Readings

Hamilton College, Fall 2008

Some Readings

Included here are some readings for your papers. Don't forget that my lecture notes are available. The Fisher text will be useful, as well. For further suggestions, see the course bibliography.

Conditionals

Lewis Carroll, "A Logical Paradox"

Nelson Goodman, "The Problem of Counterfactual Conditionals"

Douglas Kutach's Logic Class's Guide to Conditionals, and his bibliography, as of 2000

Three-Valued Logics

D.A. Bochvar, "On a Three-Valued Logical Calculus..."

L.E.J. Brouwer, "Consciousness, Philosophy, and Mathematics"

Michael Dummett, "The Philosophical Basis of Intuitionist Logic"

Arend Heyting, "Disputation"

Stephen Kleene, "On Notation for Ordinal Numbers"

A.N. Prior, "Three-Valued Logic and Future Contingents"

Hilary Putnam, "Three-Valued Logic"

Hilary Putnam, "The Logic of Quantum Mechanics"

Propositions and Logical Truths

George Bealer, "Propositions"

Katz, The Metaphysics of Meaning, Chapter 1

Arthur Pap, "The Laws of Logic"

Modal Logic

Ruth Barcan Marcus's first and second papers on modal logic

Robert Binkley, "The Surprise Examination in Modal Logic"

David Lewis, "Counterpart Theory and Propositional Attitudes"

John Nolt, from Logics

John Nolt, "What are Possible Worlds?"

W.V. Quine, "Reference and Modality"

Adequacy

Geoffrey Hunter, Metalogic, Chapter 21

Mendelson, Introduction to Mathematical Logic, Section 1.3

Quine and Ontological Commitment

Jody Azzouni, "On 'On What There Is'"

W.V. Quine, "Designation and Existence"

W.V. Quine, "Existence and Quantification"

W.V. Quine, "Logic and the Reification of Universals"

W.V. Quine, "On What There Is"

W.V. Quine, "Quantifiers and the Propositional Attitudes"

The Right Logic

A.J. Ayer, "The A Priori"

Karl Popper, "What Can Logic Do for Philosophy?" (with replies from William Kneale and A.J. Ayer)

Gillian Russell, "One True Logic?"

Bertrand Russell, "On Our Knowledge of General Principles"

Bertrand Russell, "How A Priori Knowledge is Possible"

Leslie Tharp, "Which Logic is the Right Logic?"