Philosophy 408: The Language Revolution

Russell Marcus, Instructor. Email me.

Hamilton College, Spring 2009

Class Notes

28: The New Nominalism (Devitt)

27: Linguistic Platonism (Katz)

25-6: Linguistic Conceptualism (Chomsky) (and slides)

24: Millikan's Evolutionary Biological Response to the Rule-Following Puzzle

21-3: The Private Language Argument (Wittgenstein and Kripke)

20: The New Intensionalism (Katz) (and slides)

19: Davidson

18: Tarski

17: Meaning Deflationism (Schiffer and Johnston)

16: IBS (Grice)

13-15: Meaning Holism (Quine) (and slides)

12: Logical Positivism (Ayer and Carnap)

11: Externalism and Natural Kinds (Putnam)

9-10: Kripke and the Revenge of 'Fido'-Fido (Direct Reference Semantics)

8: Donnellan's Referential/Attributive Distinction (and my slides)

7: Strawson's Presuppositionalism

6: Russell's Theory of Descriptions

5: Frege's Sense/Reference Distinction

4: Frege's Intensionalism

3: The Ontological Argument, and Locke and Mill on Language and Slides (1/27)

2: More Introduction and Slides (1/22)

1: Introduction (1/20)