V010 Philosophy of Language and Its Problems I

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 1998
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Ing. Miloslav Dokulil, DrSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Ing. Miloslav Dokulil, DrSc.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Syllabus
  • Is language a problematic instrument? Is its postmodern interpretation well grounded?
  • Some preliminaries concerning a theory of the world, language, and the human mind.
  • What language is.
  • Some preliminaries on the philosophy of language.
  • Some implications caused by the philosophy of language in various spheres.
  • A historical consideration.
  • A sentence, a proposition, and the structure of the scepticism problem.
  • Sense and reference.
  • Description and its logical form.
  • Things and qualities, or truth and reality.
  • A priori and a posteriori.
  • An excursion into the sphere of speech acts.
  • Intervenes our language in the way man thinks?
  • The relationship between the mind and its body substrate as a problem.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2000, Autumn 2001.
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