FI:V010 Philosophy of Language and Its

V010 Philosophy of Language and Its Problems I

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 2000

Extent and Intensity

2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: z (credit). Other types of completion: k (colloquium).

Teacher(s)

prof. PhDr. Ing. Miloslav Dokulil, DrSc. (lecturer)

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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 once in two years.
The course is taught every week.

The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 1998, Autumn 2001.