PHIL 3180 - Origins of 20th Century Philosophy

(KCM-AS)

Spring. 4 credits.

Prerequisite: PHIL 2310 (or equivalent) or permission of instructor. Intended primarily for: undergraduate Philosophy majors/minors, and graduate students.

H. Hodes.

Writings about mind, language, logic, mathematics and knowledge from 1872 to around 1920. We will focus on writings by Brentano, Meinong, Frege, and early work by Russell. Time permitting, we will also read some material by some others from that period (Twardowski, Husserl, Peirce, James, Wittgenstein, or Moore). There will also be some readings from the secondary literature.