FF:PHA0103 The Foundation`s of Frege`s Lo - Course Information
PHA0103 The Foundation`s of Frege`s Logic
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2008
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. PhDr. BcA. Jiří Raclavský, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Jan Zouhar, CSc.
Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Hana Holmanová - Timetable
- Thu 15:00–16:35 B12
- Prerequisites
- being an advanced university student (not a beginner!), English
- 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
- Philosophy (programme FF, B-PH)
- Course objectives
- The course is named by the only book which Pavel Tichý ever published. The aim of this book was not only to expose the most comprehensive version of his logic, but to demonstrate its power to explicate areas where Gottlob Frege and others (e.g. Russell, Church) did not succeed. The course is based on careful reading and interpretation of the selected chapters. Thus the objective is to understand the various theories given by Tichý in the book, which enables students to solve many puzzles discussed frequently within philosophy and logic.
- Syllabus
- - function as a mere correspondence of arguments and values vs. function as a procedure (Tichý: construction); Frege's oscillation between the two notions - Tichý's philosophical defence of constructions - three Vicious Circle Principles - Tichý's objectual notion of variables - Tichý's definition of constructions - Tichý's ramified theory of types (as a combination of Church's simple TT and Russell's ramified TT) - Tichý's objectual conception of logic and his objectual explication of entailment and substituition - Frege's Sinn, Church's concept, Russell's propositional function reinterpreted - languages as codes and Tichý's solution of Liar paradox - Tichý's approach to modal parameter (possible worlds) and his defense of temporal parameter; resulting intensionality - Tichý's Transparent intensional logic as tool for analysis of natural language; - aboutness - Tichý's analyses of notional and propositional attitudes - Tichý's defence of 'two-dimensional' conception of inference
- Literature
- Assessment methods
- - short written examination - lectures with readings and interpretations, own readings
- Language of instruction
- English
- Follow-Up Courses
- Further Comments
- The course is taught only once.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2008, recent)
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