FF:PH0184 Singular Temrs - Course Information
PH0184 Singular Temrs
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2010
- 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
- Mon 15:00–16:35 A11 stara
- Prerequisites
- PH_PoZ Qualifying Exam. in Phil. || PHK_PoZ Qualifying Exam. in Phil. || PROGRAM ( N - PH ) || PROGRAM ( N - HS ) || PROGRAM ( N - SS )
Recommended for advanced students - 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-HS)
- Philosophy (programme FF, B-PH) (3)
- Philosophy (programme FF, M-HS)
- Philosophy (programme FF, M-PH)
- Philosophy (programme FF, N-HS)
- Philosophy (programme FF, N-PH) (2)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Social Studies Basics (programme FF, N-SS) (2)
- Course objectives
- At the end of the course students should be able to: understand key topics in the philosophy of singular terms; to explain basic features of Frege's, Russell's and Kripke's philosophies of singular terms; apply the knowledge in related areas of ontology and epistemology such as problems of existence, identity etc.; orientate oneself in the basic issues of contemporary semantics of (natural) language;
- Syllabus
- basic issues of the philosophy of singular terms
- Frege's doctrine of sense and denotation
- Russell's theory of descriptions
- Strawsonian and other reactions to Russellian views
- controversy on modal logic
- Kripke's causal theory of names and its criticism
- contemporary debate on problematic topics
- Freganism vs. Russellianism and some ways out
- Literature
- required literature
- The frege reader. Edited by Gottlob Frege. 1st pub. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 1997, xv, 409. ISBN 9780631194453. info
- KRIPKE, Saul A. Naming and necessity. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1980, 172 s. ISBN 0-631-12801-8. info
- RUSSELL, Bertrand. Logika, jazyk a věda. Edited by Karel Berka - Ladislav Tondl. 1. vyd. Praha: Svoboda, 1967, 279 s. URL info
- recommended literature
- RACLAVSKÝ, Jiří. Jména a deskripce: logicko-sémantická zkoumání (Names and Descriptions: Logico-Semantical Investigations). 1st ed. Olomouc: Nakladatelství Olomouc, 2009, 396 pp. mimo edice. ISBN 978-80-7182-277-6. info
- Podoby referencie. Edited by Marián Zouhar. Bratislava: Iris, 2004, 255 s. ISBN 8089018688. info
- Teaching methods
- lectures; readings of key writings; written homeworks (answers to questions on studied texts);
- Assessment methods
- brief written exam supplanted by question (orally answered);
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2010, recent)
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