Readings | Proseminar in Philosophy II | Linguistics and Philosophy

The readings for each session are accompanied by a set of Readings Questions.

Course readings.
SESS #	TOPICS	READINGS
Part I: Language
1	Kripke	Kripke, Saul A. “Introductory.” Chapter 1 in Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language. Wiley-Blackwell, 1991. ISBN: 9780631135210. [Preview with Google Books] ———. “The Wittgensteinian Paradox.” Chapter 2 in Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language. Wiley-Blackwell, 1991. ISBN: 9780631135210. [Preview with Google Books]
2–3	Kripke	Kripke, Saul A. Naming and Necessity. Harvard University Press, 1980. ISBN: 9780674598461. [Preview with Google Books]
4	Grice	Grice, H.P. “Meaning.” (PDF) Philosophical Review 66, no. 3 (1957): 377–88. ———. “Logic and Conversation.” Chapter 2 in Studies in the Way of Words. Harvard University Press, 1991. ISBN: 9780674852716. [Preview with Google Books]. Additional readings in case you're interested: Stalnaker, Robert C. “Reference and Necessity.” Chapter 9 in Ways A World Might Be: Metaphysical and Anti-Metaphysical Essays. Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780199251490. [Preview with Google Books] Saul, Jennifer. “Dogwhistles, Political Manipulation and Philosophy of Language.” Chapter 13 in New Work on Speech Acts. Edited by Daniel Fogal, Daniel W. Harris, and Matt Moss. Oxford University Press, 2018. ISBN: 9780198738831. [Preview with Google Books]
5	Lewis	Lewis, David. “Languages and Language.” Chapter 11 in Philosophical Papers, Volume I. Oxford University Press, 1983. ISBN: 9780195032048. [Preview with Google Books]
Part II: Metaphysics
6–7	Lewis	Lewis, David. On the Plurality of Worlds. Wiley-Blackwell, 2001. ISBN: 9780631224266.
8	Williamson	Williamson, Timothy. “Necessary Existents.” Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements 51 (2002): 233–51.
9	Williams; Lewis	Williams, Bernard. “The Self and the Future.” (PDF) Philosophical Review 79, no. 2 (1970): 161–80. Lewis, David. “Survival and Identity.” Chapter 5 in Philosophical Papers, Volume I. Oxford University Press, 1983. ISBN: 9780195032048.
10	Williamson	Williamson, Timothy. Vagueness. Routledge, 1996. ISBN: 9780415139809. Optional Graff, Delia. “Shifting Sands: An Interest-Relative Theory of Vagueness.” (PDF) Philosophical Topics 28, no. 1 (2000): 45–81.
Part III: Mind
11	Johnston	Johnston, Mark. “The Obscure Object of Hallucination.” (PDF) Philosophical Studies 120, no. 1/3 (2004): 113–83.
12	Burge	Burge, Tyler. “Individualism and the Mental.” (PDF - 3MB) Midwest Studies in Philosophy 4, no. 1 (1979): 73–122.
Part IV: Epistemology
13	Quine; Stroud	Quine, W.V. “Epistemology Naturalized.” Chapter 3 in Ontological Relativity & Other Essays. Columbia University Press, 1969. ISBN: 9780231083577. [Preview with Google Books] Stroud, Barry. “Naturalized Epistemology.” Chapter 6 in The Significance of Philosophical Scepticism. Oxford University Press, 1984. ISBN: 9780198247616. [Preview with Google Books]
14	Gettier; Nozick	Gettier, Edmund L. “Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?” (PDF) Analysis 23, no. 6 (1963): 121–23. Nozick, Robert. Selections from “Knowledge and Skepticism.” Chapter 3 in Philosophical Explanations. Belknap Press, 1983. ISBN: 9780674664791. [Preview with Google Books]
15	Lewis; DeRose	Lewis, David. “Elusive Knowledge.” (PDF) Australasian Journal of Philosophy 74, no. 4 (1996): 549–67. DeRose, Keith. “Solving the Skeptical Problem.” Chapter 1 in The Appearance of Ignorance: Knowledge, Skepticism, and Context, Volume 2. Oxford University Press, 2018. ISBN: 9780199564477. [Preview with Google Books]
16	Briggs	Briggs, Rachael. “Distorted Reflection.” Philosophical Review 118, no. 1 (2009): 59–85.
17	Williamson	Williamson, Timothy. Knowledge and Its Limits. Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780199256563. [Preview with Google Books]
Part V: Moral and Political Philosophy
18	Foot	Foot, Philippa. “Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives.” Chapter 11 in Virtues and Vices and Other Essays in Moral Philosophy. Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780199252862.
19	Thomson	Thomson, Judith Jarvis. “Killing, Letting Die, and the Trolley Problem.” Chapter 61 in Ethical Theory: An Anthology. 2nd ed. Edited by Russ Shafer-Landau. Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. ISBN: 9780470671603.
20	Gibbard	Gibbard, Allan. “Analyses Broached,” “Normative Logic,” and “Normative Authority.” Chapters 3, 5, and 9 in Wise Choices, Apt Feelings: A Theory of Normative Judgment. Clarendon Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780198249849. [Preview with Google Books]
21	Nozick; Rawls	Nozick, Robert. Anarchy, State, and Utopia. Basic Books, 2013. ISBN: 9780465051007. [Preview with Google Books] Rawls, John. A Theory of Justice. Revised edition. Belknap Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780674000780. [Preview with Google Books]
22	Parfit	Parfit, Derek. “The Non-Identity Problem” and “The Repugnant Conclusion.” Chapters 16 and 17 in Reasons and Persons. Oxford University Press, 1986. ISBN: 9780198249085. [Preview with Google Books]