PHIL 309: Twentieth Century Analytic Philosophy

LARKIN: Spring 2003

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DATE:    2-27-03

 

I.                     Objectives

A.      Understand some of Main Points of Tractatus

B.       Identify Views that Anticipate Logical Positivism

C.       Discuss Wittgenstein’s ‘Mysticism’

 

 

II.                   Lecture:

A.      The Reduction of Truth-Functions

 

B.       The Picture Theory of Meaning

 

C.       The Limits of Extensional Language

 

 

III.                 Discussion:

Wittgenstein on What Cannot be Said

 

IV.                 Next Time

A.      Topic: Logical Atomism

B.       Reading:   Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

C.       Reading Questions:  No reading questions for Wittgenstein—that would just be cruel.