Calendar. You should regard the assignments below as tentative. Check the reading guide for a class to get the assignment in its final form.
| 1/17 | introduction | ||
| 1/19 | Russell | The Problems of Philosophy, ch.5 and sels. from chs. 1 and 4 (Russell ho 1) | rdng gd |
| 1/21 | The Problems of Philosophy, ch. 12 (Russell ho 2) | rdng gd | |
| 1/24 | Wittgenstein | sels. from Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, through 4.06 (TLP ho) | rdng gd |
| 1/26 | sels. from Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, from 4.1 (TLP ho) | rdng gd | |
| 1/28 | Carnap | “On the Character of Philosophic Problems” (on JSTOR, pp. 5-19); Maund and Reeves, “Report of Lectures on Philosophy and Logical Syntax” (on JSTOR, pp. 42-48) | rdng gd |
| 1/31 | Wittgenstein | The Blue Book, sels. (pp. 1-5, 11-15, 16-20) | rdng gd |
| 2/2 | The Blue Book, sels. (pp. 24-29, 43-45, 55-57) | rdng gd | |
| 2/4 | The Blue Book, sels. (pp. 20-22, 30-41) | rdng gd | |
| 2/7 | (ppr 1 due) | The Brown Book, §§1-21 (pp. 77-91) | rdng gd |
| 2/9 | The Brown Book, §§22-55 (pp. 91-107) | rdng gd | |
| 2/11 | The Brown Book, §§56-73 (pp. 107-125) | rdng gd | |
| 2/14 | Quine | “Two Dogmas of Empiricism,” §§ I, IV-VI (on JSTOR, pp. 20-24, 31-43) | rdng gd |
| 2/16 | “Notes on Existence and Necessity,” §§1-4 (on JSTOR, pp. 113-125) | rdng gd | |
| 2/18 | Davidson | “On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme” (on JSTOR, pp. 5-15) | rdng gd |
| 2/21 | “On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme” (on JSTOR, pp. 15-20) | rdng gd | |
| 2/23 | Putnam | “Meaning and Reference,” intro. and 1st and 2nd sects. (on JSTOR, pp. 699-706) | rdng gd |
| 2/25 | “Meaning and Reference,” 3rd sect. (on JSTOR, pp. 706-711) | rdng gd | |
| 2/28 | Davidson | “Knowing One’s Own Mind” (on JSTOR, pp. 441-446) | rdng gd |
| 3/2 | “Knowing One’s Own Mind” (on JSTOR, pp. 446-451) | rdng gd | |
| 3/4 | (ppr 2 due) | “Knowing One’s Own Mind” (on JSTOR, pp. 451-456) | rdng gd |