Reading Group

at the Department of Philosophy, King’s College London

Mondays at 13.00-15.00, in Seminar Room 605 (Philosophy Building)

We are reading the following papers:

• WEEK 1: Burge, Tyler (1973): ‘Reference and Proper Names’, in: Journal of Philosophy, 70, pp. 425 – 439.
• WEEK 2: Sawyer, Sarah (2010): ‘The Modified Predicate Theory of Proper Names’, in: S. Sawyer (ed.) New Waves in Philosophy of Language, Palgrave: MacMillan Press, pp. 206-225.
• WEEK 3 + 4: Cumming, Sam (2008): ‘Variabilism’, in: Philosophical Review, 117, pp. 525-554.
• WEEK 5 + 6: Elbourne, Paul (2005): Situations and Individuals, Cambridge: MA: MIT Press, Chap. 3 and 6.
• WEEK 7 + 8: Matushansky, Ora (2008): ‘On the linguistic complexity of proper names’, in: Linguistics and Philosophy, 31, pp. 573-627.
• WEEK 9 + 10: Maier, Emar (2009). ‘Proper names and indexicals trigger rigid presuppositions’, in: Journal of Semantics, 26, pp. 253-315.

Contact: dolf.rami@kcl.ac.uk

Link: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/philosophy/events/readinggroups/propernames.html