PH0142 Logical Analysis of Natural Language I

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2010
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
Exam from Logic (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.
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Course objectives
At the end of the course, students should be able to exactly recognize what the given expression talks about, to justify the semantic principles of Transparent intensional logic and defend them against possible objections, to find the construction that is the meaning of the given expression (in not too complicated cases), to define meaning, denotation, reference, to distinguish between de re and de dicto supposition
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.
  • De re and de dicto supposition.
Literature
  • MATERNA, Pavel. Svět pojmů a logika. 2., opr. vyd. Praha: Filosofia, 2000, 135 s. ISBN 80-7007-085-4. info
Teaching methods
Lecture. During the lecture a discussion is initialized. Presentation of specialists is possible. Electronic script is accessible. During the course some further reading is recommended.
Assessment methods
Colloquium, when agreed also exam.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Teacher's information
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