28384 - Philosophy of Language (LM)

Academic Year 2011/2012

  • Docente: Paolo Leonardi
  • Credits: 12
  • SSD: M-FIL/05
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Semiotics (cod. 0968)

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

Language and World in Wittgenstien's Tractatus logico-philosophicus

1.   L'immagine della lingua del Tractatus.
2.   L'ontologia del Tractatus.
3.   L'ontologia del Tractatus e quella dell'Ethica more geometrico demonstrata di Baruch Spinoza.

Readings/Bibliography

L. WIttgenstein Tractatus logico-philosophicus (London Dover 1998).
Anthony Kenny Wittgenstein (Oxford Blackwelli 2005).
Weekly download the lectures notes at the URL:
         http://www-utenti.dsc.unibo.it/~paolo.leonardi/

Teaching methods

Lectures and discussions on selected texts.

Assessment methods

Paper, to be in sent by email 4 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