Day
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Date
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Reading Selection
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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
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