- Docente: Paolo Leonardi
- Credits: 6
- SSD: M-FIL/05
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
Semiotics (cod. 8886)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Italian Studies, European Literary Cultures, Linguistics (cod. 0973)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Philosophical Sciences (cod. 8773)
Course contents
Words and traces
Readings/Bibliography
1 Evolution of language
Alcuni testi dall’Oxford handbook of language evolution a cura di M. Tallerman e K.R. Gibson.
Francesco Ferretti La facoltà del linguaggio (Roma Carocci 2015).
2 Conversational thinking
Aristotele Sull’interpretazione (ne esistono molte edizioni, tutte abbastanza insoddisfacenti).*
Franco Lo Piparo Aristotele e il linguaggio / Cosa fa di una lingua una lingua (Roma-Bari Laterza 2003).
Manfredo Massironi “La via più breve nel pensiero visivo” (Sistemi intelligenti 7 1995: 223-261).
Paolo Legrenzi, Costanza Papagno e Carlo Umiltà Psicologia generale(Bologna il Mulino 2012: capp 2, 3 e 5.
3 A name's sense
Gottlob Frege “Su senso e significato”.*
John Searle “Nomi propri” (in Atti linguistici Torino Bollati Boringhieri 1976: 212-25) .*
Ludwig Wittgenstein Tractatus logico-philosophicus (Torino Einaudi 1961): 3.142, 4.144, 3.3.
Ludwig Wittgenstein Ricerche filosofiche (Torino Einaudi 1967: I,: §§1-69) .
4 A name's reference
Saul Kripke Nome e necessità I e II lezione (Milano Bollati Boringhieri 1999).
Keith Donnellan “Riferimento e descrizioni definite” (in La struttura logica del linguaggio a cura di Andrea Bonomi Milano Bompiani 1973: 225-248).
5 A detour on fictional names
Keith Donnellan “Speaking of nothing” (The Philosophical Review 831974: 3-31)
Kendall Walton Mimesi come far finta / Sui fondamenti delle arti rappresentazionali (Mimesis 2011).*
Alcuni saggi saranno resi disponibili in rete.
Teaching methods
Lectures and some students class presentations.
Assessment methods
A written paper. See general instruction at the following
http://web.dfc.unibo.it/paolo.leonardi/es-scritti.html
The paper has strictly to be on topics discussed in class and has to avail itself of references suggested.
The topic of the paper has to be agreed upon by email with me 2 weeks in advance of the examination day and has to be sent in within midnight of the day before examination day.
Teaching tools
Texts and materials indicated in class can be retrieved at the following url:
http://web.dfc.unibo.it/paolo.leonardi/index.html
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See the website of Paolo Leonardi