Graduate Seminar: Analytic Foundations

3 Credits.

This seminar will cover foundational work in the analytic tradition, from Frege and Russell to Kripke, Lewis, and their contemporaries. While the course will have a historical component, its primary goal is methodological: to familiarize students with discoveries and distinctions that have become an essential part of the working philosopher's toolkit. Topics will include: intensionality, quantification, and their interaction; context-sensitivity, vagueness, and opacity; semantics, meta-semantics, and pragmatics; naturalness, analysis, and resisting skepticism.