Required textbooks:

You will have to have paper copies of these books, which you will need to bring to class.

• Rene Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy, trans. Donald Cress (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1993), paperback; ISBN 0872201929. (There are three editions of this translation, and any of them is fine; in addition, you can also find it packaged with the Discourse on Method, by the same translator, and sometimes the used copies of this are actually cheaper. That's fine too.)
• Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty ed. and trans. G. E. M. Anscombe, G. H. von Wright, and Denis Paul (New York: Harper, 1972); paperback; ISBN 0061316865.
• Hilary Putnam, Reason, Truth, and History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981); paperback; ISBN 0521297761.
• J. L. Austin, Sense and Sensibilia, ed. G. J. Warnock (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1962); paperback; ISBN 0195003071.
• Richard Moran, Authority and Estrangement (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001); paperback; ISBN 0-691-08945-0.
• Daniel Dennett, Consciousness Explained (Boston: Little, Brown, 1991); paperback; ISBN 0316180661.

Optional textbook:

• Sydney Shoemaker, The First-Person Perspective and Other Essays (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996); paperback; ISBN 0521568714.

Most of these have been in print for a while, and you can find inexpensive used copies online.

Additional readings will be made available through the Philosophy Department reserve file (behind the desk in the reception area of the department office), and online.

Reading Assignments:

1. Aug. 19: Introduction.

   Optional prereading: TBA.

   (Optional reading really is optional.)