台大哲學系博士班西方哲學組資格考邏輯與語言哲學書單
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Part 1 Philosophy of Language
1. Frege’s works [Total: 245 pages]
Frege, G. (1986), Foundations of Arithmetic, English translation by J. A. Austin (firstly
published in 1950), Oxford: Basil Blackwell. [119 pages]
----- (1892), ‘On Sense and Reference’, German origin under the title 'Über Sinn und
Bedeutung' published in Zeitschrift für Philosophie Kritik, 100 (1892), 25-50; English
translation by Max Black first appeared in Translations from the Philosophical
Writings of Gottlob Frege, P. Geach and M. Black (eds.), Blackwell, Oxford, 1952,
56-78; reprinted in Moore (1993), 23-42; also reprinted, with a new title ‘On Sense
and Meaning’, in Gottlob Frege’s Collected Papers on Mathematics, Logic, and
Philosophy, B. McGuinness (ed.), Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1984, 157-177.
----- (1892b), ‘On Concept and Object’, reprinted in Frege (1984), 182-94.
----- (1892/5), ‘Comments on Sense and Meaning’, reprinted in G. Frege, Posthumous
Writings, edited by H. Hermes, F. Kwmbartel and F. Kaulbach, translated by P. Long
and R. White, Oxford, Blackwell, 1979, 118-25.
----- (1891), ‘Function and Concept’, reprinted in Frege (1984), 137-56.
----- (1897), ‘Logic’, in Posthumous Writing, H. Hermes, et al. (eds.), Oxford: Basil
Blackwell, 1979, 126-151.
----- (1918/9), ‘Thought’, in Frege (1984), 351-72.
----- (1979), ‘Dialogue with Pünjer on Existence’, in Frege (1979), 53-67.
2. Wittgenstein, L. (1953), Philosophical Investigation, English translation by G. E. M.
Anscombe, second edition, Oxford: Blackwell. [Total: 272 pages]
3. Quine, W. V. (1960), Word and Object, Cambridge, Mass.: M. I. T. Press. [Total: 294
pages]
4. Davidson’s works [Total 206 pages]:
Davidson, D. (1967), ‘Truth and meaning’, Synthese, 17, 304-23; reprinted in Davidson
Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984, 17-36.
----- (1973), ‘Radical interpretation’, Dialectica 27 (1973), 304-23; reprinted in Davidson,
(1984), 125-39.
----- (1975), ‘Thought and talk’, reprinted in Davidson (1984), 155-70.
----- (1977), ‘Reality without reference’, Dialectica, 31, 247-53; reprinted in Davidson (1984),
215-25.
----- (1979), ‘The method of truth in metaphysics’, reprinted in Davidson (1984), 199-214.
----- (1982), ‘Communication and convention’, reprinted in Davidson (1984), 265-80.
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----- (1986), ‘A coherence theory of truth and knowledge’, in Truth and Interpretation:
Perspectives on the Philosophy of Donald Davidson, E. LePore (ed.), Oxford: Basil
Blackwell, 1986, 307-319.
----- (1990), ‘The structure and content of truth’, Journal of Philosophy 87, 279-328.
----- (1994), ‘The social aspect of language’, in The Philosophy of Michael Dummett,
McGuinnes, B., and Oliveri, G. (eds.), Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1994, 1-16.
----- (1996), ‘The Folly of trying to Define Truth’, Journal of Philosophy, 93/6 (1996),
263-78; reprinted in Truth, S. Blackburn and K. Simmons (eds.), Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1999, 308-22.
----- (1997), ‘Seeing through language’, Thought and Language, J. M. Preston (ed.),
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, 15-27.
----- (1999), ‘The Centrality of Truth’, in Truth and its Nature (If Any), J. Peregrin (ed.),
Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999, 105-115.
5. Austin and Grice [Total 286 pages]:
Austin, J.L. (1975), How to Do Things with Words, 2nd edition (first edition 1962), Oxford:
Oxford University Press, [169 pages].
Grice, H. P. (1989), Studies in the Way of Words, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press,
including the following chapters: [Total 117 pages]
Chapters 2 (‘Logic and Conversation’ (1967, 1987) pp.22-40);
Chapter 5 (‘Utterer’s meaning and intentions’, pp.86-116);
Chapter 6 (‘Utter’s meaning, sentence-meaning and word-meaning’, pp.117-137);
Chapter 14 (‘Meaning’ (1948; 1957,), pp. 213-223);
Chapter 17 (‘Presupposition and conversational implicature’, pp.269-282);
Chapter 18 (‘Meaning Revisited’ (1976; 1980), pp.283-303).
6. Kripke, S. A. (1972), Naming and Necessity, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press,
1980; originally appeared in Semantics of natural Language, D. Davidson and G. Harman
(eds.), D. Reidel, 1972, 253-355. [Total: 172 pages]
7. Dummett, M. (1991), The Logical Basis of Metaphysics, London: Duckworth. [Total 355
pages]
Part II: Logic
8. Goble, L., ed. (2001), The Blackwell Guide to Philosophical Logic,), Oxford: Blackwell,
Chapters 5-7 (pp.90-158); 11-14 (pp.224-335); 17-20 (pp.385-483). [Total: 280 pages]
9. van Dalen, D. (1997), Logic and Structure, third, augmented edition, Berlin: Springer.
[Total: 217 pages]
10. Enderton, H. B. (1977), Elements of Set Theory, New York: Academic Press. [Total: 279
pages]
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Some further suggestion:
1. Frege, G., 1879. Begriffsschrift (Concept Writing; Ideography), in From Frege to Godel,
edited by Jean van Heijenoort. Cambridge: Harvard U. Press, 1967.
2. Frege, G., 1893. The Basic Laws of Arithmetic (partial). Edited by M. Furth. Berkeley: U.
of California Press, 1867.
3. Frege, G., 1904. “What Is a Function,” from Frege—Philosophical Writings, edited by
Peter Geach. Oxford: Basil Blackwell 1970.
4. Frege, G., 1904. “Negation,” from Frege—Philosophical Writings, edited by Peter Geach.
Oxford: Basil Blackwell 1970.
5. Quine, W. V., 1980. From A Logical Point of View. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
6. Quine, W. V., 1970. Philosophy of Logic. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
7. Mendelson, E., 1964. Introduction to Mathematicla Logic. N. Y.: D. van Nostrand
Company, Inc.
8. Putnam, H., 1975. “The Meaning of ‘Meaning’,” in his Mind, Language and Reality.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 215-271.
9. Putnam, H., 1980. “Model and Reality”, in Putnam, Realism and Reason – Philosophical
Papers vol. 3. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
(B) Optional (not more than 3 or 4 from the following list.)
1. Russll and early Wittgenstein’s works [Total: 240 pages]:
Russell, B. (1905), ‘On Denoting’, Mind (1905), reprinted in Logic and Knowledge, R. C .
Marsh (ed.), London: George Allen & Unwin, 1956, 39-56.
----- (1918), ‘The Philosophy of Logical Atomism’, in Logic and Knowledge, R. C. Marsh
(ed.), London: George Allen & Unwin, 1956, 175-281.
----- (1919), ‘Descriptions’, an extract from Chapter XVI of Introduction to Mathematical
Philosophy, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1919, reprinted in Meaning and
Reference, A. W. Moore (ed.), Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993, 46-55.
----- (1911), ‘Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description’, in Mysticism and
Logic, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1911, 152-167.
Wittgenstien, L. (1921), Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Translated by D. F. Pears and B. F.
McGuinness, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1961. [14+75 pages]
Boolos, G., and Jeffrey, R. C., (2001), Computability and Logic, fourth edition, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press. [Total: 304 pages]
Doets, K. (1996), Basic Model Theory, Stanford, California: CSLI Publication. [Total: 130
pages]
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