What must linguistic knowledge be like if it is to explain our capacity to use language? All linguists and philosophers of language presuppose some answer to this critical question, but all too often the presupposition is tacit. In this collection of sixteen previously unpublished essays, a distinguished international line-up of philosophers and linguists address a variety of interconnected themes concerning our knowledge of language.

• 1: Alex Barber: Introduction


• Part One: Knowledge in Linguistics


• 2: Louise M. Antony: Rabbit-Pots and Supernovas: On the Relevance of Psychological Data to Linguistic Theory


• 3: Stephen Laurence: Is Linguistics a Branch of Psychology?


• 4: Michael Devitt: Linguistics is Not Psychology


• 5: Georges Rey: Intentional Content and a Chomskian Linguistics


• 6: Robert J. Matthews: Does Linguistic Competence Require Knowledge of Language?


• Part Two: Understanding


• 7: Paul M. Pietroski: The Character of Natural Language Semantics


• 8: Reinaldo Elugardo and Robert J. Stainton: Grasping Objects and Contents


• 9: Stephen Schiffer: Knowledge of Meaning


• 10: Elizabeth Fricker: Understanding and Knowledge of What is Said


• 11: Alex Barber: Truth Conditions and Their Recognition


• Part Three: Linguistic Externalism


• 12: Peter Ludlow: Externalism, Logical Form, and Linguistic Intentions


• 13: Gabriel Segal: Ignorance of Meaning


• 14: Jessica Brown: Externalism and the Fregean Tradition


• Part Four: Epistemology through Language


• 15: Alexander Miller: What is the Acquistion Argument?


• 16: James Higginbotham: Remembering, Imagining, and the First Person