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. Boxed dates are default due date for papers (and links to paper assignments when bold).

3/17  introduction
3/19Carnap Rudolph Carnap, “Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology,” §§1-2—on the web at http://www.ditext.com/carnap/carnap.html—reading guide
3/21  ——, §§3-5—on the web at http://www.ditext.com/carnap/carnap.html—reading guide
3/24Quine Willard van Orman Quine, “Two Dogmas of Empiricism,” §§I-III, pp. 20–31—on JSTOR at 2181906—reading guide
3/26  ——, §IV, §V (beginning), pp. 31–38—on JSTOR at 2181906—reading guide
3/28  ——, §V (end), §VI pp. 38–43—on JSTOR at 2181906—reading guide
3/31Geach Peter Geach, “Russell’s Theory of Descriptions”—on JSTOR at 3326446—reading guide
4/2Grice H. Paul Grice, “Meaning,” pp. 377–382—on JSTOR at 2182440—reading guide
4/4  ——, pp. 382–388—on JSTOR at 2182440—reading guide
4/7Quine Willard van Orman Quine, “Speaking of Objects,” §§I-III, pp. 5–15—on JSTOR at 3129242—reading guide
4/9  ——, §§IV–V, pp. 15–22—on JSTOR at 3129242—reading guide
4/11Kaplan David Kaplan, “Quantifying In,” §§I-V, pp. 178–190—on JSTOR at 20114638—reading guide
4/14  ——, §§VI-VIII, pp. 190–197—on JSTOR at 20114638—reading guide
4/16  ——, §§IX-XIII, pp. 197–210—on JSTOR at 20114638—reading guide
4/18Stalnaker Robert Stalnaker, “Pragmatics,” through §III, pp. 272–281—on JSTOR at 20114754—reading guide
4/21  ——, §§IV-V, pp. 281-288—on JSTOR at 20114754—reading guide
4/23Lewis David Lewis, “Scorekeeping in a Language Game,” pp. 339–347—on JSTOR at 30227173—reading guide
4/25  ——, pp. 348–358—on JSTOR at 30227173—reading guide
4/28Chalmers David Chalmers, “The Nature of Narrow Content,” §§1-3, pp. 46-53—on Wiley Online Library at DOI: 10.1111/1533-6077.00004—reading guide
4/30  ——, §§4–5, pp. 53–60—on Wiley Online Library at DOI: 10.1111/1533-6077.00004—reading guide
5/2  ——, §§6–7, pp. 60–65—on Wiley Online Library at DOI: 10.1111/1533-6077.00004—reading guide
5/7 exam week