Philosophy of Language: a Contemporary Introduction introduces the student to the main issues and theories in twentieth-century philosophy of language, focusing specifically on linguistic phenomena. Topics are structured in three parts in the book. Part I, Reference and Referring Expressions, includes topics such as Russell's Theory of Desciptions, Donnellan's distinction, problems of anaphora, the description theory of proper names, Searle's cluster theory, and the causal-historical theory. Part II, Theories of Meaning, surveys the competing theories of linguistic meaning and compares their various advantages and liabilities. Part III, Pragmatics and Speech Acts, introduces the basic concepts of linguistic pragmatics, includes a detailed discussion of the problem of indirect force and surveys approaches to metaphor. Part IV, new to this edition, examines the four theories of metaphor. Features of Philosophy of Language include: New chapters on Frege and puzzles, inferentialism, illocutionary theories of meaning and relevance theory chapter overviews and summaries clear supportive examples study questions annotated further reading glossary

《哲学作为严格的科学》在当时思想界所产生的影响至少可以概括以下两个方面：
人批判的角度来看，在《逻辑研究》完成了对心理主义的有力抨击之后，《哲学作为严格的科学》仍需要在两条站线上作战：一方面是与自然主义，另一方面是与历史主义，前者主要表现在当时盛行的实验心理学的各种学说之中，后者则主要是指为狄尔泰等人所倡导的历史学派，胡塞尔的批判在很大程度上是《逻辑研究》中对心理主义批判的继续，他仍然在坚持不懈地提示这些学说的相对主义和主义之最终结局。
除此之外，由于胡塞尔在这篇文章中公开表露了他与狄尔泰思想的分歧，因而这篇文字对后人理解现象学与解释学之间的关系也不无启迪作用。