Syllabus (pdf)

Class Notes

Handouts and Assignments

Readings

Links

Readings (alphabetically)

 

Edwin Allaire, "Tractatus 6.3751"

Aristotle, from De Interpretatione

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

A.J. Ayer, "The A Priori"

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

Ruth Barcan Marcus, "Essential Attribution"

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

Helen Beebee, “The Non-Governing Conception of Laws of Nature

Ned Block, "Troubles with Functionalism"

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

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

John Carroll, “The Humean Tradition

Lewis Carroll, "A Logical Paradox"

Lewis Carroll, "What the Tortoise Said to Achilles"

Paul Churchland, from Matter and Consciousness

Daniel Dennett, "Quining Qualia"

Daniel Dennett, "Intentional Systems"

Michael Dummett, "The Philosophical Basis of Intuitionist Logic"

Dorothy Edgington, "Do Conditionals Have Truth Conditions?"

Hartry Field, "Tarski's Theory of Truth"

Gottlob Frege, Preface to Begriffsschrift

Kurt Gödel, "The Ontological Argument"

Nelson Goodman, "The Problem of Counterfactual Conditionals"

Nelson Goodman, "The New Riddle of Induction"

H.P. Grice, "Logic and Conversation"

Norwood Hanson and Paul Feyerabend (responding), "Is There a Logic of Scientific Discovery?"

Carl Hempel, "Laws and Explanation"

Carl Hempel, The Philosophy of Natural Science

Carl Hempel, "Studies in the Logic of Confirmation I" and II

Arend Heyting, "Disputation"

Jaakko Hintikka, "The Once and Future Sea Fight"

Jaakko Hintikka, "Quantifiers vs Quantification Theory"

David Hume, "On Laws of Nature"

Geoffrey Hunter, Metalogic, Chapter 21

Kenneth Iverson - "Notation as a Tool of Thought"

Frank Jackson, "Classifying Conditionals"

Kalish and Montague, Rules of Inference

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

Stephen Kleene, "On Notation for Ordinal Numbers"

Saul Kripke, "Outline of a Theory of Truth"

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

David Lewis, “Humean Supervenience Debugged

Barry Loewer, “Humean Supervenience

Grzegorz Malinowski, "Many-Valued Logic"

Tim Maudlin, “Why be a Humean?

Norman Melchert, "Analysis"

Elliott Mendelson, Introduction to Mathematical Logic, Section 1.3

Arthur Pap, "The Laws of Logic"

Francis Jeffry Pelletier, "A History of Natural Deduction"

Paul Pietroski, "Logical Form"

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

Robert Price, "The Stroke Function in Natural Deduction"

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, "Deviant Logics"

W.V. Quine, "Existence and Quantification"

W.V. Quine, "Grammar"

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

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

W.V. Quine, "Reference and Modality"

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

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

W.V. Quine, "Ways of Paradox"

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"

Susan Schneider, “What is the Significance of the Intuition that Laws of Nature Govern?

John Searle, "Can Computers Think"

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"

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

Alfred Tarski, "The Concept of Truth in Formalized Languages"

Mary Tiles, "Logical Foundations of Set Theory and Mathematics"

Alan Turing, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"

Frank Van Dun, "The Logic of Law"

Joan Weiner, "Counterfactual Conundrum"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, "Some Remarks on Logical Form"

John Yarnelle, An Introduction to Transfinite Mathematics