Reading group

The Lewis Reading Group meets on a weekly basis throughout the academic semester for the duration of the project.

 

Scheduled readings for Spring 2017

15 February 2017, 11am-12.30pm (ALB 4.050)
(1973) “Causation”, Journal of Philosophy, 70: 556–567.

22 February 2017, 2.30pm-4pm (ALB 4.027 [Fraser’s office])
(1968) “Counterpart Theory and Quantified Modal Logic”, Journal of Philosophy, 65: 113–126.
(1971) “Counterparts of Persons and Their Bodies”, Journal of Philosophy, 68: 203–211.

1 March 2017, 11.30am-1pm (ALB 4.050)
(1970) “Nominalistic Set Theory”, Noûs, 4: 225–240.
Nelson Goodman, ‘A World of Individuals’ in The Problem of Universals (University of Notre Dame Press, 1956), pp. 15-30; reprinted in P. Benacerraf and H. Putnam (eds.) Philosophy of Mathematics (Prentice-Hall, 1964), pp. 197-210.

8 March 2017
LEWIS WORKSHOP

15 March 2017, 11.30am-1pm (ALB 4.050)
(1969) Convention: A Philosophical Study, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, chapters 1-3.

22 March 2017, 11.30am-1pm (ALB 4.050)
(1969) Convention: A Philosophical Study, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, chapters 4-5.

29 March 2017, 3pm-4.30pm (ALB 2.016)
(1975) “Languages and Language”, in Keith Gunderson (ed.), Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume VII, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 3–35.

5 April 2017
EASTER BREAK

12 April 2017
EASTER BREAK

19 April 2017
EASTER BREAK

26 April 2017, 11.30am-1pm (ALB 4.050)
(1970) “General Semantics”, Synthese, 22: 18–67.

3 May 2017, 4pm-5.30pm (ALB G.019)
(1973) Counterfactuals, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1973, chapters 1-3.

10 May 2017, 11.30am-1pm (ALB 4.050)
(1973) Counterfactuals, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1973, chapters 4-6.

 

Scheduled readings for Autumn 2016

11 October 2016, 10.30am-12pm (ALB 3.040)
(1970) “How to Define Theoretical Terms”, Journal of Philosophy, 67: 427–446.
(2009) “Ramseyan Humility”; in David Braddon-Mitchell and Robert Nola (eds.), Conceptual Analysis and Philosophical Naturalism, Cambridge: MIT Press, pp. 203–222.

18 October 2016, 10.30am-12pm (ALB 3.040)
(1966) “An Argument for the Identity Theory”, Journal of Philosophy, 63: 17–25.

(1972) “Psychophysical and Theoretical Identifications”, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 50: 249–258.

25 October 2016, 10.30am-12pm (ALB 3.040)
(1984) “Putnam’s Paradox”, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 62: 221–236.

1 November 2016
READING WEEK

8 November 2016, 10.30am-12pm (ALB 3.040)
(1980) “Mad Pain and Martian Pain”, in Ned Block (ed.), Readings in Philosophy of Psychology, Volume I, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, pp. 216–32.
(1979) “Attitudes De Dicto and De Se”, Philosophical Review, 88: 513–543.

15 November 2016, 10.30am-12pm (ALB 3.040)
(1994) “Reduction of Mind”, in Samuel Guttenplan (ed.), A Companion to Philosophy of Mind, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, pp. 412–431.

22 November 2016, 10.30am-12pm (ALB 3.040)
(1995) “Should a Materialist Believe in Qualia?”, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 73: 140–144.

29 November 2016, 10.30am-12pm (ALB 3.040)
(1983) “New Work For a Theory of Universals”, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 61: 343–377.

6 December 2016
CANCELED

13 December 2016, 10.30am-12pm (ALB 3.040)
(1974) “Radical Interpretation”, Synthese, 23: 331–344.