Syllabus/achievement requirements

Primary readings:

Bar-On, D. 2013. ‘Expressive Communication and Continuity Skepticism. Journal of Philosophy 110(6): 293-330.

Bruge, T. 1979. ‘Individualism and the Mental’. Reprinted in Foundations of Mind: Philosophical Essays, Volume 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Carston, R. 2010. ‘Metaphor: Ad Hoc Concepts, Literal Meaning and Mental Images’. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 110 (3): pp. 295-321.

Crane, T. 2013. ‘The Structure of Intentionality’. In The Objects of Thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Crane, T. 2013. ‘Thinking about Specific Things’. In The Objects of Thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Davidson, D. 1978. ‘What Metaphors Mean’. Critical Inquiry 5(1): pp. 31-47.

Davidson, D. 1984. ‘On Saying That’. In Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation. New York: Oxford University Press.

Eklund, M. 2005. ‘What Vagueness Consists In’. Philosophical Studies 125(1): pp. 27-60.

Evans, G. 1982. The Varieties of Reference. Edited by J. McDowell. New York: Oxford University Press. Chapters 1-5. (This book can be bought at Akademika bookstore).

Fodor, J. 1975. The Language of Thought. Hassocks: Harvester Press. Chapter 4 (especially pp. 174-195).

Frege, G. 1892. ‘On Sense and Reference’. In M. Beaney (ed.) The Frege Reader. Oxford: Blackwell.

Gillon, B. S. 1990. ‘Ambiguity, Generality, and Indeterminacy: Tests and Definitions’. Synthese 85(3): pp. 391-416.

McDowell, J. 1994. Mind and World. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Lecture III and postscript to lecture III.

Peacocke, C. 2001. ‘Does Perception have a Nonconceptual Content?’. The Journal of Philosophy 98(5): pp. 239-264.

Putnam, H. 1975. ‘’The Meaning of ‘Meaning’’. Reprinted in Mind, Languge and Reality (Philosophical Papers, Volume 2). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Quine, W. V. O. 1960. Word and Object. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Chapter 2.

Recanati, F. 2012. Mental Files. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapters 12-13, 16-17.

Rosenthal, D. 2010. ‘Expressing One’s Mind’. Acta Analytica 25(1): pp. 21-34.

Russell, B. 1912. ‘Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description’. In The Problems of Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Russell, B. 1919. ‘Propositions: What they are and how they mean’. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 2: pp. 1-43.

Travis, C. 2008. ‘On Constraints of Generality’. In Occasion-Sensitivity. Selected Essays. New York: Oxford University Press.

Wittgenstein, L. 2009. Philosophical Investigations. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, xi, §§111-222.

 

Secondary readings:

Crane, T. 1991. All the Difference in the World’. Philosophical Quarterly, 41: pp. 1–25.

Davidson, D. 1984. ‘On Saying That’. In Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation. New York: Oxford University Press.

Eklund, M. 2013. ‘Metaphysical Vaugeness and Metaphysical Indeterminacy’. Metaphysica 14(2): pp. 165-179.

Nanay, B. 2010. ‘Amodal Perception as Mental Imagery’. Philosophical Studies.

McDowell, J. 1984. ‘De Re Senses’. Philosophical Quarterly 34(136): pp. 283-294.

Prinz, J. 2002. Furnishing the Mind. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Chapters 1 and 2.

Recanati, F. 2012. Mental Files. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapters 1-4.

Sainsbury, R. M. 1996. ‘Concepts Without Boundaries’. In R. Keefe and P. Smith (eds.) Vagueness: A Reader. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Travis, C. 2011. ‘Thought’s Social Nature’. European Journal of Philosophy 19(4): pp. 585-606.

Wright, C. 1997. ‘The Indeterminacy of Translation’. In , p. 397-426. In B. Hale and c. Wright (eds.) A Companion to the Philosophy of Language. Oxford: Blackwell. Ch. 16

 

 

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