Required Reading

• Ludwig Wittgenstein: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, pp.3–22 (§§1–3.5)

Required Reading

• Bertrand Russell: The Problems of Philosophy, chs 1–3+5 (pp.1–18 + 25–32)

Required Reading

• Scott Soames: Philosophical Analysis in the 20th Century, chapter 5

Required Reading

• Scott Soames: Philosophical Analysis in the 20th Century, chapter 6

Required Reading

On this day, we're going to continue our discussion of logicism. We'll have no new readings, and you don't need to submit a critical-feedback assignment before this class. However, you might enjoy this youtube video about Russell's paradox.

• My slides on logicism

(Class cancelled due to sick professor)

Required Reading

• Bertrand Russell: The Relation of Sense Data to Physics, (Read the first two pages, at least.)
• Scott Soames: Philosophical Analysis in the 20th Century, chapter 7

Required Reading

• Ludwig Wittgenstein: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, pp.3–31; 80–89 (§§1–4.1212; 6.3–7)
  (Note: This is a lot of reading, but about half of it is the part we've already read. Refresh your memory on that and then check out the rest. Try to think about ways that it is connected to what we've been reading.)

Required Reading

• Rudolf Carnap: The Elimination of Metaphysics through Logical Analysis of Language

Required Reading

• Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Blue Book (pp.1–19)

Required Reading

• Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations (§§1–22)

Required Reading

• Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations (§§23–64)

Required Reading

• Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations (§§65–88)

Required Reading

• Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations (§§89–137)

Required Reading

• Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations (§§138–170)

Required Reading

• Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations (§§171–242)

Required Reading

• Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations (§§243–280)

Required Reading

• Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations (§§281–397)

Required Reading

• Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations (§§398–546)

Required Reading

• Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations (§§547–693)

Required Reading

• Eleanor Rosch: Wittgenstein and Categorization research in Cognitive Psychology

Required Reading

• Saul Kripke: Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language (excerpt)

Required Reading

• Ruth Millikan: Hoverflies, Truth Rules, and the Kripke-Wittgenstein Paradox

Required Reading

• Jerry Fodor: The Language of Thought
  (Please read at least the first half of Chapter 1 (pp.27–42), and at least the following bits of Chapter 2: pp.55–58, pp.68–74. If you have time and you're finding it interesting, read all of Chapters 1 and 2.)

Required Reading

• David Lewis: Scorekeeping in a Language Game
• Richard Larson: Grammar as Science (excerpt)
  (Please read at least one of these two )