| Week |
Date |
Assignment |
| 1 |
1/20 |
Introductory class - no assignment |
| 2 |
1/25 |
Introduction and Chapter 1, “A Formal Language with Non-distribute Plurals:
Preliminary Considerations,” pp. 1 -18 |
| 1/27 |
Sections I - IV (pp. 89 - 96) in:
Massey, Gerald J. “Tom, Dick, and Harry, and All the King’s Men,”
American Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 13 no. 2
(April, 1976), pp. 89-107.
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| 3 |
2/1 |
Boolos, George. “To Be is to be a Value of a Variable (or to be Some Values of
Some Variables), ” Journal of Philosophy,
(August, 1984), pp. 430 - 438.
Download following instructions for 1/27. |
| 2/3 |
Boolos, continued, to p. 449 |
| 2/5 |
Friday, February 5, is the last day to add or drop a
class or to change the basis of grading. |
| 4 |
2/8 |
Begin Chapter 2, “Against Singularism,” pp. 19 - 42 |
| 2/10 |
Chapter 2, continued, pp. 19-54 |
| 5 |
2/15 |
Begin Chapter 3, “Semantics,” pp. 55 - 68 |
| 2/17 |
Chapter 3, continued, to p. 77 |
| 6 |
2/22 |
Begin Chapter 4, “Natural Language Issues,” pp. 78 - 92 |
| 2/24 |
Chapter 4, continued, to p. 102 |
| 7 |
3/1 |
Chapter 5, “Set Theoretic Semantics,” pp. 103 - 118 |
| 3/3 |
Begin Chapter 6, “ Among,”
pp. 119 - 128 |
| 8 |
3/8 |
Chapter 6, continued, to p. 149 |
| 3/10 |
Chapter 6, continued, to p. 161 |
| 9 |
3/15 |
Begin Chapter 7, “THE:
The Basic Logic,” pp. 162 - 173 |
| 3/17 |
Chapter 7, continued, to p. 184 |
| 10 |
3/22 |
Begin Chapter 8, “THE:
Context Sensitivity,” pp. 185 - 197 |
| 3/24 |
Chapter 8, continued, to p. 206 |
| 11 |
3/29 |
Begin Chapter 9, “Pronouns,” pp. 207 - 216 |
| 3/31 |
CESAR CHAVEZ HOLIDAY |
|
SPRING BREAK |
| 12 |
4/12 |
Chapter 9, continued, to p. 231 |
| 4/14 |
Chapter 9, continued, to p. 239 |
| 13 |
4/19 |
Chapter 10, “Plurals and Events,” pp. 240 - 255 |
| 4/21 |
No class meeting: FURLOUGH DAY |
| 14 |
4/26 |
No class meeting: FURLOUGH DAY |
| 4/28 |
Chapter 10, continued, pp. 240 - 255 |
| 15 |
5/5 |
(Catch up? related reading?) |
| 5/7 |
No class meeting: FURLOUGH DAY |