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
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]
———. The Frege Reader. Edited by Michael Beaney. Blackwell Publishing, 1997. ISBN: 9780631194453.
Russell, Bertrand. The Problems of Philosophy. Wilder Publications, 2009. ISBN: 9781604595130.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Tractatus Logico-Philosphicus. Translated by D. F. Pears and B. F. McGuiness. Humanities Press International, 1992. ISBN: 9780391036086.
———. Philosophical Investigations. 4th ed. Translated by G. E. M. Anscombe, P. M. S. Hacker, and Joachim Schulte. Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. ISBN: 9781405159289.
Moore, G. E. Principia Ethica. 2nd ed. Edited by Thomas Baldwin. Cambridge University Press, 1994. [Preview with Google Books]
Ayer, Alfred Jules. Language, Truth and Logic. 2nd ed. Dover Publications, 1952. ISBN: 9780486200101.
Ryle, Gilbert. The Concept of Mind. University Of Chicago Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780226732961.
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.