Date
|
Material
Covered |
Sept 5
|
Course Introduction |
Sept 12
|
1) Frege, "Function and Concept"* and 2) "On Concept
and Object"* (to be found in The Frege Reader, or in his Collected
Papers) |
Sept 19
|
Russell, Philosophy of Logical Atomism, lectures
I-IV |
Sept 26
|
Russell, Philosophy of Logical Atomism, lectures
V-VIII |
Oct 3
|
1) Russell, chap. XVIII ("Mathematics and Logic")
of Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy* 2) Russell, Introduction to the Tractatus 3) Frank Ramsey, Critical Notice (review) of the Tractatus* (from Mind 32 (1923): 465-78.) |
Oct 10
|
Tractatus, preface, sections 1 - 3.263 |
Oct 17
|
Tractatus, sections 3.3 - 4.128 |
Oct 24
|
Tractatus, sections 4.2 - 5.156 |
Oct 31
|
Tractatus, sections 5.2 - 5.5352 |
Nov 7
|
Tractatus, sections 5.54 - 6.13 |
Nov 14
|
Tractatus, sections 6.2 - 7 |
Nov 21
|
1) Cora Diamond, "Throwing Away the Ladder: How to
Read the Tractatus"* (from her The Realistic Spirit) 2) Warren Golfarb, "Metaphysics and Nonsense: On Cora Diamond's The Realistic Spirit,"* from Journal of Philosophical Research 22 (1997): 57-73. [recommended background reading: Peter Geach, "Saying and Showing in Frege and Wittgenstein"* (from Acta Philosophica Fennica 28 (1976): 54-70.)] |
Nov 28
|
Thanksgiving. No class. |
Dec 5
|
James Conant, "The Method of the Tractatus"*
(from From Frege to Wittgenstein, ed. Erich H. Reck) |
Dec 11
|
1) Thomas Ricketts, "Pictures, Logic, and the Limits
of Sense in Wittgenstein's Tractatus"* (from The Cambridge Companion
to Wittgenstein, eds. Stern and Sluga) 2) P.M.S. Hacker, "Was He Trying to Whistle It?"* (from The New Wittgenstein , eds. Crary and Read) |