The unity of the proposition (preparation for BW9)

We will be meeting on Tuesdays 5pm-7pm, room #408, from March 24 to June 16, except June 9.

 

The list of literature below will be supplemented/amended as we go along.
The order of appearance is arbitrary.

[1] Jeffrey King, Scott Soames, Jeff Speaks, New Thinking About Propositions, OUP 2014 (excerpts).
[2] Lorraine Keller, ‘Constituents and constituency: the metaphysics of propositional constituency’, Canadian Journal of Philosophy 43:655-78 (2013).
[3] Mark Johnston, ‘Hylomorphism’, Journal of Philosophy 103:652-98 (2006).
[4] David Bell, ‘Some Kantian thoughts on propositional unity’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 75: 1–16 (2001).
[5] Richard G. Heck and Robert May, ‘The composition of thoughts’, Nous 45:126-66 (2011).
[6] Peter W Hanks, Propositional Content, Ch. 3, OUP, forthcoming.
[7] Gary Ostertag, ‘Two aspects of propositional unity’, Canadian Journal of Philosophy 43: 518-33 (2014).
[8] Bjørn Jespersen, ‘Recent work on structured meaning and propositional unity’, Philosophy Compass 7: 620-30 (2012).
[9] David Pears, ‘The relation between Wittgenstein’s picture theory of propositions and Russell’s theories of judgement’, Philosophical Review 86: 177–96 (1977).
[10] Graham Stevens, ‘Russell and the unity of the proposition’, Philosophy Compass 3: 491–506 (2008).
[11] Jeffrey King, ‘Propositional unity: what’s the problem, who has it and who solves it?’, Philosophical Studies 165: 71-93 (2013).
[12] Benjamin Schnieder, ‘Propositions united’, Dialectica 64: 289-301 (2010).

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