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Apr 29, 2024
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PHIL 625 - Philosophy of Language (3 units)
Examination of topics such as meaning, reference, truth, analyticity, translatability and speech acts. Reading from such figures as Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Austin, Quine, Searle.
Units of Lecture: 3
Student Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course:
1. Students will be able to state a thesis about a central problem in the philosophy of language, and provide evidence and argument (including replies to counter-arguments) in its defense.
2. Students will be able to explain and interpret the ideas associated with theories in the contemporary literature in the philosophy of language.
3. Students will be able to distinguish better and worse reasoning, and recognize conceptual relationships and patterns of inference (in contemporary theories in the philosophy of language).
4. Students will be able to show what is at stake in abstract debates in the philosophy of language, and indicate how positions in these debates have implications for the understanding of language.
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