Phil 593 – Early Analytic Philosophy

Fall 2000. Tuesdays 4:00-6:30pm in Philosophy Seminar Room (374 Bartlett)
Prof. Kevin Klement (Please call me “Kevin”.)

Contents of Course Pack

  • Frege, Gottlob and Bertrand Russell. The Frege-Russell Correspondence. From Philosophical and Mathematical Correspondence, by Gottlob Frege, pp. 130-70. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980. Translated by Hans Kaal. Originally published in German in Wissenschaftlicher Briefwechsel (Hamburg: Felix Meiner, 1976).
  • Moore, George Edward. "The Nature of Judgment." From G. E. Moore: Selected Writings, anthology by G. E. Moore, edited by Thomas Baldwin, pp. 1-19. London: Routledge, 1993. Originally published in Mind 8 (1899), pp. 176-93.
  • Moore, George Edward. "Truth and Falsity." From G. E. Moore: Selected Writings, anthology by G. E. Moore, edited by Thomas Baldwin, pp. 20-2. London: Routledge, 1993. Originally published in the Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology, ed. J. Baldwin (London: Macmillan, 1901-2), vol. 2, pp. 716-8.
  • Russell, Bertrand. "On Denoting." From Logic and Knowledge, anthology by Bertrand Russell, edited by Robert C. Marsh, pp. 39-56. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1956. Originally published in Mind 14 (1905): 479-93.
  • Russell, Bertrand. "Mathematical Logic as Based on the Theory of Types." From Logic and Knowledge, anthology by Bertrand Russell, edited by Robert C. Marsh, pp. 57-102. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1956. Originally published in American Journal of Mathematics 30 (1908): 222-62.
  • Russell, Bertrand. "On the Substitutional Theory of Classes and Relations." From Essays in Analysis, anthology by Bertrand Russell, edited by Douglas Lackey, pp. 165-89. New York: George Braziller, 1973. (Written in 1906.)
  • Russell, Bertrand. "On 'Insolubilia' and Their Solution By Symbolic Logic." From Essays in Analysis, anthology by Bertrand Russell, edited by Douglas Lackey, pp. 190-214. New York: George Braziller, 1973. Originally published in French as "Les paradoxes de la logique," Revue de métaphysique et de la morale 14 (1906): 627-50. (English draft written and titled by Russell himself.)
  • Russell, Bertrand. "The Theory of Logical Types." From Essays in Analysis, anthology by Bertrand Russell, edited by Douglas Lackey, pp. 215-252. New York: George Braziller, 1973. Originally published in French as "La théorie des types logiques," Revue de métaphysique et de la morale 18 (1910): 263-301. English draft written by Russell himself, and published with slight revision as Chapter II of the Introduction to Principia Mathematica, Vol. I., by Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead, pp. 37-65. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1910.)
  • Ramsey, Frank Plumpton. "The Foundations of Mathematics." From Philosophical Papers, anthology by F. P. Ramsey, edited by D. H. Mellor, pp. 164-224. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. First published in Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society 25 (1925): 338-84.

 

See also the Syllabus.and Reading Schedule

Return to the Course Home Page.