Sept. 12.- Course Introduction. Historical
and biographical information.
Sept. 19. - Frege, Begriffsschrift,
Part I (in Frege Reader [FR], pp. 47-74)
Sept. 26. - Frege, “Function
and Concept” (in FR pp. 130-48), Frege, Grundgesetze
der Arithmetik, excerpts from Vol. I (FR 208-23),
(recommended: “On Concept and Object” in FR 180-93)
Oct. 3. - Frege, “On Sinn
and Bedeutung” (in FR, pp. 151-71), Frege,
Letter to Husserl, May 1891 (in FR, pp. 149-50), Frege,
“Comments on Sinn and Bedeutung” (in
FR 172-80)
Oct. 10. - Frege, “Introduction
to Logic” (in FR 293-8), Frege, Letter to Jourdain,
Jan. 1914 (in FR 319-21), Frege, “Thought” (in
FR 325-45), (recommended: Frege, Grundgesetze,
Vol. I Preface, in FR 194-208, “Logic” in FR
227-50, “Notes for Ludwig Darmstädter” in FR
362-7)
Oct. 17. - Russell and Frege, Correspondence
1902-1904 (in Course Pack [CPk]),
Frege, Grundgesetze der Arithmetik, appendix to Vol. II
(FR 279-89), Russell, Principles of Mathematics,
§§101-4, §§497-500.
Oct. 24. - G. E. Moore, “On
the Nature of Judgment” (in CPk), Russell, The
Principles of Mathematics, chaps. IV, V, (chap. II recommended)
Oct. 31. - Russell, “On Denoting”
(in CPk)
Nov. 7. - Russell, pp. 165-78, 188-9
of “The Substitutional Theory of Classes and Relations”
(in CPk), Russell, pp. 204-14 of “On ‘Insolubilia’
and their Solution by Symbolic Logic” (in CPk)
Nov. 14. - Russell, pp. 59-88 of
“Mathematical Logic As Based On The Theory of Types”
(in CPk), Russell, pp. 221-30 of “The Theory of Logical
Types” (in CPk)
Nov. 21. - Russell, The Philosophy
of Logical Atomism
Nov. 28. - Wittgenstein, Tractatus,
§§1-4.53
Dec. 5. - Wittgenstein, Tractatus,
§§5-7
Dec. 12. - Frank P. Ramsey, “The
Foundations of Mathematics” (in CPk)