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| 0618-4064-01 | Radical Consequences of the Linguistic Turn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 4.0
Course description
The aim of this seminar is to examine the problems arising from the Linguistic Turn, i.e., the methodological principle according to which a philosophical account of thought should be attained through a philosophical account of language. The essential difference between these two spheres – thought and language – had already been acknowledged by Frege. Subsequent developments of the conception of language as practice rather than a privileged representation of thought made the problems resulting from this difference manifest.
We start by discussing several of Frege’s writings, and then examine aspects of this topic through writings of Wittgenstein, Austin, Dummett, Derrida, Lyotard, Butler and others. We will find out that the idea embedded in the Turn, when interpreted thoroughly and radically, bears far-reaching philosophical consequences for philosophy, the humanities, the social-sciences and for the academia in general.
We start by discussing several of Frege’s writings, and then examine aspects of this topic through writings of Wittgenstein, Austin, Dummett, Derrida, Lyotard, Butler and others. We will find out that the idea embedded in the Turn, when interpreted thoroughly and radically, bears far-reaching philosophical consequences for philosophy, the humanities, the social-sciences and for the academia in general.