Logic & Philosophy of Science

Course Description


Course:  SS 236;Phil 246
Name:  Phil of Logic
Description:  This course will examine the concept of extensionality, one of the most important notions in modern analytic philosophy. It will seek to determine what it is and why it is held by its exponents (for example, Frege and Quine) to be such an important desideratum of philosophical adequacy. Because this notion is taken for granted, and, in Peirce's words, often operates underground as an unclearly defined "leading principle" in philosophical theories, what's up? and why? are not easy questions to answer.