Syllabus   |   Discord Server   |   First Essay   |   Second Essay

Thursday, August 29th   |   Introduction

Monday, September 2nd   |   No Class

Thursday, September 5th   |   Language as an Internal Computational System

Monday, September 9th   |   Semantics: Computing Meanings

Thursday, September 12th   |   Reference as a conceptual capacity

Monday, September 16th   |   Language as an innate structure

Thursday, September 19th   |   Syntax and Semantics in Animal Communication?

Monday, September 23rd   |   Language as a Social Activity

Thursday, September 26th   |   Language and Rule Following

Monday, September 30th   |   Language and Performativity

Thursday, October 3rd   |   No Class

Monday, October 7th   |   Speech Acts

Thursday, October 10th   |   Reference as a social activity

Monday, October 14th   |   No Class

Tuesday, October 15th   |   Finishing Kripke, Preview of Grice

Required Reading

My plan for this day is to finish discussing the previous day's reading, and to give a preview of the next two readings. There are no required readings for this day, but read the previous reading by Kripke, and get a head strart on the next two readings. Note that I also won't require a critical-feedback for this day. (Please come prepared with whatever questions you'd like to discuss, however!)

Thursday, October 17th   |   Meaning and Intentions 1

Required Reading

Monday, October 21st   |   Meaning and Intentions 2

Required Reading

Thursday, October 24th   |   Formal system *and* social activity

Monday, October 28th   |   Language as a game with rules

Thursday, October 31st   |   Animal Pragmatics

Monday, November 4th   |   Grice on Indirect Communication

Thursday, November 7th   |   Insinuation

Monday, November 11th   |   Bullshitting

Required Reading

Thursday, November 14th   |   Bullshit

Monday, November 18th   |   Metaphor and Ineffability

Thursday, November 21st   |   The Limits of Effability

Monday, November 25th   |   Hermeneutical Injustice

Thursday, November 28th   |   Thanksgiving