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