In this course we deal with several key issues in the philosophy of language, as they arise in the writings of several major philosophers of the second part of the 20th century and up to the present. At the heart of the course will be the question of linguistic meaning: What it is, and what makes it the case that our utterances have the meaning they do. We will examine how this central issue is related to several semantic questions, such as that of reference, the nature of truth, the debate over the viability of the notion of literal meaning, and the question of the logical structure of sentences reporting what people say and believe. Also, we will look into the connections between the question of linguistic meaning and important philosophical issues in adjacent fields, e.g., the nature of belief on the one hand and logic on the other. Among the philosophers from the writings of whom we shall read are Brandom, Dummett, Davidson, Putnam, Quine and Tarski.