Philosophy 1890d: Theories of Truth
Technical

Below please find the schedule for the additional meetings we shall have to discuss technical material. The meetings will be held Fridays, 2-3:30pm or so, in the instructor's office: 205 Gerard House.


15 February

Alfred Tarski, "The Concept of Truth in Formalized Languages", in Logic, Sematics, Metamathematics, ed. by J. Corcoran (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1958), pp. 152-278 (DjVu). We'll discuss the first two sections, and possibly start on the third.

22 February

Tarski, "The Concept of Truth in Formalized Languages", sections 3-4.

1 March

No Meeting: Instructor lecturing at UC-Davis

8 March

Canceled due to snow.

15 March

Tarski, "The Concept of Truth in Formalized Languages", sections 5-7.

22 March

No Meeting: Spring Break starts today!

29 March

No meeting: Spring Break

5 April

Handout: "Truth and Inductive Definability" (PDF). We'll aim to get through the first half.

12 April

Handout: "Truth and Inductive Definability" (PDF). We'll aim to get through the other half.

19 April

No Meeting: Instructor lecturing at University of Toronto

26 April

Anil Gupta, "Truth and Paradox", Journal of Philosophical Logic 11 (1982), pp. 1-60. We'll plan to start on this and see how far we get.

3 May

Anil Gupta, "Truth and Paradox", continued. If needed.

Richard Heck Department of Philosophy Brown University