This course aims to introduce some major topics and issues in contemporary philosophy of language. It is an introductory course presupposes no previous acquaintance with the field. It is not, however, an elementary course, since some of the topics are intricate and the issues reach far and deep into other areas of philosophy, such as logic, the philosophy of mind, epistemology, and metaphysics.
Most of the topics covered in the course center around the notion of meaning. What are the ingredients of meaning? How does the meaning of an expression contribute to the meaning of a sentence containing it? What is involved in understanding the meaning of what is said? What form should be taken by a theory of meaning for a specific language?
This is a critical examination of the text of Wittgenstein, Russell, Frege, and Putnam.- Faculty: Al Franjon Villaroya