William S. Larkin

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

PHIL 309: Twentieth Century Analytic Philosophy

I. Syllabus (updated 4/1/03)

II. Assignments

A. Reading Questions

B. Take Home Midterm Essay

III. Handouts and Overheads

A. Analytic Schools

B. Frege’s Puzzle

C. “On Denoting” Arguments

D. Semantic Puzzles

E. Selections from Wittgenstein’s Tractatus

F. The Verification Principle

G. Ayer, “The Elimination of Metaphysics”

H. Carnap, “Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology”

I. Quine, “Two Dogmas of Empiricism”

IV. Lecture Skeletons (discontinued 4/1/03)

A. 1-14-03

B. 1-16-03

C. 1-21-03

D. 1-23-03

E. 1-28-03

F. 1-30-03

G. 2-04-03

H. 2-06-03

I. 2-11-03

J. 2-13-03

K. 2-18-03

L. 2-20-03

M. 2-25-03

N. 2-27-03

O. 3-03-03

P. 3-05-03

Q. 3-18-03

R. 3-20-03

S. 3-25-03

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V. Lecture Outlines

A. Overview of Twentieth Century Analytic Philosophy

B. Moore’s Refutation of Idealism

C. Russell, “On Denoting”

D.