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 | |
| 1/18 | Russell | The Problems of Philosophy, ch.5 and sels. from chs. 1 and 4 (1up PDF, 2up PDF)—rdng gd |
| 1/20 | The Problems of Philosophy, ch. 12 (1up PDF, 2up PDF)—rdng gd | |
| 1/23 | Wittgenstein | sels. from Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, through 4.06 (PDF on Moodle)—rdng gd |
| 1/25 | sels. from Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, from 4.1 (PDF on Moodle)—rdng gd | |
| 1/27 | no class | |
| 1/30 | Wittgenstein | Blue Book, sels. (pp. 1-5, 11-15, 16-20)—rdng gd |
| 2/1 | Blue Book, sels. (pp. 24-29, 43-45, 55-57)—rdng gd | |
| 2/3 | Blue Book, sels. (pp. 20-22, 30-41)—rdng gd | |
| 2/6 | Brown Book, §§1-21 (pp. 77-91)—rdng gd | |
| 2/8 | Brown Book, §§22-55 (pp. 91-107)—rdng gd | |
| 2/10 | (ppr 1 due) | Brown Book, §§56-73 (pp. 107-125)—rdng gd |
| 2/13 | Carnap | “Empiricsm, Semantics, and Ontology,” ( at www.ditext.com at http://www.ditext.com/carnap/carnap.html)—rdng gd |
| 2/15 | Quine | “On Carnap’s Views on Ontology,” (on JSTOR at 4318118); and “Two Dogmas of Empiricism,” §§ I, IV (on JSTOR at 2181906, pp. 20-24, 31-34)—rdng gd |
| 2/17 | “Two Dogmas of Empiricism,” §§ V-VI (on JSTOR at 2181906, pp. 34-43)—rdng gd | |
| 2/20 | Davidson | “Belief and the Basis of Meaning” (on JSTOR at 20114926, pp. 309-317)—rdng gd |
| 2/22 | “Belief and the Basis of Meaning” (on JSTOR at 20114926, pp. 317-322)—rdng gd | |
| 2/24 | Quine | “Notes on Existence and Necessity,” §§1-4 (on JSTOR at 2017458, pp. 113-125)—rdng gd |
| 2/27 | Putnam | “Meaning and Reference,” intro. and 1st and 2nd sects. (on JSTOR at 2025079, pp. 699-706)—rdng gd |
| 2/29 | “Meaning and Reference,” 3rd sect. (on JSTOR at 2025079, pp. 706-711)—rdng gd | |
| 3/2 | Dummett
(ppr 2 due)
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“Postscript” (on JSTOR at 20114942)—rdng gd |