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 | 19 | Russell | The Problems of Philosophy, ch.5 and sels. from chs. 1 and 4 (Russell ho 1) | rdng gd |
| 21 | The Problems of Philosophy, ch. 12 (Russell ho 2) | rdng gd | ||
| 26 | Wittgenstein | sels. from Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (TLP ho) | rdng gd | |
| 28 | Carnap | “On the Character of Philosophic Problems” (on JSTOR); Maund and Reeves, “Report of Lectures on Philosophy and Logical Syntax” (on JSTOR) | rdng gd | |
| Feb | 2 | Wittgenstein | The Blue Book, sels. (pp. 1-5, 11-15, 16-20, 24-29, 43-45, 55-57) | rdng gd |
| 4 | The Blue Book, sels. (pp. 20-22, 30-41) | rdng gd | ||
| 9 | (ppr 1 due) | The Brown Book, §§1-43 (pp. 77-100) | rdng gd | |
| 11 | The Brown Book, §§44-73 (pp. 100-125) | rdng gd | ||
| 16 | Quine | “Two Dogmas of Empiricism,” §§ I, IV-VI (on JSTOR) | rdng gd | |
| 18 | “Carnap and Logical Truth,” §X (on JSTOR); “On Carnap’s Views on Ontology” (on JSTOR) | rdng gd | ||
| 23 | W. V. Quine, “Speaking of Objects,” §§I-III (on JSTOR) | rdng gd | ||
| 25 | “Speaking of Objects,” §§IV-V (on JSTOR); “Ontological Relativity,” pp. 185-187, 188-191, 198-202 (on JSTOR) | rdng gd | ||
| Mar | 2 | Putnam | “Meaning and Reference,” pp. 699-706 (on JSTOR) | rdng gd |
| 4 | (ppr 2 due) | “Meaning and Reference,” pp. 706-711 (on JSTOR) | rdng gd |