Texts:

Gottlob Frege. The Foundations of Aritmetic, J. L. Austin, tr. (Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1980).

Michael Beaney, ed. The Frege Reader (Blackwell Publishing, 1997).

Handout:

John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, bk. II, ch. vi, §§1-3 and bk. III, ch. xxiv, §§5-6 (handout)

JSTOR:

John McDowell, “On the Sense and Reference of a Proper Name,” Mind, n.s. vol. 86 (1977), pp. 159-185 (on JSTOR)

Requirements: (1) Two papers (the first paper about 3 pp. and the second paper 6-8 pp.); I will suggest topics but you will have substantial freedom of choice. (2) Regular, prepared, and active participation in class discussion (perhaps including occasional brief writing assignments or assigned tasks in discussion). Your final grade will be based on these in the following way: 25% and 55%, respectively, for the papers and 20% for class participation.