Philosophy 408: The Language Revolution

Russell Marcus, Instructor. Email me.

Hamilton College, Spring 2009

Readings

This page includes links to all readings on the syllabus that are not found in the Martinich, as well as some other papers that may be interesting or useful to you in writing your papers.

Selections from Plato, Hume, Berkeley, and Wittgenstein on Language and Philosophy

Selections from Anselm, Gaunilo, Descartes, Caterus, Hume, and Kant on the Ontological Argument

A.J. Ayer, "The Principle of Verification"

Alex Byrne, "On Misinterpreting Kripke's Wittgenstein"

Rudolph Carnap, "Meaning Postulates"

Rudolph Carnap, "Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology"

Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass, Chapter 6

John W. Cook, "Wittgenstein on Privacy"

Donald Davidson, "True to the Facts"

Michael Devitt, "Linguistics is Not Psychology"

Michael Devitt, "Intuitions in Linguistics"

Hartry Field, "Quine and the Correspondence Theory"

Hartry Field, "Tarski's Theory of Truth"

Gottlob Frege, from Begriffsschrift

Alexander George, "Katz Astray"

H.P. Grice and P.F. Strawson, "In Defence of a Dogma"

Jakob Hohwy, "Deflationism about Truth and Meaning"

Mark Johnston, "The End of the Theory of Meaning"

Jerrold Katz, "The Refutation of Indeterminacy"

Jerrold Katz, "Introduction" and "Sense"

Jerrold Katz, "The New Intensionalism"

Jerrold Katz, "The Unfinished Chomskyan Revolution"

Saul Kripke, "Speaker Reference and Semantic Reference"

Oystein Linnebo, "Compositionality and Frege's Context Principle"

Fritz McDonald, "Linguistics, Psychology, and the Ontology of Language"

Hilary Putnam, "The Meaning of Meaning"

Hilary Putnam, "Is Semantics Possible?"

W.V. Quine, "Ontological Relativity"

Stephen Schiffer, "Overview of Remnants of Meaning"

Stephen Schiffer, Chapter 2 of Meaning

Jason Stanley, "Philosophy of Language in the Twentieth Century"

Jason Stanley, "Knowing How"

Benjamin Whorf, "Language, Thought, and Reality"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, "Meaning as Use"