(Class cancelled due to sick professor)

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

• Bertrand Russell: The Relation of Sense-data to Physics(read Sections 1–6 (pp.113–123))
• Bertrand Russell: Descriptions (ch.14 of Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy)

Required Reading

• Bertrand Russell: The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
(read Sections 1 and 2, pp.1–32)

Required Reading

There are no new readings for this day, and no critical-feedback assignment. We'll catch up and I'll say some things about logicism. However, you might enjoy this youtube video about Russell's paradox.

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

We are not going to meet in person on this day, as I will be out of town. Instead, please do the reading and submit your critical feedback as usual (it's also okay to respond to others' critical feedbacks if you have a related point). I will then respond in writing on Discord.

Required Reading

• J. L. Austin: Performative Utterances

Optional Readings

• Daniel W. Harris: How the Philosophy of Language Grew out of Analytic Philosophy (read section 3.4, pp.83–88)
  (This is a brief summary of the many competing schools of thought that have grown out of Wittgenstein's ideas about language.)
• Daniel W. Harris and Elmar Unnsteinsson: Wittgenstein's Influence on Austin's Philosophy of Language
  (This is my one (coauthored) piece of historical scholarship on Wittgenstein. Read it if you want to know more about how Wittgenstein influenced Austin. It also contains many very funny examples of philosophical trash talk.)

Required Reading

• David Lewis: Scorekeeping in a Language Game