Phil 584 – Philosophy of Language

Fall 2001. Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:15-12:30 in 319 Bartlett
Prof. Kevin Klement (Please call me "Kevin".)


Reading Schedule

All of the following articles can be found in the Martinich volume, with one exception (marked with **). This paper will be made available for photocopy in the philosophy department office (352 Bartlett).

Note: this schedule is subject to radical changes.

Day
Date
Reading Selection
Th
Sept 6
Course introduction
Tu
Sept 11
Introductory material; Gottlob Frege, "On Sense and Nominatum"
Th
Sept 13
Gottlob Frege, "On Sense and Nominatum", continued
Tu
Sept 18
Bertrand Russell, "On Denoting"
Th
Sept 20
Bertrand Russell, "Descriptions"
Tu
Sept 25
P.F. Strawson, "On Referring"
Th
Sept 27
Keith Donnellan, "Reference and Definite Descriptions"
Tu
Oct 2
Saul Kripke, "Naming and Necessity"
Th
Oct 4
Hilary Putnam, "Meaning and Reference"
Tu
Oct 9
Gareth Evans, "The Causal Theory of Names"; John Searle, "Proper Names and Intentionality"
Th
Oct 11
EXAM 1
Tu
Oct 16
W.V. Quine, "Quantifiers and Propositional Attitudes"; David Kaplan, "Quantifying In"
Th
Oct 18
Donald Davidson, "On Saying That"
Tu
Oct 23
Jon Barwise and John Perry, "Semantic Innocence and Uncompromising Situations"
Th
Oct 25
Saul Kripke, "A Puzzle About Belief"
Tu
Oct 30
Carl Hempel, "Empiricist Criteria of Cognitive Significance"
Th
Nov 1
W.V. Quine, "Two Dogmas of Empiricism"
Tu
Nov 6
W.V. Quine, "Meaning and Translation"**
Th
Nov 8
Alfred Tarski, "The Semantic Conception of Truth and the Foundations of Semantics"
Tu
Nov 13
Donald Davidson, "Truth and Meaning" and "Belief and the Basis of Meaning"
Th
Nov 15
EXAM 2
Tu
Nov 20
J.L. Austin, "Performative Utterances"
Th
Nov 22
Thanksgiving (No class)
Tu
Nov 27
John Searle, "The Structure of Illocutionary Acts" and "A Taxonomy of Illocutionary Acts"
Th
Nov 29
H.P. Grice, "Logic and Conversation"
Tu
Dec 4
Saul Kripke, "On Rules and Private Language"
Th
Dec 6
Ruth Millikan, "Truth Rules, Hoverflies and the Kripke-Wittgenstein Paradox"
Tu
Dec 11
David Lewis, "Language and Languages"
Th
Dec 13
Noam Chomsky, "Language and Problems of Knowledge"
??
Finals
EXAM 3

See also the syllabus

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