Syllabus

Course Meeting Times

Seminars: 2 sessions / week, 3 hours / session

Prerequisite

Permission of the instructors.

Assignments and Course Format

Each session will consist of a discussion of previously assigned questions on the reading. The discussion will start off with a presentation by one or sometimes two of the seminar participants. Every presentation should be accompanied by a handout; at least one presentation should be in PowerPoint or equivalent. A 3 page paper is due in about three weeks, a 6 page paper is due mid-way through the term, and a 15 page paper is due at the end. Occasional handouts will be distributed as we go along.

For further detail, please see the Assignments section.

Required Texts

Buy at Amazon Frege, Gottlob. The Foundations of Arithmetic: A Logico-Mathematical Enquiry into the Concept of Number. 2nd revised ed. Translated by J. L. Austin. Northwestern University Press, 1980. ISBN: 9780810106055. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon ———. The Frege Reader. Edited by Michael Beaney. Blackwell Publishing, 1997. ISBN: 9780631194453.

Buy at Amazon Russell, Bertrand. The Problems of Philosophy. Wilder Publications, 2009. ISBN: 9781604595130.

Buy at Amazon Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Tractatus Logico-Philosphicus. Translated by D. F. Pears and B. F. McGuiness. Humanities Press International, 1992. ISBN: 9780391036086.

Buy at Amazon ———. Philosophical Investigations. 4th ed. Translated by G. E. M. Anscombe, P. M. S. Hacker, and Joachim Schulte. Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. ISBN: 9781405159289.

Buy at Amazon Moore, G. E. Principia Ethica. 2nd ed. Edited by Thomas Baldwin. Cambridge University Press, 1994. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Ayer, Alfred Jules. Language, Truth and Logic. 2nd ed. Dover Publications, 1952. ISBN: 9780486200101.

Buy at Amazon Ryle, Gilbert. The Concept of Mind. University Of Chicago Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780226732961.

Buy at Amazon Austin, J. L. Sense and Sensibilia. 2nd ed. Edited by G. J. Warnock. Oxford University Press, 1962. ISBN: 9780195003079.

For further detail, please see the Readings section.