Calendar. You should regard the assignments below as tentative. Check the reading guide for a class to get the assignment in its final form.
| 3/12 | Pierce | “How to Make Our Ideas Clear” (PDF: 1up, 2up)—guide |
| 3/14 | James | “Pragmatism’s Conception of Truth,” lecture 6 of Pragmatism (PDF: 1up, 2up)—guide |
| 3/16 | Russell | “William James’s Conception of Truth,” essay 5 of Philosophical Essays (PDF: 1up, 2up)—guide |
| 3/19 | Joachim | “‘Absolute’ and ‘Relative’ Truth” (on JSTOR at 2248069, pp. 1-14—on PDF: 1up, 2up)—guide |
| 3/21 | Russell | “The Monistic Theory Of Truth,” essay 6 of Philosophical Essays; and sel. from The Problems of Philosophy, ch. 12 (PDF: 1up, 2up)—guide |
| 3/23 | “On the Nature of Truth and Falsehood,” essay 7 of Philosophical Essays (PDF: 1up, 2up)—guide | |
| 3/26 | Ramsey | “Facts and Propositions” (on JSTOR at 4106403, pp. 153-170)—guide |
| 3/28 | Ayer | “The Criterion of Truth” (on JSTOR at 3326615, pp. 28-32)—guide |
| 3/30 | Hempel | “On the Logical Positivists’ Theory of Truth” (on JSTOR at 3326781, pp. 49-59)—guide |
| 4/2 | Tarski | “The Semantic Conception of Truth: and the Foundations of Semantics,” §I (on JSTOR at 2102968, pp. 341-355)—guide |
| 4/4 | ppr 1 due | Ibid., §II (on JSTOR at 2102968, pp. 355-370)—guide |
| 4/6 | Soames | “What is a Theory of Truth?,” §§I-II (on JSTOR at 2026307, pp. 411-422)—guide |
| 4/9 | Ibid., §§III-V (on JSTOR at 2026307, pp. 422-429)—guide | |
| 4/11 | Dummett | “The Reality of the Past” (on JSTOR at 4544778, pp. 239-258)—guide |
| 4/13 | Putnam | “Realism and Reason” (on JSTOR at 3129784, pp. 483-498)—guide |
| 4/16 | “The Face of Cognition” (on JSTOR at 2940978?seq=44, pp. 488-500)—guide | |
| 4/18 | Ibid. (on JSTOR at 2940978?seq=56, pp. 500-510)—guide | |
| 4/20 | Ibid. (on JSTOR at 2940978?seq=66, pp. 510-517)—guide | |
| 4/23 | Wright, C. | “Précis of Truth and Objectivity” (on JSTOR at 2108286, pp. 863-868)—guide |
| 4/25 | Wright, C. D. | “On the Functionalization of Pluralist Approaches to Truth,” §§1-3 (on JSTOR at 20118579, pp. 1-13)—guide |
| 4/27 | Ibid., §4 (on JSTOR at 20118579?seq=13, pp. 13-23)—guide | |
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| 5/3 | ppr 2 due | |