- Docente: Paolo Leonardi
- Credits: 9
- SSD: M-FIL/05
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in LANGUAGE, SOCIETY AND COMMUNICATION (cod. 0982)
Learning outcomes
The student will yield a minimum competence in contemporary
philosophy of language, anchored to a longer investigation of one
of its central notions, reference
Course contents
Meaning and Context
A short introduction to philosophy of language: G. Frege
“Sense and Meaning”, L. Wittgenstein from the Philosophical
Investigations on meaning and use, D. Davidson “Truth and
Meaning”, S. Kripke from the 2nd of Naming and
Necessity.
Successively, a discussion on the following topics: kanguage as
philosophical problem, without existence, nothing; what first,
words or things? Meaning's ancestor: drawing attention to; image
and word; perception and attention; words' special distinctiveness
.
Readings/Bibliography
La struttura logica del linguaggio a cura di A. Bonomi
(Milano Bompiani 2001).
Other references will be given in class.
Notes on line.
All texts are available also in English.
Teaching methods
Lectures and discussions on selected texts.
Assessment methods
Paper, to be in sent by email three days in advance of
discussion. The exact schedule of the discussion will be on
line 24 hours in advance of the session.
Teaching tools
See web page http://www-utenti.dsc.unibo.it/%7Epaolo.leonardi/
Links to further information
http://www-utenti.dsc.unibo.it/%7Epaolo.leonardi/
Office hours
See the website of Paolo Leonardi