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Phil 335 20th Century Analytic PhilosophyFall 2012 Prof. Kevin C. Klement (Please call me Kevin.)

Mon., Wed., Fri. 1:252:15pmin 206 Bartlett

Course description: Analytic philosophy is a movement in, and style of, philosophy that began inBritain and America in the early 20th century, and continues to dominate academic philosophy

in the English-speaking world. In this course, we examine some of the most important worksof this movement. The topics well cover include philosophical analysis, logical form, logicalatomism, logical positivism and the linguistic turn in philosophy.

Contact info: My office is 358 Bartlett Hall. My office phone is 545-5784. My office hours are Mon-days 2:303:30pm, Wednesdays 12:151:15pm and by appt. You may also e-mail me atklement@philos.umass.edu.

Webpages: We have a homepage at http://courses.umass.edu/phil335/but most content is onourMoodlepage: https://moodle.umass.edu/course/view.php?id=249.

Texts: These are available at the Textbook annex; electronic copies are also on Moodle.

A. J. Ayer,Language, Truth and Logic(Dover 1952).

Saul Kripke,Naming and Necessity(Harvard Univ. Press 1982).

Bertrand Russell,The Philosophy of Logical Atomism(Open Court 1985).

Ludwig Wittgenstein,Philosophical Investigations(rev. 4th ed., WileyBlackwell 2009).

Course requirements: Your final grade is based on the following: (1) in-class participation (worth upto 50/600 pts.), (2) four take-home exams (worth up to 100 pts. each/600), and (3) regular quizzes(worth up to 150/600 pts., curved).

Exams: You will be given four take-home exams, one for each major work we will be reading.These will be in essay format: in effect, you will be writing several short papers. For someexams, I may ask you to write one long (56 page) essay, and for others I may ask you towrite two or more shorter (e.g., 23 page) essays. You will usually have a choice of topics orquestions to answer, depending on the exam. The exams will be handed out approximatelytwo weeks ahead of their due dates, which are listedtentativelyon the reverse side. Examsmust be submitted electronically through Moodle.

As a condition of continued enrollment in this course, you agree to submit all exams to theTurnitin service for textual comparison or originality review for the detection of possibleplagiarism. All submitted assignments will be included in the UMass Amherst dedicateddatabase of assignments at Turnitin and will be used solely for the purpose of checking for

possible plagiarism during the grading process and during this term and in the future.Quizzes: Just about every week, I will be giving a short 510 minute quiz on the material

covered since the previous quiz. These quizzes may require you to provide one or twoshortessays (45 sentences), including defining terms, clarifying arguments, and explain-ing/discussing main philosophical theses, or may consist of multiple choice questions cov-ering the philosophical views or texts in the assigned reading for that class session.

Participation: You are expected to attend class regularly and participate by asking questions,and raising points for discussion.

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Reading Schedule (Subject to change!)Note: Asterisks * mark likely quiz dates.

Date Material CoveredW Sept 5 Course introductionF Sept 7 Background lectures

M Sept 10 Background lecturesW Sept 12* Russell,The Philosophy of Logical Atomism, Lecture I (pp. 3549)

F Sept 14 Russell,The Philosophy of Logical Atomism, Lecture II (pp. 4985)M Sept 17 Russell,The Philosophy of Logical Atomism, Lecture III (pp. 6579)W Sept 19 Russell,The Philosophy of Logical Atomism, Lecture IV (pp. 7993)F Sept 21* Russell,The Philosophy of Logical Atomism, Lecture V (pp. 93108)M Sept 24 Russell,The Philosophy of Logical Atomism, Lecture VI (pp. 109123)W Sept 26 Russell,The Philosophy of Logical Atomism, Lecture VII (pp. 123140)F Sept 28* Russell,The Philosophy of Logical Atomism, Lecture VIII (pp. 141-155)M Oct 1 Russell,The Philosophy of Logical Atomism, recapW Oct 3 Transition lecture: Logical Positivism

F Oct 5 Ayer,Language, Truth and Logic, Chap. I (pp. 3345);EXAM 1 DUEM Oct 8 Columbus day. Class moved to Tuesday.

Tu Oct 9* Ayer,Language, Truth and Logic, Chap. II (pp. 4659)W Oct 10 Ayer,Language, Truth and Logic, Chap. III (pp. 5971)F Oct 12 Ayer,Language, Truth and Logic, Chap. IV (pp. 7187)

M Oct 15* Ayer,Language, Truth and Logic, Chap. V (pp. 87102)W Oct 17 Ayer,Language, Truth and Logic, Chap. VI (pp. 102120)F Oct 19 Ayer,Language, Truth and Logic, Chap. VII (pp. 120133)

M Oct 22* Ayer,Language, Truth and Logic, Chap. VIII (pp. 133153)W Oct 24 Ayer,Language, Truth and Logic, recapF Oct 26 Transition lecture: The early and later Wittgenstein

M Oct 29 Wittgenstein,Philosophical Investigations, 121;EXAM 2 DUEW Oct 31 Wittgenstein,Philosophical Investigations, 2237F Nov 2* Wittgenstein,Philosophical Investigations, 3888M Nov 5 Wittgenstein,Philosophical Investigations, 89142W Nov 7 Wittgenstein,Philosophical Investigations, 143242F Nov 9* Wittgenstein,Philosophical Investigations, 243317M Nov 12 Veterans day. No class.W Nov 14 Wittgenstein,Philosophical Investigations, recapF Nov 16 Transition lecture: Late 20th Century Analytic PhilosophyM Nov 19 Kripke,Naming and Necessity, start of lecture I (pp. 2247); EXAM 3 DUEW Nov 21 Kripke,Naming and Necessity, end of lecture I (pp. 4770)F Nov 23 Thanksgiving break. No class.

M Nov 26* Kripke,Naming and Necessity, start of lecture II (pp. 7191)W Nov 28 Kripke,Naming and Necessity, end of lecture II (pp. 91105)F Nov 30 Kripke,Naming and Necessity, start of lecture III (pp. 106126)M Dec 3* Kripke,Naming and Necessity, middle of lecture III (pp. 126140)W Dec 5 Kripke,Naming and Necessity, end of lecture III (pp. 140155)F Dec 7 Kripke,Naming and Necessity, recapFINALS EXAM 4 DUE by 5pm on Sat., Dec. 15th