Assigned study questions
The following study questions must be answered in writing. They will be collected at intervals throughout the term (see the schedule for details). The questions themselves may be found here.
| Reading | Questions |
|---|---|
| Grice, “Meaning” | 1, 6 |
| Searle, “Meaning” | 2, 5 |
| Lewis, “Coordination and Convention” | 1, 3 |
| Grice, “Logic and Conversation” | 1, 2, 9 |
| Turing, “Computing Machines and Intelligence” | 3, 4 |
| Dennett, “True Believers” | 2, 7 |
| Block, “Psychologism and Behaviorism” | 1, 4 |
| Searle, “Minds, Brains, and Programs” | 2, 3, 4 |
| Putnam, “Brains in a Vat” | 4, 5 |
| Putnam, “Meaning and Reference” | 3, 5 |
| Searle, “Are Meanings in the Head?” | 1 |
| Burge, “Individualism and the Mental” | 3, 5 |
| Quine, Word and Object, “Ontological Relativity” | 4, 6, 8 |
| Searle, “Indeterminism, Empiricism, and the First Person” | 1, 2, 3 |
| Davidson, “Radical Interpretation”, “Belief and…” | 1, 2, 6, 7 |
| Davidson, “A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs” | 1 |
| Dretske articles | 1, 4, 5, 7 |
| Fodor, “A Theory of Content I” | 1, 2 |
| Fodor, “A Theory of Content II” | 2, 4, 5 |