Languages and language / David Lewis -- Logic and language: an examination of recent criticisms of intensionalism / Jerrold Katz -- The meaning of "meaning" / Hilary Putnam -- Reference and context / Charles Chastain -- Language, thought, and communication / Gilbert Harman -- Knowledge of language / Noam Chomsky -- Language, rules, and complex behavior / Michael D. Root -- A taxonomy of illocutionary acts / John R. Searle -- On what we know / Zeno Vendler -- Vendler on knowledge and belief / Bruce Aune -- Reply to professor aune / Zeno Vendler -- Brain writing and mind reading / D. C. Dennett