LARKIN:
Spring 2003
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DATE: 1-30-03
I.
Objectives
A.
Understand
the basic insights and advances of Frege’s Concept-Script
B.
Explicate
key arguments of Frege’s “On Sense and Reference”
II.
Discussion:
Russell’s Paradox
III.
Lecture: Frege’s Concept-Script and
Philosophy of Language
A.
The
Concept Script
1. Key insight
2. Advantages over Aristotelian
Logic
3. Some Example Translations
B.
Frege
as Founder of Analytic Philosophy
1. Invented the Main Tool
2. Realism and Empiricism
3. Linguistic Turn
C.
The
Sense/Reference Distinction
1. Frege’s Puzzle
2. Frege’s Solution
D.
The
Referent of a Sentence?
1. Frege’s Answer and Argument
2. Troublesome subordinate
clauses.
IV.
Discussion:
What is the meaning of a proper name?
V.
Next
Time
A.
Topic:
Russell’s Theory of Descriptions
B.
Reading: Russell, “On Denoting”
C.
Reading Questions: See Next
Lecture Skeleton