Philosophy of Language in the Twentieth Century (J. Stanley)

A while ago, I somewhat insanely agreed to write a paper on the Philosophy of Language in the Twentieth Century, for the forthcoming Routledge Guide to Twentieth Century Philosophy, and my writing this year has been entirely devoted to this task. The way I managed to complete the paper I wrote was to write a narrative I thought would be at least helpful for any graduate student in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, epistemology, and meta-ethics to read. The topics I discuss, and the elementary lessons I draw from them, are ones that I would want my own graduate students to master in their first year of graduate school. So if you feel curious about what I think introductory graduate students in Metaphysics and Epistemology broadly construed should minimally know about the philosophy of language, then this paper would be of interest to you (warning: it's a first complete draft, so there will be typos and the occasional substantive error. For the error-free version, please purchase the Routledge guide).