Welcome Philosophy 195A students! 

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Assignments

Readings

Gottloeb Frege, "On Sense and Nominatum" (trans. H. Feigl)

Bertrand Russell, "On Denoting"

Keith Donnellan, "Reference and Definite Descriptions"

Saul Kripke, excerpts from "Naming and Necessity"

Hilary Putnam, "Meaning and Reference"

J.L. Austin, "Performative Utterances"

H.P. Grice, "Logic and Conversation"

John Perry, "The Problem of the Essential Indexical"

W.V. Quine, "Quantifiers and Propositional Attitudes"

Saul Kripke, "A Puzzle about Belief"

H.P. Grice, "Meaning"

Notes

[These are the notes I use in class. Please forgive the typos.]

Frege: Two kinds of meaning

Russell: The theory of descriptions

Donnellan: Two uses for definite descriptions

Kripke: The rejection of descriptivism

Putnam: Meaning ain't in the head

Austin: Doing by talking