Philosophy 408: The Language Revolution
Russell Marcus, Instructor. Email me.
Hamilton College, Spring 2009
Anselm
Hume
Carroll
Locke
Frege
Strawson
Kripke
Evans
Tarski
Grice
Katz
Lewis
Course Material
Links to Sites I Recommend for This Course
Jonathan Swift, "Getting Rid of Words"
Whorf, "Language, Thought, and Reality"
Linnebo, on Frege's Context Principle
MIT's Philosophy and Linguistics Courses
Kent Bach, Comparing Frege and Russell
Kent Bach's website, with lots of helpful papers
Marcus and Kripke and Reference
An Article on Experimental Philosophy
Jakob Hohwy on Meaning Deflationism
The Monkey's Paw, by W.W. Jacobs
Chalmers' "Foundations of Two-Dimensional Semantics
Here's the Sandia report on how to deter human intrusion on the nuclear waste repository. See especially pp 150 et seq. and 262 et seq. Also, here is the DOE report; see pp 29 et seq.
Review of Ruth Millikan's White Queen Psychology and Other Essays for Alice
Lewis Carroll, "What the Tortoise Said to Achilles"
Intensions and Extended Minds: Fodor on Clark
Jason Stanley on Knowing-how and Knowing-that
Other Philosophy Links
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Philosophy Research Network, home to philosophy papers in progress
The Science of Scientific Writing
Eddie Yeghiayan's Philosophy Bibliographies
A list of journals and conferences appropriate for undergraduates
Eudaimonia, the Georgetown undergraduate journal
Brian Leiter's Philosophy Blog
Thoughts, Arguments and Rants, Brian Weatherson's Philosophy Blog
The American Philosophical Association
The BBC's In Our Time Radio Show, including a philosophy quiz
TED, a Collection of Interesting Videos
Fun
Harsh Reviews; I would have added Section 11 of Kripke's article on substitutional quantification
Philosophy and Settlers, T-Shirts and more!
From, "What Philosophy Majors Do After College"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy
The Gutless Meanies, with guest stars, Minstrel!
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Descartes
Kant
Wittgenstein
Mill
Russell
Ayer
Putnam
Searle
Quine
Davidson
Millikan
Chomsky