Phil 473/673: Lecture Notes

Not all topics or discussions in these notes may have been covered in class, and vice versa.

Topic 1: Introduction

Topic 2: Fodor, Chp 1: Propositional Attitudes

Topic 3: Fodor, Chp 2: Wide and Narrow Content (Greg)

Topic 4: Fodor, Chp 3: Individualism, Supervenience, and Holism (Jill)

Topic 5: Dretske: Knowledge and Information (Brendan)

Topic 6: Fodor, Chp 4: Misrepresentation (Nancy)

Topic 7: Cummins, Chp 1-3: Representation and Error (Joe)

Topic 8: Cummins, Chp 4-6: Use, Cause and Holism (Chris)

Topic 9: Cummins, Chp 7: Isomorphism and meaning (Ranil)

Topic 10: Block, Conceptual Role Semantics (Zora)

Topic 11: Fodor and Lepore: Holism (Baljinder)

Topic 12: Eliasmith: Neurosemantics (Matt)