- Docente: Paolo Leonardi
- Credits: 10
- SSD: M-FIL/05
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in DAMS - Drama, Art and Music Studies (cod. 0343)
Learning outcomes
Knowledge of some of some contemporary views on philosophy and on philosophy of language.
Course contents
In meaning there are different perspectives: that of the meaning subject, that of the object meant, that of the subject whom it is meant to. I'll go over the discussion on the topic in the last 120 years, but will start from some ancient position such as that of Plato in the Cratylus.
I'll refer mainly to Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, John L. Austin, Paul Grice, Willard V.O. Quine, Donald Davidson, Michael Dummett, Saul Kripke, Hilary Putnam, Keith Donnellan, John Searle, Robert Brandom, Tyler Burge.Readings/Bibliography
Filosofia del linguaggio, Paolo Casalegno et al., eds.
(Milano Cortina 2003).
Hilary Putnam "Il significato di 'significato'" (in Mente,
linguaggio e realtà Torino Adelphi 1987, pp. 239-97).
Other references will be given in class.
All the texts are available also in English.
Teaching methods
Lecture with discussion.
Assessment methods
Written exam. The topic of the exam will be indicated at the end of
the class at the web page
http://www-utenti.dsc.unibo.it/%7Eleonardi/, and has to be sent in
by mail one week in advance of discussion.
Teaching tools
On line materials at http://www-utenti.dsc.unibo.it/%7Eleonardi/programmi/annoincorso.html
Links to further information
http://www-utenti.dsc.unibo.it/%7Eleonardi/programmi/annoincorso.html
Office hours
See the website of Paolo Leonardi