Syllabus

Class notes, handouts, links, etc.:

Week 1

T  Jan. 15  No online notes
Th  Jan. 17  Notes01 (Martinich, Introduction)
    Online reading:  http://www.rep.routledge.com/article/U017
 

Topic: Meaning and Reference (General)

Week 2

T  Jan. 22  Notes02 (Locke, "Of Words")
Th  Jan. 24  Notes03 (Frege, "On Sense and Nominatum")
    Here's a link to some general information on Frege: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/frege/

Week 3

T  Jan. 29  Notes04 (Russell, "On Denoting"); Notes05 (Russell, "Descriptions")
    *Here's a link to some general information on Russell.  Check out the section "Russell's Work in Analytic Philosophy" in particular:
    http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/russell/
    *Also, I recommend that you read the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry for ‘logical form’ (section 5, in particular):
    http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logical-form/
    *Finally, check out the entry on ‘analysis’ (section 6, in particular):
    http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/analysis/
Th  Jan. 31  Notes 06 (Strawson, ''On Referring" and Russell, ''Mr. Strawson on Referring")
 

Topic: Names and Natural Kind Terms

Week 4

T  Feb. 5  Notes07 (Mill, ''Of Names"); Notes08 (Kripke, Naming and Necessity, Preface)

Th  Feb. 7  Notes09 (Kripke, Naming and Necessity, Lecture 1)
    Shorter Paper Assignment

Week 5

T  Feb. 12  Notes10 (Kripke, Naming and Necessity, Lecture 2)
Th  Feb. 14  No online notes

Week 6

T  Feb. 19  Notes11 (Kripke, Naming and Necessity, Lecture 3)
Th  Feb. 21  No online notes

Week 7

T  Feb. 26  Notes12 (Putnam, ''Meaning and Reference")
Th  Feb. 28  Notes13 (Evans, ''The Causal Theory of Names")
    Shorter Paper Due
    Midterm Distributed
 

Topic: Meaning and Truth

Week 8

T  March 4  Notes14 (Hempel, ''Empiricist Criteria of Cognitive Significance:  Problems and Changes")
Th  March 6  No online notes

Week 9

T  March 11  Notes15 (Quine, ''Two Dogmas of Empiricism")
Th  March 13  No online notes

Week 10

T  March 18  NO CLASS   SPRING BREAK
Th  March 20  NO CLASS   SPRING BREAK

Week 11

T  March 25  Notes16 (Grice and Strawson, ''In Defense of a Dogma")
    *Our reading, from Philosophical Review, Vol. 65, No. 2 (1956), is available online.
    You can access this journal through the university's subscription to JSTOR.  This link should get you there, if you are using a university computer:
    http://www.jstor.org/browse/00318108/di981203?config=jstor&frame=noframe&userID=82b8cdaf@uark.edu/018dd5533b0050114c8dc&dpi=3
Th  March 27  Notes17 (Grice, ''Meaning")
 

Topic: Speech Acts

Week 12

T  April 1  Notes18 (Austin, ''Performative Utterances")
    *Here's a link to an introduction to speech act theory: http://online.sfsu.edu/~kbach/spchacts.html
    Longer Paper Assignment
Th  April 3 Notes19 (Searle, ''The Structure of Illocutionary Acts")

Week 13

T  April 8  Notes20 (Searle, ''A Taxonomy of Illocutionary Acts")
Th  April 10  Notes21 (Grice, ''Logic and Conversation")
 

Topic: Propositional Attitudes

Week 14

T  April 15  No online notes
    *Online reading:  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/prop-attitude-reports/
Th  April 17  Notes22 (Quine, ''Quantifiers and Propositional Attitudes")

Week 15

T  April 22  Notes23 (Kaplan, ''Quantifying In")
Th  April 24  Notes24 (Kripke, ''A Puzzle about Belief")

Week 16

T  April 29  No online notes
Th  May 1  No online notes
    Final Exam Questions
    Longer Paper Due (By Friday at 11:59 p.m.)