Week
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Topic
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Reading
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Reference
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Introduction
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Mill on Reference
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Mill ‘Of Names’ (from A System of Logic)
Meinong ‘The Theory of Objects’
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3
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Frege on Sense
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Frege ‘Sense and Reference’
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4
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Descriptivism
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Russell ‘On Denoting’
Donellan ‘Reference and Definite Descriptions’
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5
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Names and Descriptions
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Russell ‘On Denoting’
Searle, ‘Proper Names’
Kripke (extract from) ‘Naming and Necessity’
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6
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Causal Theory
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Kripke (extract from) ‘Naming and Necessity’
Putnam (extract from) ‘The Meaning of ‘Meaning’’
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Meaning
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7
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Meanings as Entities
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Frege
‘The
Thought’
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8
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Skepticism
1:
Quine
2:
Wittgenstein
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Wittgenstein (extract from) Philosophical Investigations
Quine (extract from) Word and Object
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9
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Naturalising content
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10
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Truth Conditional Semantics
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Davidson ‘Truth and Meaning’
Fodor,
JD. (extract from) Semantics: Theories of Meaning in Generative Grammar
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Action
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11
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Pragmatics
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Stalnaker ‘Pragmatics’
Barwise/Perry ‘Semantic Innocence and Uncompromising Situations’
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12
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Intention and Implicature
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Grice ‘Logic and Conversation’
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13
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Speech Acts
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Austin (extract from) How to Do Things with Words,
Searle ‘How Performatives Work’.
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