- Docente: Paolo Leonardi
- Credits: 6
- SSD: M-FIL/05
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Drama, Art and Music Studies (cod. 0956)
Course contents
Five philosophies of language:
a. Plato The sophist
b. Aristotle On Interpretation
c. John Locke An Essay concerning Human
Understanding
d. Gottlob Frege "The Thought"
e. Willard van Orman Quine Word and
Object.
(DAMS students) For the half class on Analysis of Visual
Communication go to the class with that name.
Readings/Bibliography
Aristotle On Interpretation
Locke An Essay concerning Human Understanding
Other texts will be indicated in class and notes on line.
Teaching methods
Lectures, as already said, and besides a class discussion on some
text the
student will be required to read before hand.
Assessment methods
Written exam. 5 open questions. On line ten days in advance, to be sent back by email within 12am of the seventh day. Then, a short interview discussing the exam sent in. The schedule of the colloquia is posted on line 2 days in advance.
Teaching tools
Lectures. Notes available on line.
Lecture notes, texts for the written exam, interview schedule,
news, etc at the following URL:
http://www-utenti.dsc.unibo.it/~paolo.leonardi/
Office hours
See the website of Paolo Leonardi