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| 0618-1015-01 | Introduction to the Philosophy of Language I | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 2.0
Course description
Attempts to understand the nature of language characterize philosophical thought after philosophy's crises during the 19th century. They therefore involve the question of the possibilities open to philosophy. In the introductory course to the philosophy of language we'll discuss such fundamental questions as 'what is meaning?' and 'what is the relation between language, thought and world', putting a special emphasis on the linkage between them and the question of the essence of philosophy itself. We'll focus on the period of the first half of the 20th century, in the analytic tradition. Philosphers read: Frege, Russell, Carnap, Wittgenstein.