Кто читает:: Школа философии и культурологии

Статус:: Курс обязательный

Когда читается:: 2-й курс, 3 модуль

Преподаватели

Бронцо Сильвер

Долгоруков Виталий Владимирович

Full Syllabus

Abstract

This is an introduction to the philosophy of language, with a focus on contemporary philosophy of language in the analytic philosophical tradition. In the first half of the course, students will read some classics of the analytic tradition (Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Austin) and be introduced to a number of notions, distinctions, and problems that form the background and toolbox of contemporary philosophy of language. In the second half of the course, we will discuss some issues in contemporary philosophy of linguistics (the principle of compositionality, basics of formal semantics, event semantics).

Learning Objectives

Introduce students to the basic problems, themes, and notions of philosophy of language in the analytic tradition.

Expected Learning Outcomes

Master Austin tripartite of speech acts into locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts; master the notion of uptake and the distinction between perlocutionary object and perlocutionary effect; be able to discuss how Austin's analysis to Frege's distinction between force and content.
Master Austin's distinction between constative and performative utterances
Master Frege's distinction between concept, objects, and functions. Capacity to analyze sentences in accordance with Frege's framework.
Master Frege's distinction between sense and reference, and the problems it was supposed to solve
Master Russell's analysis of definite description and its philosophical motivations.
Master Wittgenstein's views about the nature of philosophical problems and their origins in the misleading character of language. Ability to connect these views to passages in the "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" and "the Philosophical Investigations."
Master Davidson's views on semantics and ontology of events.
Master Frege's views about the meaning and reference.
Master the distinction between semantics and pragmatics

Course Contents

Frege on sense and reference
Russell on definite descriptions
Wittgenstein on philosophy as a critique of language
Austin's theory of speech acts
Philosophy of Language and Philosophy of Linguistics
Basic Ideas of Formal Semantics
Events in Semantics

Assessment Elements

Essay
Участие Часть I
Participation Part II

Interim Assessment

2021/2022 3rd module
0.2 * Участие Часть I + 0.2 * Participation Part II + 0.6 * Essay

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

Austin, J. (1962). How to do things with words. Germany, Europe: Clarendon Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.B157973A
Frege, G. (1892). Über Sinn und Bedeutung (vollständige digitalisierte Ausgabe). Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.B1940401
RUSSELL, B. (1905). Ii.——On Denoting. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.2F9DEE3F
Wittgenstein, L. (2010). Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus : German and English. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=782962
Wittgenstein, L., Pears, D. F., & McGuinness, B. (2001). Tractatus Logico-philosophicus. London: Taylor & Francis [CAM]. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=70629

Recommended Additional Bibliography

McGinn, C. (2015). Philosophy of Language : The Classics Explained. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=956432

Бакалаврская программа «Философия»

Philosophy of Language