PHIL 202

Philosophy of Language


Please note: this is archived course information from 2016 for PHIL 202.

Description

The components of language and its use (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 (Grice on meaning, sense and reference, truth-conditional theories of meaning); the connection between language, thought and reality.

Availability 2016

Semester 2

Lecturer(s)

Coordinator(s) Professor Fred Kroon

Points

PHIL 202: 15 points

Prerequisites

30 points in Philosophy or Linguistics

Restrictions

PHIL 322