Tue., Sept. 30: (no reading, first class).
Thur., Oct. 2: Carnap, Aufbau, Preface to 1st Edition (pp. xv-xviii); §§1-5 (pp. 5-10); §§17-25 (pp. 31-43); §§ 26-31 (pp. 47-56).
Tue., Oct. 7: Carnap, Aufbau, §§32-41 (pp. 56-70);
§§46-60 (pp. 78-97); §§95-6 (pp. 152-4); §§98-103
(pp. 156-63).
Thur., Oct. 9: Carnap, Aufbau, §157 (p. 246); §§160-61 (pp. 254-7); §§165-9 (pp. 263-72); §§175-83 (pp. 281-98).
Tue., Oct. 14: Carnap, The Unity of Science, §§1-3 and 6; Neurath, ``Protocol Sentences''; Carnap, ``On Protocol Sentences.''
Thur., Oct. 16: ``The Methodological Character of Theoretical Concept,'' §§1-6, beginning of §7 (through the paragraph that ends on top of p. 54), and §§8-10; Putnam, ``What Theories Are Not.''
Tue., Oct. 21: Quine, ``Epistemology Naturalized.''
Thur., Oct. 23: Carnap, Aufbau, §67 (pp. 107-9) and §§ 125-8 (pp. 194-9) (and continued discussion of ``Epistemology Naturalized'').
Tue., Oct. 28: Popper, LSD, ch. 1 and 2 (pp. 3-34).
Thur., Oct. 30: Popper, LSD ch. 3 (pp. 37-56).
Tue., Nov. 4: Popper, LSD, ch. 4 (pp. 57-73).
Thur., Nov. 6: Popper, LSD, ch. 5 (pp. 74-94) (and first paper due).
Tue., Nov. 11: Popper, LSD, ch. 10 beginning and §79
(pp. 248-52); §82 (pp. 264-7); §84 through end (including
Addendum), pp. 273-82.
Thur., Nov. 13: Neurath, ``Pseudorationalism of Falsification''; Putnam ``The `Corroboration' of Theories''; Lakatos, ``Popper on Demarcation and Induction,'' through end of part I (pp. 241-52).
Tue., Nov. 18: Kuhn, SSR, ch. 1-5, pp. 1-51.
Thur., Nov. 20: Kuhn, SSR, ch. 6-8, pp. 52-91.
Tue., Nov. 25: Kuhn, SSR, ch. 9-10, pp. 92-135.
Thur., Nov. 27 no class (Thanksgiving).
Tue., Dec. 2: Kuhn, SSR, ch. 11-13, pp. 136-73.
Wed., Dec. 11: second paper
due.