (2013) The Philosophy of Language, sixth edition, Oxford University Press:
[1] Frege, Gottlob: On Sense and Reference (Chapter 2).
[2] Kaplan, David: Demonstratives (Chapter 36).
[3] Kripke, Saul: A Puzzle about Belief (Chapter 18).
[4] Mill, John Stuart: Of Names (Chapter 1).
[5] Putnam, Hilary: Meaning and Reference (Chapter 5).
[6] Quine, W. V.: Quantifiers and Propositional Attitudes (Chapter 14).
[7] Russell, Bertrand: On Denoting (Chapter 8).
[8] Searle, John: Proper Names (Chapter 3).
In the compendium for this course:
[9] Asheim, Olav: Creatures of Imagination and Belief.
[10] Bealer, George: An Inconsistency in Direct Reference Theory.
[11] Donnellan, Keith: Speaking of Nothing.
[12] Kripke, Saul: Identity and Necessity.
[13] Kripke, Saul: Vacuous Names and Fictional Entities.
[14] Michael, Michaelis: Belief De Re, Knowing Who, and Singular Thought.