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

Loux, Michael and D. Zimmerman (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics, sections II
on
Existence and Identity and III on Modality and Possible Worlds
Lycan, William. Philosophy of Language, chs 2-4 [very accessible and at times blackly comic
introduction; highly recommended]
McCulloch, Gregory. The Game of the Name, chs1-4 [very accessible introduction from a
Fregean
perspective]
Robert Martin, The Meaning of Language, chs 13-20
Schwartz, chs. 6-7
WEEK 11. PUTNAM ON MEANING AND REFERENCE
Required Reading
Hilary Putnam, ‘Meaning and Reference’, on the course website; originally in The Journal of
Philosophy, Vol. 70, No. 19 (Nov. 8, 1973): 699-711.
Further Primary Reading
Hilary Putnam, ‘The Meaning of “Meaning” ’, widely reprinted in philosophy of mind and
language
anthologies; also repr. in Putnam’s Mind, Language and Reality. Philosophical Papers,
vol. 2 (Cambridge, 1975) and Andrew Pessin and Sanford Goldberg (eds.), The Twin
Earth Chronicles
Andrew Pessin and Sanford Goldberg (eds.), The Twin Earth Chronicles
Tyler Burge, ‘Other Bodies’, in A. Woodfield (ed.) Thought and Object; repr. in
Pessin and Goldberg (eds.) The Twin Earth Chronicles and in Burge’s Foundations of
Mind
Tim Crane, ‘All the Difference in the World’, The Philosophical Quarterly 41 (1991): 1-26;
repr. in
Pessin and Goldberg (eds.) The Twin Earth Chronicles
Colin McGinn, ‘Content’, ch 5 of McGinn’s The Character of Mind, 2 nd ed.
Gregory McCulloch, The Mind and Its World, chs 7 & 8
John Searle, Intentionality, pp. 197-208; repr. in Pessin and Goldberg, op. cit.
H. Putnam, Representation and Reality, ch 2.
Jaegwon Kim, Philosophy of Mind, 1 st ed., ch 8
Jaegwon Kim, Philosophy of Mind, 2 nd ed., ch 9
Robert Martin, The Meaning of Language, ch 16
Simon Blackburn, Spreading the Word. Groundings in the Philosophy of Language, ch 9
Schwartz, ch. 7
WEEK 12. LEWIS ON TIME TRAVEL
Required Reading
David Lewis, ‘The Paradoxes of Time Travel’, available on the course website:
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