Language and Mind, Volume 16

the original essays in this volume look at demonstratives and anaphora, meaning and naming, belief and privileged access, modality, concepts and time, and paradox. These are some of the central issues addressed in the original essays included in this sixteenth volume devoted to the philosophy of language and mind. Philosophical Perspectives, an annual, aims to publish original essays by the foremost thinkers in their fields, with each volume confined to a main area of philosophical research.

James E. Tomberlin is Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Northridge, where he has taught since completing graduate study at Wayne State University in 1969. He has published more than seventy essays and reviews in action theory, deontic logic, metaphysics, philosophy of language, mind, religion, and the theory of knowledge. Besides editorship of the present series, he has edited Agent, Language and the Structure of the World (Hackett, 1983), Hector-Neri Casteneda, Profiles (D. Reidel, 1986) and he co-edited Alvin Plantinga, Profiles (D. Reidel, 1985).