PHI 156

Contemporary Analytic Philosophy

Term Paper. Consideration of central issues such as meaning/reference, analytic/synthetic, reductionism, formal and ordinary language, essential properties, ontological commitment, possible world semantics; influential works by philosophers such as Russell, Moore, Wittgenstein, Austin, Carnap, Quine, Putnam, Kripke, van Fraassen.

Units: 4.0

Hours: Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s);