Part 1 Direct reference in language and thought: "de re" communication - direct reference and linguistic meaning - rigidity "de jure", singular propositions and thoughts, the communication of "de re" thoughts; from language to thought - linguistic and psychological modes of presentation, indexicals in thought; "de re" thoughts - "de re" modes of presentation, egocentric concepts vs encyclopedia entries; proper names - the meaning of proper names, answering Kripke's objections, proper names in thought; the two-component pictures, a defence - narrow content and psychological explanation, externalism and the two-component picture. Part 2 The pragmatics of direct reference: methodological preliminaries - truth-conditional pragmatics, primary pragmatic processes. Appendix Availability and the scope principle: referential/attributive - the referential use of definite descriptions, the descriptive use of indexicals; belief reports - belief reports and conversational implicatures, belief reports and the semantics of "that" clauses, comparison with other accounts, how ambiguous are belief sentences?
