LIN 219 - Philosophy Of Language

Institution:

University of Rochester

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With the rise of modern logic in the early 20th Century, philosophers paid increasingly greater attention to the logical structure of language used in philosophical discourse. As a result, many traditional philosophical problems came to be seen as primarily linguistic in nature. This “linguistic turn” also focused attention on philosophical problems concerning language itself: problems concerning the nature of meaning, truth, reference, and communication. This course is an introductory survey of the results of these inquiries from their origins to the present day. The goal of the course is to examine a number of central philosophical problems about language, while exploring the relation between these problems and problems in metaphysics and epistemology.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.rochester.edu

Phone Number:

(888) 822-2256

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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