Proseminar in philosophy i

Seminars: 2 sessions / week, 3 hours / session

Permission of the instructors.

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.

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.

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