Topics and reading. 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. Boxed dates are default due dates for papers and links to paper assignments when bold.

1/20  introduction
1/22Peirce Charles Sanders Peirce, “How to Make Our Ideas Clear,” §§I-II (286-293)—handout (1up PDF, 2up PDF, booklet PDF)—reading guide
1/24  ——, “How to Make Our Ideas Clear,” §§III-IV (294-302)—handout (1up PDF, 2up PDF, booklet PDF)—reading guide
1/27Frege Gottlob Frege, “Sense and Reference” (209-214)—on JSTOR at 2181485—reading guide
1/29  ——, “Sense and Reference” (216-221)—on JSTOR at 2181485—reading guide
1/31 ——, “Sense and Reference” (221-230)—on JSTOR at 2181485—reading guide
2/3Russell Bertrand Russell, “On Denoting” (479-484)—on JSTOR at 2248381—reading guide
2/5 ——, “On Denoting” (484-488)—on JSTOR at 2248381—reading guide
2/7  ——, “On Denoting” (488-493)—on JSTOR at 2248381—reading guide
2/10Frege Gottlob Frege, “The Thought” (289-299)—on JSTOR at 2251513—reading guide
2/12  ——, “The Thought” (299-311)—on JSTOR at 2251513—reading guide
2/14Wittgenstein Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (sels.)—handout (1up PDF, 2up PDF, booklet PDF)—reading guide
2/17  ——, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (sels.)—handout (1up PDF, 2up PDF, booklet PDF)—reading guide
2/19Schlick Moritz Schlick, “Positivism and Realism” (478-492)—on JSTOR at 20114083—reading guide
2/21  ——, “Positivism and Realism” (492-505)—on JSTOR at 20114083—reading guide
2/24Tarski Alfred Tarski, “The Semantic Conception of Truth: and the Foundations of Semantics” (341-351)—on JSTOR at 2102968—reading guide
2/26  ——, “The Semantic Conception of Truth: and the Foundations of Semantics” (351-360)—on JSTOR at 2102968—reading guide
2/28  ——, “The Semantic Conception of Truth: and the Foundations of Semantics” (361-370)—on JSTOR at 2102968—reading guide
3/3Wittgenstein Paul Feyerabend, “Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations” (449-460)—on JSTOR at 2182211—reading guide
3/5  ——, “Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations” (460-473)—on JSTOR at 2182211—reading guide
3/7  ——, “Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations” (473-483)—on JSTOR at 2182211—reading guide