You may, of course, write your final paper on any topic connected to the course. But since some people have asked for some guidance, below are some ideas:
1. Grice analyzes speaker-meaning in terms of audience-directed intentions. How, if at all, can this analysis be modified to handle cases in which there is no audience? How should a Gricean think about the relationship between expression meaning and speaker-meaning?
2. Can Davidson's theory of radical interpretation provide an answer to skepticism?
3. Some use theorists of meaning take ascriptions of meanings to state relations between expressions and their meanings (Horwich), while others do not (Sellars). Which is the more promising view for a use theorist?
4. Evaluate Dummett's arguments, based on the theory of meaning, for anti-realism.
5. In what sense does Kripke's skeptic think that facts about meaning are normative? Are they normative, in that sense? What implications does this have for the theory of meaning?