1. Charitha Herath
Senior Lecturer
Department of Philosophy & Psychology
University of Peradeniya
Peradeniya
charithaherath.lk
charith9@yahoo.com
Office Hours : Wednesday 3-5 pm
Thursday 1-3 pm
@ Room # 9 New A/T
Lecture Time : Wednesday (10 – 12)
Discussion class : Thursday (9-10)
Course Description
The aim of the course is to introduce Marxist
Philosophy as a Methodology and as a non-
conventional / unorthodox philosophical
system. The course will be contained classical
Marxist philosophy and the Post-Marxist
theoretical developments of the 20th century,
namely, the philosophies of Lenin, Gramsci,
Adono, Althusser, Habermas, the Frankfurt
School, Derrida and the Post-Marxist of
Fredrick Jamson.
Readings:
……. Afanasyer, V. (1980) Marxist Philosophy.
Moscow, Process Publishers
…….McMury Jhon (1978) The Structure of
Marx’s World View. Princeton University
Press
…….Livingstone, R. and Brenton, G. (1984)
Early Writings of Marx Harmondworth,
Penguin
…….Propper, Karl (1969). The Poverty of
Historicism.Routledge & Kegan Paul
…….Derrida, J. (1994) Specters of Marx tr.
Peggy Kamuf. London Routledge & Kegan Paul
…….මල්ලිකාරච්චි, ඩෙස්මන් (2003) මාක්ස්වාදි රචනා.
ශාස්ත්ඩරොදය මුදනාලය කුලියාපිටිය
…….මල්ලිකාරච්චි, ඩෙස්මන් (2003) ඩ ොතම බුදුන්
වහනඩසේඩේ සහ කාල්මාක්ස්ඩේ මිනිසා පිලිබද සන්කල්පය
ශාස්ත්ඩරොදය මුදනාලය කුලියාපිටිය
Week 1
Historical Background
මාක්ස්වාදඩේ පසුබිම
Week 2
Dialectic Materialism
Matter and Consciousness
අප ොහක ප ෞතිකවාදය
Week 3
Historical Materialism
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Concept of man
ñksid ms<sno ixl,amh
Concept of State
rdcHh ms<sno ixl,amh
Week 4
Political Economic of Marx
udlaiajdÈ foaYmd,k wdra:sl úoHdj
Week 5
Reading ‘Capital’
m%d.aOkh lshùu
Week 6
‘On Ideology’^u;jdoh& ‘On Religion’
^wd.u&
First ASSIGNMENT (Dueon 9th of April 2016)
Week 7
Philosophy of Lenin
f,kskaf.a oraYkh
Week 8
Antonio Gramsci as the Philosopher of
Super Structure
wkaf;daksfhda .%dïiaÑ WmÍ jHqyfha
oraYkslhd f,i
Week 9
Western Marxism : Frankfurt School
ngysr udlaiajdoh: m%ekalamraâ .erel=<h
Week 10
Louis Althusser’s contributions to
Marxism
udlaiajdohg Æù w,a;=ira fj;ska isª jQ
tl;=lsÍï
Second ASSIGNMENT (Dueon 21st of May 2016)
Week 11
The Critical Theory of Habermas
ynraudishdkq úpdr kHdh
Week 12
Post- Marxist Readings : Derrida
mYapd;a udlaiajdo lshùï:fvÍvd
^wdrdê; foaYkh uydpdrah fviauka
u,a,sldrÉÑ uy;d&
Week 13
Post- Marxist Readings : Fredric Jameson

2. mYapd;a udlaiajdo lshùï: fmâÍla fcïika
Week 14
Post Marxist Readings: David Harvey
mYapd;a udlaiajdo lshùï : ú,shï ydù
Week 15
Criticisms on Marxism
udlaiajdohg t,a,jQ úfõpk

3. PHIL 429/529

4. 20 Century Analytic Philosophy Spring 2015 COURSE SCHEDULE
Readings are to be completed for the date
indicated, not for the following class period. Full
bibliographic information is provided for articles
available by password through the course website
(indicated with an asterisk). In the case of
reprinted articles, the original date of publication
is provided in square brackets following the title.
Historical Background
Tu 1-13 Rationalism and Empiricism (no reading)
Th 1-15 Kant, Hegel, and British Idealism (no
reading)
Logical Atomism
Tu 1-20 Th 1-22 Tu 1-27 Th 1-29
Bertrand Russell, “The Philosophy of Logical
Atomism, I-II,” The Monist 28, no. 4 (1918): 495-
527* Bertrand Russell, “The Philosophy of Logical
Atomism, III-IV,” The Monist 29, no. 1 (1919): 32-
63* Bertrand Russell, “The Philosophy of Logical
Atomism, V-VI,” The Monist 29, no. 2 (1919): 190-
222* Bertrand Russell, “The Philosophy of Logical
Atomism, VII-VIII,” The Monist 29, no. 3 (1919):
345-380*
“Whereof one cannot speak”
Tu 2-3 Th 2-5 Tu 2-10 Th 2-12 Tu 2-17
1-3.05 Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-
Philosophicus, propositions 3.1-4.0641 Ludwig
Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus,
propositions 4.1-5.02 Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, propositions 5.1-
6.031 Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-
Philosophicus, propositions 6.1-7
Logical Positivism/Logical Empiricism
Th 2-19 Tu 2-24 Th 2-26
Tu 3-3 Th 3-5 Tu 3-10 Th 3-12 Tu 3-17
Rudolf Carnap, “The Elimination of Metaphysics
Through the Logical Analysis of Language” [1932],
in Logical Positivism, ed. A. J. Ayer (New York:
Free Press, 1959): 60-81*
Rudolf Carnap, “On the Character of Philosophic
Problems,” Philosophyof Science 1, no. 1 (1934):
5-19*
Rudolf Carnap, Philosophyand Logical Syntax
(London: Kegan Paul, 1935), chapter II, sections 1
and 6-8* Moritz Schlick, “The Foundation of
Knowledge” [1934], in Logical Positivism, ed. A. J.
Ayer (New York: Free Press, 1959): 209-227*
A. J. Ayer, Language, Truth and Logic, preface and
chapters I and IV A. J. Ayer, Language, Truth and
Logic, chapters II-III and VI
NO CLASS
NO CLASS

5. A. J. Ayer, Language, Truth and Logic,
introduction (pp. 5-16)
Carl G. Hempel, “The Empiricist Criterion of
Meaning” [1950], in Logical Positivism, ed. A. J.
Ayer (New York: Free Press, 1959): 108-129*
Ordinary Language Analysis
Th 3-19 Gilbert Ryle, “Philosophical Arguments”
[1946], in Logical Positivism, ed. A. J. Ayer (New
York: Free Press, 1959): 327-344*
Tu 3-24 Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind (New
York: Hutchinson, 1949), introduction and
chapters I, II (sections 1-3 and 7- 8), and V
(sections 1-2)*
“To shew the fly the way out of the fly-bottle”
Th 3-26 Tu 3-31 Th 4-2 Tu 4-7 Th 4-9
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations,
§§ 1-64 Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical
Investigations, §§ 65-137 Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Philosophical Investigations, §§ 138-184 Ludwig
Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, §§ 185-
242 Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical
Investigations, §§ 243-316
Empiricism Without the Dogmas
Tu 4-14 Th 4-16 Tu 4-21 Th 4-23 Tu 4-28

6. W. V. Quine, “On What There Is” [1948], in Froma

7. Logical Point of View, 2 ed. (New York: Harper & Row, 1961): 1-19*
Rudolf Carnap, “Empiricism, Semantics, and

8. Ontology” [1950], in Meaning and Necessity, 2 ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956): 205-
221*

9. W. V. Quine, “Two Dogmas of Empiricism” [1951],

10. in Froma Logical Point of View, 2 ed. (New York: Harper & Row, 1961): 20-46*
Wilfrid Sellars, “Empiricism and the Philosophy of
Mind,” MinnesotaStudies in Philosophyof Science,
vol. I (1956): 253-329 (sections I, III-IV, and VII-
VIII)*
Wilfrid Sellars, “Empiricism and the Philosophy of
Mind,” MinnesotaStudies in Philosophyof Science,
vol. I (1956): 253-329 (sections X-XVI)*
The “End” of Analytic Philosophy
Th 4-30