MONDAYS

THURSDAYS

JAN 30

Syllabus

FEB 2

Thinking about Mathematics, ch.2

FEB 6

Shapiro, Thinking about Mathematics, ch.3

FEB 9

(No Class - Snow Day)

FEB 15

Shapiro, Thinking about Mathematics, ch.4

[Note that this is a Wednesday that follows a Monday schedule.]

FEB 16

Russell, Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy, chs.1–2

Shapiro, Thinking about Mathematics, §5.1

FEB 20

No Class (President's Day)

FEB 23

Joan Weiner, Frege, chs.2–4

(The primary source:) Frege, The Foundations of Arithmetic (excerpt)

Slides on Frege's Analysis of Number

FEB 27

Notes on Logic and Formal Languages

MAR 2

Notes on Logic and Formal Languages

MAR 6

The 1902 Frege–Russell Correspondence

(This is a tough primary source, but give it a try:) Russell, Mathematical Logic as Based on the Theory of Types, Introduction and §1: 'The Contradictions' (pp. 222–227)

(Useful Secondary Source:) Andrew Irvine and Harry Deutsch: Russell's Paradox, §§1–2

MAR 9

Shapiro, Thinking about Mathematics, §5.2

Russell and Whitehead: Principia Mathematica, Ch.2, §1: 'The Vicious-Circle Principle' (pp.37–38)

(This is a tough primary source, but give it a try:) Russell: Mathematical Logic as Based on the Theory of Types, §§2–4: (pp. 228–241)

(Useful Secondary Source:) Andrew Irvine and Harry Deutsch: Russell's Paradox, §3

MAR 13

Russell: The Problems of Philosophy, chs.1–2

Tim Crane and Craig French: The Problem of Perception (This Stanford Encyclopedia article gives a sense of how the issues Russell raises in these chapters have played out in the 20th Centuty.)

MAR 16

Russell: The Problems of Philosophy, ch.3

Wilfrid Sellars: Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man

MAR 20

Russell: The Problems of Philosophy, ch.4

(A rather murky primary source on some relevant parts of British idealism:) F. H. Bradley: Appearance and Reality, chs. 2–3

(A much more accessible secondary source on Bradley:) Jeff Speaks: Bradley's Monist Idealism

MAR 23

Russell: The Problems of Philosophy, ch.5

Russell, Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy, ch.16: Descriptions

MAR 27

Russell: On Denoting

MAR 30

Russell: The Relation of Sense Data to Physics

APR 3

Russell: The Problems of Philosophy, chs.6–8

APR 6

Russell: The Problems of Philosophy, chs.9–10

APR 10

[NO CLASS: SPRING BREAK]

APR 13

[NO CLASS: SPRING BREAK]

APR 17

[NO CLASS: SPRING BREAK]

APR 20

Rudolf Carnap: Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology

APR 24

W. V. O. Quine: On What There Is

APR 27

Nelson Goodman: The New Riddle of Induction

MAY 1

John Carroll and Ned Markosian: Properties

MAY 4

David Lewis: New Work for a Theory of Universals

MAY 8

Susan Carey: The Origin of Concepts, chs.1–2

MAY 11

Susan Carey: The Origin of Concepts, ch.4

MAY 15

No Class

MAY 18

No Class