Monday, March 07, 2005

Previous Readings in the Workshop

2002: Peter Geach, Mental Acts
2003: Gareth Evans, Varieties of Reference
2003: Jonathan Bennett, Rationality
2003-2004: Various articles on animal thought by Donald Davidson, Susan Hurley, and Jose Luis Bermudez
2004: P.F. Strawson, Individuals
2004-2005: David Wiggins, Sameness and Substance

We will begin reading Saul Kripke's Naming and Necessity in the spring.

3 comments:

Nat Hansen said...

Texts that have been proposed in the past (but that we have decided not to read, for whatever reason) include the following:

-Fodor, Hume Variations
-Parfit, Reasons and Persons
-Brandom, Making it Explicit
-Brewer, Perception and Reason
-McCulloch, The Life of the Mind
-Davidson, one of the new volumes
-Paul Churchland, Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind
-Tye, Consciousness and Persons

Nat Hansen said...

Two suggestions for next year:

Campbell, Past, Space and Self
Smith, The Problem of Perception

Nat Hansen said...

In keeping with our policy of (mostly) reading classics, I also suggest:

Quine, Word and Object