Bachelor
2022/2023
Philosophy of Language
Type:
Compulsory course (Philosophy)
Area of studies:
Philosophy
Delivered by:
School of Philosophy and Cultural Studies
Where:
Faculty of Humanities
When:
2 year, 2 module
Mode of studies:
distance learning
Online hours:
30
Open to:
students of one campus
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Contact hours:
32
Course 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).