PHIL 4233/5233: Philosophy of Language
MWF, 10:45-11:35; KIMP 301
August 26
August 28
Philosophy of Language, Chapter 1
August 30
Frege, "Sense and Reference" Notes
September 2
No Class -- Labor Day Holiday
September 4
Philosophy of Language, Chapter 2
September 6
Russell, "On Denoting" Notes
Undergraduate Paper Assignment #1
September 9
Cont'd
September 11
Strawson, "On Referring" Notes and Russell, "Mr. Strawson on Referring" Notes
September 13
Donnellan, "Reference and Definite Descriptions" Notes
September 16
Mill, "Of Names" Notes
September 18
Philosophy of Language, Chapter 3
Graduate Paper Assignment #1
September 20
Kripke, Naming and Necessity, Preface Notes
September 23
Kripke, Naming and Necessity, Lecture 1 Notes
September 25
Cont'd
September 27
Kripke, Naming and Necessity, Lecture 2 Notes
September 30
Philosophy of Language, Chapter 4
October 2
Kripke, Naming and Necessity, Lecture 2, Cont'd
October 4
Kripke, Naming and Necessity, Lecture 3 Notes
October 7
Cont'd
October 9
Putnam, "Meaning and Reference" Notes
October 11
Cont'd
October 14
Evans, "The Causal Theory of Names" Notes
October 16
Cont'd
October 18
Midterm Due
October 21
No Class -- Fall Break
October 23
Locke, "Of Words" Notes
October 25
Philosophy of Language, Chapter 5
October 28
Frege, "The Thought" Notes
October 30
Philosophy of Language, Chapter 6
November 1
Philosophy of Language, Chapter 8
November 4
Hempel, "Empiricist Criteria of Cognitive Significance" Notes
Undergraduate Paper Assignment #2
November 6
Quine, "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" Notes
November 8
Cont'd
November 11
Grice and Strawson, "In Defense of a Dogma" Notes
November 13
Grice, "Meaning" Notes
November 15
Philosophy of Language, Chapter 7
November 18
Grice, "Logic and Conversation" Notes
November 20
Philosophy of Language, Chapter 13
November 22
Philosophy of Language, Chapter 12
Optional: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/speech-acts/
November 25
Austin, "Performative Utterances" Notes
November 27
No Class -- Thanksgiving Break
November 29
No Class -- Thanksgiving Break
December 2
Searle, "The Structure of Illocutionary Acts" Notes
December 4
Philosophy of Language, Chapter 14
December 6
Camp, "Contextualism, Metaphor, and What is Said" Notes
December 9
Whiting, "It's Not What You Said, It's the Way You Said It" Notes
December 11
Cont'd
Final Paper Due
December 16
Final Exam (10:15 - 12:15)