Scehdule

Mondays

Week1:Frege: On Sense and Reference / Letter to Jourdain

Mon 9/11

Week2:Russell: Descriptions

Mon 9/18

Week3:Strawson: On Referring

Mon 9/25 Assignment 1 due.

Week4:Quine: Mind and Verbal Dispositions

Mon 10/2

Week5:Davidson: Truth and Meaning

Mon 10/9 Assignment 2 due

Week6:McDowell: On the Sense and Reference of a Proper Name

Mon 10/16

Week7:

Mon 10/23 Mid-Term Exam

Week8:Dummett: What does the Appeal to Use Do for the Theory of Meaning?

Mon 10/30 Assignment 3 due

Week9:Putnam: Meaning and Reference

Mon 11/6

Week10:Putnam: Meaning and Reference

Mon 11/13 Assignment 4 due

Week11:Kripke: Identity and Necessity

Mon 11/20

Week12:Kripke: Identity and Necessity

Mon 11/27 Assignment 5 Due

Week13:Wiggins: Putnam's Doctrine of Natural Kind Words and Frege's Doctrines of Sense, Reference, and Extension: Can they Cohere?

Mon 12/4

Week14:Wiggins: Putnam's Doctrine of Natural Kind Words and Frege's Doctrines of Sense, Reference, and Extension: Can they Cohere?

Mon 12/11 Assignment 6 due