Philosophy of Language
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2024-2025
01013379
Área Científica do Menor
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Elective
1st Cycle Studies
Recommended Prerequisites
Not applicable.
Teaching Methods
Teacher’s Lectures regarding the different topics.
Student’s presentations on specific aspects of the programme, according to a previous schedule.
Learning Outcomes
After the conclusion of the semester the students will be able to
1. Identify the main themes and problems of the contemporary Philosophy of Language;
2. Classify the themes and problems under specific authors and / or philosophical theories;
3. Interpret specific texts where it is possible to perceive the themes and problems of the contemporary Philosophy of Language;
4. Reflect in a personal way about the themes and problems studied during the semester.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
I – Discussion about the topics of “meaning” and “reference”
1. G. Frege
2. B. Russell
3. L. Wittgenstein
4. Some consequences of these conceptions in the contemporary Philosophical Semantics
II – Pragmatic interpretations of semantic problems: the case with L. Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations.
III – Semiotic Models: from C. S. Peirce to T. Sebeok.
IV – Hermeneutics and Philosophy of Language.
Assessment Methods
Assessment
Exam: 100.0%
Bibliography
G. Frege, "On Sense and Reference" in A. W. Moore (ed.), Meaning and Reference, Oxford, 1993, pp. 23-42
L. Wittgenstein, Notebooks 1914-1916, Oxford, 1961.
Idem, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, São Paulo, 1968.
Idem, Philosophical Investigations, G.E.M. Anscombe (trad.), Oxford, 1958.
C. S. Peirce, On a new List of Categories in C. S. Peirce, Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce edited by Ch. Hartshorne, P. Weiss and A. W. Burks, I-VIII, Cambridge, 1931-1958.
Idem, How to make our Ideas Clear in C. S. Peirce, Collected Papers
Idem, Letters to Lady Welby in C. S. Peirce, Collected Papers.
Thomas A. Sebeok, Signs. An Introduction to Semiotics, Toronto, Buffalo and London, 2001.
M. Heidegger, Being and Time, Basil Blackwell, 1962, 2005.