second year course outlines 2012-2013 - School of Social Sciences ...

WEEK 6. READING WEEK: NO LECTURES OR TUTORIALS
WEEK 7. ORDINARY-LANGUAGE PHILOSOPHY:
Required Reading:
J. L. Austin, selections from Sense and Sensibilia; on the course website
Further Primary Reading
Austin, J.L., Sense and Sensibilia
Austin, J.L. Philosophical Papers, 2 nd ed.; available online at
http://www.archive.org/details/philosophicalpap013680mbp
Ayer, A.J., ‘Has Austin Refuted the Sense-Datum Theory?’, Synthese 17 (1967); repr
in Ayer’s Metaphysics and Commonsense [Ayer’s reply to Austin]
Caton, Charles E. (ed.) Philosophy and Ordinary Language [collection of important
essays]
Grice, H. P. ‘The Causal Theory of Perception’, repr in Grice’s Studies in the Way of
Words and available at http://www.hist-analytic.org
Grice, ‘Logic and Conversation’, repr in Grice’s Studies in the Way of Words
Ryle, Dilemmas
Ryle, ‘Systematically Misleading Expressions’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian
Society, 1931-32; repr. Rorty, LT
Ryle, ‘Ordinary Language’, available at http://www.hist-analytic.org/Ryle.htm
Rorty, LT
Strawson, P. F. ‘On Referring’; repr in Martinich and Sosa, AP; Martinich, POL;
Caton (ed.) Philosophy and Ordinary Language; and Strawson’s Logic-Linguistic Papers
Strawson, P. F. Logico-Linguistic Papers
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