Analytic Philosophy: Spring 2010

(Revised Mar 15, 2010)

	Tuesday	Thursday
Jan 26, 28	About this course. A brief history of philosophy: where analytic philosophy fits and what it is.	Russell. "Our Knowledge of the External World"
Feb 2, 4	Russell. "On Denoting"	Strawson. "On Referring" Russell. "Mr. Strawson on Referring"
Feb 9, 11	Quine. "On What There Is"	Ayer. "The A Priori"
Feb 16, 18	Quine. "Two Dogmas of Empiricism"	Quine. "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" Frege. "On Sense and Reference"
Feb 23, 25	Frege. "On Sense and Reference"	Black. "The Identity of Indiscernibles"
Mar 2, 4	Discussion and review	Test I

Spring Break: No Classes

Mar 16, 18	Quine. “Identity, Ostension, Hypostasis”	Kripke. “Identity and Necessity.”
Mar 23, 25	Putnam. Meaning and Reference	Turing. "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"
Mar 30, Apr 1	Searle. "Minds, Brains, and Programs"	Easter Break – No Classes
Apr 6, 8	Lewis. “Mad Pain and Martian Pain.”	Block. “Inverted Earth”
Apr 13, 15	Jackson. “What Mary Didn’t Know”	Dennett. “Where Am I?”
Apr 20, 22	Olson. “An Argument for Animalism”	Parfit. “Personal Identity”
Apr 27, 29	Term Paper Proposals due Discussion and review	Test II
Apr 29, May 1	Sider. “Time Travel, Coincidences and Counterfactuals”	Bennett. “Spatio-Temporal Coincidence and the Grounding Problem”
May 4, 6	Student Presentations and Discussion	Student Presentations and Discussion
May 11, 13	Student Presentations and Discussion	No Classes