Assignments

Paper 1 – Caesar (3 Pages)

Pick One of the following and explain its main claim(s), as far as this is possible in 3 pages.

Hale, Bob, and Crispin Wright. This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader."To Bury Caesar….." (PDF) st.andrews.ac.uk.

Heck, Jr., Richard G. This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader."The Julius Caesar Objection." (PDF) rgheck.frege.org.

Kemp, Gary. "Caesar from Frege's Perspective." Dialectica 59, no. 2 (2005): 179–99.

Rosen, Gideon, and Stephen Yablo. "Solving the Caesar Problem—with Metaphysics." July 2006. academia.edu.

Tappenden, Jamie. "The Caesar Problem in its Historical Context: Mathematical Background." Dialectica 59, no. 2 (2005): 237–64.

Paper 2 – Tractatus (6 Pages)

Pick One of the following and explain and assess its main claim(s), as far as this is possible in 6 pages.

Diamond, Cora. "Throwing Away the Ladder." Philosophy 63, no. 243 (1988): 5–27.

Glock, Hans Johann. "Truth in the Tractatus." Synthese 148, no. 2 (2006): 345–68.

Horwich, Paul. Wittgenstein's Metaphilosophy. Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780199661121. [Preview with Google Books]

Proops, Ian. "The Tractatus on Inference and Entailment." academia.edu.

Final Paper (15 Pages)

For details on possible topics for the final paper, please see Final Paper Topics (PDF).

Listed below are the readings that accompany the possible topics for the final paper.

Austin, J. L. Sense and Sensibilia. 2nd ed. Edited by G. J. Warnock. Oxford University Press, 1962. ISBN: 9780195003079.

Ayer, A. J. "Has Austin Refuted the Sense-datum Theory?" Synthese 17, no. 2 (1967): 117–40.

Ayer, Alfred Jules. Language, Truth and Logic. 2nd ed. Dover Publications, 1952. ISBN: 9780486200101.

Boghossian, Paul A. "The Status of Content." Philosophical Review 99, no. 2 (1990): 157–84.

Darwall, Stephen, Allan Gibbard, et al. "Toward Fin de siècle Ethics: Some Trends." Philosophical Review 101, no. 1 (1992): 115–89.

Divers, John, and Alexander Miller. "Why Expressivists about Value Should Not Love Minimalism about Truth." Analysis 54, no. 1 (1994): 12–19.

Donnellan, Keith S. "Reference and Definite Descriptions." Philosophical Review 77 (1966): 281–304.

Feldman, Fred. "The Open Question Argument: What it Isn't; and What it Is." Philosophical Issues 15, no. 1 (2005): 22–43.

Hawthorne, John, and David Manley. The Reference Book. Oxford University Press, 2014. ISBN: 9780198703044. [Preview with Google Books]

Horwich, Paul. "A Critique of Theoretical Philosophy." Chapter 2 in Wittgenstein's Metaphilosophy. Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780199661121. [Preview with Google Books]

Jackson, Frank. Perception: A Representative Theory. Cambridge University Press, 1977. ISBN: 9780521215503.

Kripke, Saul A. "Lecture IV: November 20, 1973." In Reference and Existence: The John Locke Lectures. Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780199928385. [Preview with Google Books]

———. "Speaker's Reference and Semantic Reference." Midwest Studies in Philosophy 2, no. 1 (1977): 255–76.

Lewis, David. "Ayer's First Empiricist Criterion of Meaning: Why Does it Fail?" Analysis 48, no. 1 (1988): 1–3.

———. "Individuation by Acquaintance and by Stipulation." Philosophical Review 92, no. 1 (1983): 3–32.

———. "Statements Partly about Observation." Chapter 9 in Papers in Philosophical Logic. Vol. 1. Cambridge University Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780521587884.

McDonald, Graham, and Crispin Wright, eds. "Scientific Realism, Observation and Verificationism." In Fact, Science and Morality: Essays on A. J. Ayer's Language, Truth and Logic. Blackwell, 1987. ISBN: 9780631145554.

Russell, Bertrand. "Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description." Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 11 (1910–1911): 108–28.

Smith, Michael. "Why Expressivists about Value should Love Minimalism about Truth." Analysis 54, no. 1 (1994): 1–11.

Sturgeon, Nicholas L. "Moore on Ethical Naturalism." Ethics 113, no. 3 (2003): 528–56.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophical Investigations. 4th ed. Translated by G. E. M. Anscombe, P. M. S. Hacker, and Joachim Schulte. Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. ISBN: 9781405159289.

Wright, Crispin. "The Verification Principle: Another Puncture—Another Patch." Mind 98, no. 392 (1989): 611–22.