Overview
Description
Examination of topics such as meaning, reference, truth, analyticity, translatability and speech acts. Reading from such figures as Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Austin, Quine, Searle.
Units
Lecture3
Learning Outcomes
- state a thesis about a central problem in the philosophy of language, and provide evidence and argument (including replies to counter-arguments) in its defense.
- explain and interpret the ideas associated with theories in the contemporary literature in the philosophy of language.
- distinguish better and worse reasoning, and recognize conceptual relationships and patterns of inference (in contemporary theories in the philosophy of language).
- show what is at stake in abstract debates in the philosophy of language, and indicate how positions in these debates have implications for the understanding of language.