PHIL 202
Philosophy of Language
Please note: this is archived course information from 2012 for PHIL 202.
Description
This course deals with the components of language and its use (eg, expressions, utterances, speech acts); theories of language and its nature (including structuralism, Chomskyan psychologism and platonism); linguistic meaning and its connection with other sorts of meaning (eg, Grice on meaning, sense and reference, truth-conditional theories of meaning, meaning and metaphor); the connection between language, thought and reality.
Availability 2012
Semester 1
Lecturer(s)
Coordinator(s) Professor Fred Kroon
Reading/Texts
Philosophy of Language (fifth edition), ed. A. P. Martinich. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Points
PHIL 202: 15 points
Prerequisites
30 points in Philosophy or Linguistics
Restrictions
PHIL 322