PH0142 Logical Analysis of Natural Language I

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2007
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Pavel Materna, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jan Zouhar, CSc.
Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Hana Holmanová
Timetable
Thu 15:00–16:35 A11 stara
Prerequisites
The student passed the examination Logika (1st year)
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
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Course objectives
Semantics of natural language. Frege: denotation and sense, Some contemporary approaches. Transparent intensional logic (TIL), confronted with contemporary schools. Criticism of 'Frege's Thesis'. Intensions, extensions. Loogical apparatus of TIL. A simple hierarchy of types. Epistemis base. The notion of construction. A ramified hierarchy of types, comparison with Russell's hierarchy. Solving some well-known problems ('puzzles'). De dicto, de re. Modalities.
Syllabus
  • Semantics and syntax, applied to natural language. The beginning of the modern semantics (of natural language): Frege. Frege's problem, his proposal of of solving it. Denotation and sense. Frege's solution as interpreted by post-fregean philosophers. What is sense? The notion of possible world. Possible-world semantics. Transparent intensional logic (TIL). Intensions, extensions. Criticism of 'Frege's Thesis'. Apparatus of TIL. Epistemic base. A simple hierarchy of types over the epistemic base. A key notion: construction. A ramified hierarchy of types, its greater expressivity as compared with Russell's hierarchy. Solving some problems. Criticism of contextualism. De re and de dicto supposition. Empirical expressions denote intensions. Modal systems and TIL.
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Přednáška, kolokvium
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
Teacher's information
phil.muni.cz
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 1999, Autumn 2000, Autumn 2001, Autumn 2002, Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014.
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