Thur., Jan. 5: (no reading, first class).
Tue., Jan. 10: Carnap, Aufbau, Preface to 1st Edition
(pp. xv-xviii); §§1-5 (pp. 5-10); §§17-25 (pp. 31-43).
Thur., Jan. 12: Carnap, Aufbau, §§26-41 (pp. 47-70); §§46-60 (pp. 78-97).
Tue., Jan. 17: Carnap, Aufbau, §67 (pp. 107-9); §§
95-6 (pp. 152-4); §§98-103 (pp. 156-63); §157 (p. 246); §§
160-61 (pp. 254-7); §§165-9 (pp. 263-72).
Thur., Jan. 19: Carnap, Aufbau, §§175-83 (pp. 281-98).
Tue., Jan. 24: Carnap, The Unity of Science, §§1-3
and 6; Neurath, ``Protocol Sentences''; Carnap, ``On Protocol
Sentences.''
Thur., Jan. 26: ``The Methodological Character of Theoretical Concepts,'' §§1-6, beginning of §7 (through the paragraph that ends on top of p. 54), and §§8-10; Putnam, ``What Theories Are Not.''
Tue., Jan. 31: Goodman, Fact, Fiction, and Forecast,
§§2-3 (pp. 31-83).
Thur., Feb. 2: Goodman, Fact, Fiction, and Forecast, §4 (pp. 84-124).
Tue., Feb. 7: Quine, ``Epistemology Naturalized.''
Thur., Feb. 9: Carnap, Aufbau, §§125-8 (pp. 194-9) (and continued discussion of ``Epistemology Naturalized'').
Tue., Feb. 14: Popper, LSD, ch. 1 and 2 (pp. 3-34).
Thur., Feb. 16: Popper, LSD ch. 3 (pp. 37-56) (and first paper due).
Tue., Feb. 21: Popper, LSD, ch. 4 (pp. 57-73).
Thur., Feb. 23: Popper, LSD, ch. 5 (pp. 74-94).
Tue., Feb. 28: Popper, LSD, ch. 10 beginning and §79
(pp. 248-52); §82 (pp. 264-7); §84 through end (including
Addendum), pp. 273-82.
Thur., Mar. 2: Neurath, ``Pseudorationalism of Falsification''; Putnam ``The `Corroboration' of Theories''; Lakatos, ``Popper on Demarcation and Induction,'' through end of part I (pp. 241-52).
Tue., Mar. 7: Kuhn, SSR, ch. 1-5, pp. 1-51.
Thur., Mar. 9: Kuhn, SSR, ch. 6-8, pp. 52-91.
Tue., Mar. 14: Kuhn, SSR, ch. 9-10, pp. 92-135.
Thur., Mar. 16: Kuhn, SSR, ch. 11-13, pp. 136-73.
Thur., Mar. 23: final paper
due. (Original
assignment;
alternate
assignment.)