Readings

Course readings schedule
DateReadings and information
Thursday, September 25: (no reading, first class). (Lecture on YouTube.)
Friday, September 26: World Cassowary Day
Part I: Carnap/Goodman/Quine
Tuesday, September 30: Carnap, Aufbau, Preface to 1st Edition (pp. xv–xviii); §§ 1–5 (pp. 5–10); §§17–25 (pp. 31–43). (Lecture on YouTube.)
Wednesday, October 1: (10:40am–12:15pm) Carnap, Aufbau, §§26–41 (pp. 47–70); §§46–60 (pp. 78–97). (Zoom only.) (Lecture on YouTube.)
Thursday, October 2: No class due to due to Yom Kippur.
Monday, October 6: (10:40am–12:15pm) Carnap, Aufbau, §61 (pp. 98–9); §67 (pp. 107–9); §75 (122-4); §78 (127–8); §§95–6 (pp. 152–4); §§98–103 (pp. 156–63); §§125–8 (pp. 194–9); §157 (p. 246); §§160–61 (pp. 254–7); §§165–9 (pp. 263–72). (Zoom only.) (Lecture on YouTube.)
Tuesday, October 7: No class due to due to the first day of Sukkot.
Thursday, October 9: Carnap, Aufbau, §§175–83 (pp. 281-98). (Lecture on YouTube.)
Monday, October 13: (10:40am–12:15pm) Carnap, The Unity of Science, §§1–3 and 6; Neurath, “Protocol Sentences”; Carnap, “On Protocol Sentences.” (Zoom only.) (Lecture on YouTube.)
Tuesday, October 14: No class due to due to Shemini Atzeret.
Thursday, October 16: Goodman, Fact, Fiction, and Forecast, ch. 2, §§1–3 and 5 (pp. 31–49 and 57–8). (Lecture on YouTube.)
Tuesday, October 21: Goodman, Fact, Fiction, and Forecast, ch. 3 and beginning of ch. 4 (pp. 59–99). (Lecture on YouTube.)
Thursday, October 23: Quine, “Epistemology Naturalized.”
Part II: Popper/Kuhn
Tuesday, October 28: Popper, LSD, ch. 1 and 2 (pp. 3–34). (Lecture on YouTube.)
Thursday, October 30: Popper, LSD ch. 3 (pp. 37–56). (Lecture on YouTube.)
Tuesday, November 4: Popper, LSD, ch. 4 (pp. 57–73) (and Midterm assignment — exam or paper — due). (Lecture on YouTube.)
Thursday, November 6: Popper, LSD, ch. 5 (pp. 74–94). (Lecture on YouTube.)
Tuesday, November 11: No class (Veterans Day)
Thursday, November 13: Popper, LSD, ch. 10 beginning and §79 (pp. 248–52); §82 (pp. 264–7); §84 through end (including Addendum), pp. 273–82. (Lecture on YouTube.)
Tuesday, November 18: Neurath, “Pseudorationalism of Falsification”; Putnam “The ‘Corroboration’ of Theories”; Lakatos, “Popper on Demarcation and Induction,” through end of part I (pp. 241–52). (Lecture on YouTube.)
Thursday, November 20: Kuhn, SSR, ch. 1–5, pp. 1–51. (Lecture on YouTube.)
Tuesday, November 25: Kuhn, SSR, ch. 6–8, pp. 52–91. (Lecture on YouTube.)
Thursday, November 27: No class (Thanksgiving)
Tuesday, December 2: Kuhn, SSR, ch. 9–10, pp. 92–135.
Thursday, December 4: Kuhn, SSR, ch. 11–13, pp. 136–73.
Tuesday, December 9: In-person final exam, and final assignment (exam or paper) due.