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Calendar. You should regard the assignments below as tentative. Check the reading guide for a class to get the assignment in its final form.

Mar 17 Mill A System of Logic, , bk. II, ch. vi, §§1-3 and bk. III, ch. xxiv, §§5-6 (on a handout)
  19 Frege Foundations of Arithmetic, intro. and §§1-17 (pp. I-XI, 1-24)
  24 Foundations of Arithmetic, §§18-44 (pp. 24-58)
  26 Foundations of Arithmetic, §§45-69 (pp. 58-81)
31 Foundations of Arithmetic, §§70-91, 105-109 (pp. 81-104, 115-119)
Apr 2 no class
7 ppr 1 “Function and Concept” (Beaney, pp. 130-148)
9 “On Sinn and Bedeutung” (Beaney, pp. 151-171)
  14 comments on Sinn and Bedeutung (Beaney, pp. 172-180)
16   “On Concept and Object” (Beaney, pp. 181-193)
21 “Thought” (Beaney, pp. 325-345)
23   “Negation” (Beaney, pp. 346-361)
28 McDowell “On the Sense and Reference of a Proper Name,” pp. 159-175 (on JSTOR)
30 “On the Sense and Reference of a Proper Name,” pp. 175-185 (on JSTOR)
May 4 ppr 2