Enrollment year
2017/2018
Academic discipline
M-FIL/05 (PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY OF LANGUAGE)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Course
THEORETICAL AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS; LINGUISTICS AND MODERN LANGUAGES
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
1st semester (24/09/2018 - 09/01/2019)
Lesson hours
36 lesson hours
Prerequisites
None applies
Learning outcomes
Present the most influential philosophical theories on knowledge, and critically discuss the most influential constructivist and relativist argument to the effect that knowledge is socially constructed
Course contents
This course aims to make the students familiar with the main questions in the philosophy of language and epistemology addressed within the contemporary analytic tradition. In particular, we shall address the question pertaining to the nature of linguistic meaning (Frege’s distinction between sense and reference, with special emphasis on the reference of proper names), the nature of truth (the redundancy theory, twentieth century varieties of the correspondence theory of truth, the semantic realism/antirealism dispute), the nature of knowledge (the notion of epistemic justification, evidence, scepticism)
Teaching methods
Lectures
Reccomended or required readings
Dispense del docente su G. Frege, B. Russell e S. Kripke
P. Casalegno, Filosofia del linguaggio, Carocci (capitoli 1, 2 e 10)
G. Volpe, La verità, Carocci (primi tre capitoli)
T. Piazza, Che cos’è la conoscenza, Carocci (parti).
G. Frege, Senso e denotazione, in Mangione (a cura di), La struttura logica del linguaggio.
B. Russell, Sulla denotazione, in Mangione (a cura di), La struttura logica del linguaggio.
Assessment methods
Oral examination
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