Course Description  We will examine a variety of issues
concerning Frege's Problem and anaphora in language and thought.
Discussion will include, but is intended not to presuppose
familiarity with:   1. dynamic treatments of donkey anaphora 
2. work by "direct reference" theorists especially in the late
1980s and 1990s     3. Kit Fine's "Semantic Relationalism"   4.
"mental file folder" models of cognitive equivalence   5.
techniques from functional programming of the sort surveyed at
lambda.jimpryor.net  Meetings and Preparation  The seminar meets
on Mondays at 5 PM in the NYU Philosophy Department (5
Washington Place), on the 3rd floor. The first meeting is on
Sept 10. There will be no meeting on Sept 17, we will make this
up either on Oct 15 (when the University otherwise has a
holiday), or on December 17 (after classes have stopped). We'll
generally meet for 2--2.5 hours, but when there is sufficient
interest and energy we can carry on discussion later at a cafe
or bar.  The seminar itself will aim to