Syllabus

Class Notes

Handouts

Assignments

Homework Solutions

Readings

Links

Readings

 

On the syllabus (chronologically):

Nelson Goodman, "The Problem of Counterfactual Conditionals"

John Searle, "Can Computers Think"

Gottlob Frege, Preface to Begriffsschrift

W.V. Quine, "Grammar"

Aristotle, from De Interpretatione

W.V. Quine, "Deviant Logics"

Alfred Tarski, "The Semantic Conception of Truth and the Foundations of Semantics"

W.V. Quine, "On What There Is"

Jerrold Katz, "The Problem in Twentieth-Century Philosophy"

 

Additional readings (alphabetically):

Edwin Allaire, "Tractatus 6.3751"

James Austin, "Wittgenstein's Solution to the Color Exclusion Problem"

A.J. Ayer, "The A Priori"

Jody Azzouni, "On 'On What There Is'"

J.C. Beall, "At the Intersection of Truth and Falsity"

Ned Block, "Troubles with Functionalism"

D.A. Bochvar, "On a Three-Valued Logical Calculus..."

L.E.J. Brouwer, "Consciousness, Philosophy, and Mathematics"

Lewis Carroll, "A Logical Paradox"

Lewis Carroll, "What the Tortoise Said to Achilles"

Michael Dummett, "The Philosophical Basis of Intuitionist Logic"

Hartry Field, "Tarski's Theory of Truth"

H.P. Grice, "Logic and Conversation"

Jaakko Hintikka, "The Once and Future Sea Fight"

Jaakko Hintikka, "Quantifiers vs Quantification Theory"

Geoffrey Hunter, Metalogic, Chapter 21

Frank Jackson, "Classifying Conditionals"

Kalish and Montague, Rules of Inference

Stephen Kleene, "On Notation for Ordinal Numbers"

Douglas Kutach's Logic Class's Guide to Conditionals, and his bibliography, as of 2000

Norman Melchert, "Analysis"

Elliott Mendelson, Introduction to Mathematical Logic, Section 1.3

Arthur Pap, "The Laws of Logic"

Paul Pietroski, "Logical Form"

Karl Popper, "What Can Logic Do for Philosophy?" (with replies from William Kneale and A.J. Ayer)

A.N. Prior, "The Runabout Inference-Ticket"

A.N. Prior, "Three-Valued Logic and Future Contingents"

Hilary Putnam, "Three-Valued Logic"

Hilary Putnam, "The Logic of Quantum Mechanics"

W.V. Quine, "Designation and Existence"

W.V. Quine, "Existence and Quantification"

W.V. Quine, "Logic and the Reification of Universals"

W.V. Quine, "Reference and Modality"

W.V. Quine, "Quantifiers and the Propositional Attitudes"

W.V. Quine, "Two Dogmas of Empiricism"

Gillian Russell, "One True Logic?"

Bertrand Russell, "On Denoting"

Bertrand Russell, "On Our Knowledge of General Principles"

Bertrand Russell, "How A Priori Knowledge is Possible"

Wifrid Sellars, "Does Empirical Knowledge Have a Foundation?"

Gila Sher, "Ways of Branching Quantifiers"

Ernest Sosa, "The Raft and the Pyramid"

Peter Unger, "Why There are no People"

Joan Weiner, "Counterfactual Conundrum"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, "Some Remarks on Logical Form"