Philosophy 332 (Philosphy of Language), Fall 2003

This was a very small class, so the professor did not put together a webpage. For completeness, I've put together a few notes.
Professor: Harold Hodes

Texts

A.P. Martinich, The Philosophy of Language, Fourth Edition, Oxford University Press, 2001.

Saul Kripke, Naming and Necessity, Harvard University Press, 1972.

A coursepack consisting of the following readings:
- Harman, Gilbert, "Three Levels of Meaning," from Journal of Philosophy, 1968, pp. 155-165.
- Harman, Gilbert, "Language, Thought, and Communication," from Language, Mind & Knowledge, Minnesota Studies in Philosophy of Science, 1975, pp. 166-182.
- Quine, W.V. "Methodological Reflections on Current Linguistic Theory," from Synthese, 1970, pp. 386-398.
- Kripke, Saul, "Speaker's Reference and Semantic Reference," from Contemporary Perspectives in the Philosophy of Language, 1977, University of Minnesota Press, pp. 6-27.
- Szabo, Zoltan, "Descriptions and Uniqueness," from Philosophical Studies, Vol 101:2000, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 29-57.
- Graff, Delia. "Descriptions as Predicates," from Philosophical Studies, Vol 102:2001, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp 1-42.

The following individual supplementary readings:
- Davidson, Donald, "Reply to Foster", Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation, Clarendon Press 2001, pp 171--179.
- Wiggins, David, "Meaning and truth conditions: from Frege's grand design to Davidson's". Chapter 1 of Companion to the Philosophy of Language, Crispin Wright and Bob Hale, Eds. Blackwell Publishers, 1999.
- Alston, William P. "Illocutionary acts and linguistic meaning", from Foundations of Speech Act Theory, Savas L Tsohatzides, ed. Routledge, 1994.

Reading Schedule

9/1: M intro
9/3: M 13,3
9/5: M 5
9/8: M 8; Harman "Three levels of Meaning"
9/12: Alston's "Illocutionary Acts..."
9/17: M 9,10
9/19: M 11
9/22: M 12
9/24: M 1
9/29: M intro to section 1, M 2; Quine's "Methodological Reflections"
10/1: M 4
10/3: M 6
10/6: M 7
10/8: M intro to section 3, M 14,15
10/24:M 16; Davidson "Reply to Foster"
10/27:M 17,18
10/29: Kripke from coursepack
10/31: Szabo
11/3: Graff
11/7: re-read M chap 13,19
11/10: N&N, lecture 1
11/12: N&N, lecture 2
M 22