19th and 20th - Fri May 9
We had class outside today!!! It was nice.
I collected papers and participation logs.
We finished up our discussion of Quine. Then I had y'all come up with some more questions for the final:
ORDINARY LANGUAGE PHILOSOPHERS
What is Strawson’s contention with Russell?
What did Austin mean by “performative utterances”?
What is the difference between Grice’s logical implications and conversational implicatures?
How do the views of Austin and the later Wittgenstein differ?
What is a Locutionary act?
What is an illocutionary act?
What are Grice’s four maxims?
What is the significance of “cancellability”?
What would be the illocutionary act performed by saying “You are stupid” (presuming I meant it)?
By bringing up an irrelevant topic in a conversation, what maxim are you violating?
According to Strawson, what sorts of things bear meanings? What sorts of things bear truth values? (Sentences, assertions/uses of sentences)
QUINE
What is Quine’s critique of the analytic/synthetic distinction?
What does Quine mean when he says that everything exists?
What are qualia?
How/why does Quine write off qualia?
Give an example of an extensional inference. (X is P. X = Y. So, Y is P.)
Did Quine doubt that there are mental or spiritual entities?
Does Quine agree with Russell on the relevance of ethics in philosophy?
What are Quine’s criticisms of (traditional) empiricism? (I.e. what are his “Two Dogmas”)
What abstract objects does Quine believe in?
What does it mean for two terms to be co-extensional?