Phi 346-02
Spring 2014
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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,” §§1-2on the web at http://www.ditext.com/carnap/carnap.htmlreading guide
3/21  ——, §§3-5on the web at http://www.ditext.com/carnap/carnap.htmlreading guide
3/24Quine Willard van Orman Quine, “Two Dogmas of Empiricism,” §§I-III, pp. 20–31on JSTOR at 2181906reading guide
3/26  ——, §IV, §V (beginning), pp. 31–38on JSTOR at 2181906reading guide
3/28  ——, §V (end), §VI pp. 38–43on JSTOR at 2181906reading guide
3/31Geach Peter Geach, “Russell’s Theory of Descriptions”on JSTOR at 3326446reading guide
4/2Grice H. Paul Grice, “Meaning,” pp. 377–382on JSTOR at 2182440reading guide
4/4  ——, pp. 382–388on JSTOR at 2182440reading guide
4/7Quine Willard van Orman Quine, “Speaking of Objects,” §§I-III, pp. 5–15on JSTOR at 3129242reading guide
4/9  ——, §§IV–V, pp. 15–22on JSTOR at 3129242reading guide
4/11Kaplan David Kaplan, “Quantifying In,” §§I-V, pp. 178–190on JSTOR at 20114638reading guide
4/14  ——, §§VI-VIII, pp. 190–197on JSTOR at 20114638reading guide
4/16  ——, §§IX-XIII, pp. 197–210on JSTOR at 20114638reading guide
4/18Stalnaker Robert Stalnaker, “Pragmatics,” through §III, pp. 272–281on JSTOR at 20114754reading guide
4/21  ——, §§IV-V, pp. 281-288on JSTOR at 20114754reading guide
4/23Lewis David Lewis, “Scorekeeping in a Language Game,” pp. 339–347on JSTOR at 30227173reading guide
4/25  ——, pp. 348–358on JSTOR at 30227173reading guide
4/28Chalmers David Chalmers, “The Nature of Narrow Content,” §§1-3, pp. 46-53—on Wiley Online Library at DOI: 10.1111/1533-6077.00004reading guide
4/30  ——, §§4–5, pp. 53–60—on Wiley Online Library at DOI: 10.1111/1533-6077.00004reading guide
5/2  ——, §§6–7, pp. 60–65—on Wiley Online Library at DOI: 10.1111/1533-6077.00004reading guide
5/7 exam week