20th Century Analytic Philosophy

(4 Credits)

This seminar will typically start with an examination of the origins of analytic philosophy -- focusing on the writings (about language, meaning, truth, logic, and ontology) of its founders: especially Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, and the early Ludwig Wittgenstein. After that – in order to see how analytic philosophy evolved from those beginnings – the seminar will study works by a selection of its most influential practitioners: perhaps the later Wittgenstein, and/or Rudolf Carnap, and/or Willard Van Orman Quine, and/or Saul Kripke.