Detailed calendar. The assignments below are approximate and tentative. Sometimes a reading-guide handout will specify the details of an assignment, and it may include passages that are part of your assignment.
| 3/15 | Mill | sels. from A System Of Logic (book VI, chs. 1-3, 6; 8th ed., vol. 2, pp. 415-435, 464-468)—handout (1up PDF, 2up PDF, booklet PDF)—reading guide |
| 3/17 | Hempel | “The Function of General Laws in History”—on JSTOR at 2017635—reading guide |
| 3/22 | Dray | “Explanatory Narrative in History”—on JSTOR at 2217274—reading guide |
| 3/24 | Taylor | “Understanding in Human Science”—on JSTOR at 20127456—reading guide |
| 3/29 | Winch | “Understanding a Primitive Society,” §I (pp. 307-315)—on JSTOR at 20009143—reading guide |
| 3/31 | ibid., §II (pp. 315-324)—on JSTOR at 20009143—reading guide (paper 1 due) | |
| 4/5 | Dore | “Function and Cause”—on JSTOR at 2090569—reading guide |
| 4/7 | Lukes | “Methodological Individualism Reconsidered”—on JSTOR at 588689—reading guide |
| 4/12 | Dennett | “Real Patterns,” §§I-II, pp. 27-37—on JSTOR at 2027085—reading guide |
| 4/14 | ibid., §§III-IV, pp. 37-51—on JSTOR at 2027085—reading guide (paper 2 due) | |
| 4/19 | Gibbard/Varian | “Economic Models”—on JSTOR at 2025484—reading guide |
| 4/21 | Sugden | “The Changing Relationship between Theory and Experiment in Economics”—on JSTOR at 10.1086/594509—reading guide |
| 4/26 | Sterelny | “The Evolution and Evolvability of Culture,” §§1-5, pp. 137-152—on EBSCO at AN 20273999—reading guide |
| 4/28 | ibid., §§ 6-7, pp. 152-162 EBSCO at AN 20273999—reading guide | |
| 5/6 | Fri | (paper 3 due) |