Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Institute of Philosophy
- Code
- BMI-FILD-311
- Title
- Philosophy of language
- Usual semester
- Autumn
- ECTS
- 4
- Language
- Course content
- For the latest version of the syllabus, please visit the Philosophy course catalogue: http://lps.elte.hu/courselist/ The course addresses certain issues in the philososophy of language and offers an introduction into the main problems and historical positions of the field. Required readings: 1. Plato: Cratylos 383a-390e 2. John Locke: An Essay concerning Human understanding. Book 3. ch. I-III.7. 3. Johann Gottfried Herder: Treatise on the Origin of Language, in: Philosophical Writings, Cambridge 2004, 77-89. 4. Wilhelm von Humboldt: On language: On the Diversity of Human Language Construction and its Influence on the Mental Development of the Human Species, Cambridge 1999. (excerpts to be announced) 5. Friedrich Schleiermacher: Hermeneutics and Criticism, in: Hermeneutics and Criticism and Other Writings. Cambridge 1998, pp. 5-29. 6. Gottlob Frege: On Sense and Nominatum, in: A. P. Martinich (ed.): Philosophy of Language. Oxford 1996 (several editions) 7. Bertrand Russel: On Denoting, in: A. P. Martinich (ed.): Philosophy of Language. Oxford 1996. 8. Ferdinand de Saussure: Course in General Linguistics. New York 2011, Part I, ch. 1-2, pp. 65-78. 9. Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations, §§ 1-43. 10. John Austin: How to Do Things with Words, lecture 1-2 (several editions) 11. Willard van Orman Quine: Two Dogmas of Empiricism, in: A. P. Martinich (ed.): Philosophy of Language. Oxford 1996 (several editions) 12. Donald Davidson: Truth and Meaning, in: A. P. Martinich (ed.): Philosophy of Language. Oxford 1996.