Calendar. You should regard the assignments below as tentative. Check the reading guide for a class to get the assignment in its final form.
| Jan | 15 | intro | ||
| 20 | Russell | The Problems of Philosophy, ch.5 and sels. from chs. 1 and 4 (Russell ho 1) | rdng gd | |
| 22 | The Problems of Philosophy, ch. 12 (Russell ho 2) | rdng gd | ||
| 27 | Wittgenstein | sels. from Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (TLP ho) | rdng gd | |
| 29 | Carnap | “On the Character of Philosophic Problems” (on JSTOR) | rdng gd | |
| Feb | 3 | Wittgenstein | The Blue Book, sels. (pp. 1-5, 11-15, 16-20, 24-29, 43-45, 55-57) | rdng gd |
| 5 | The Blue Book, sels. (pp. 20-22, 30-41) | rdng gd | ||
| 10 | (ppr 1 due) | The Brown Book, §§1-43 (pp. 77-100) | rdng gd | |
| 12 | The Brown Book, §§44-73 (pp. 100-125) | rdng gd | ||
| 17 | Quine | “Two Dogmas of Empiricism, ” §§ I, IV-VI (on JSTOR) | rdng gd | |
| 19 | “On Carnap’s View on Ontology” (on JSTOR) | rdng gd | ||
| 24 | “Ontological Relativity,” pp. 185-198 (on JSTOR) | rdng gd | ||
| 26 | “Ontological Relativity,” pp. 198-212 (on JSTOR) | rdng gd | ||
| Mar | 3 | Putnam | “Meaning and Reference,” pp. 699-706 (on JSTOR) | rdng gd |
| 5 | (ppr 2 due) | “Meaning and Reference,” pp. 706-711 (on JSTOR) | rdng gd |