Proseminar in Philosophy I

As taught in: Fall 2003

Series of three photos showing Frege, Wittgenstein, and Russell.

Series from left to right of Gottlob Frege, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Bertrand Russell. (Images courtesy of Zalta, Edward N., "Gottlob Frege ", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2004 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and Irvine, A. D., "Bertrand Russell", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2004 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.).)

Instructors:

Prof. Alex Byrne

MIT Course Number:

24.400

Level:

Graduate

Course Description

An intensive seminar on the foundations of analytic philosophy for first-year graduate students. A large selection of classic texts, from Frege's Foundations of Arithmetic to Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, is covered in this course.