FF:PH0142 Natural Language, Log. I - Course Information
PH0142 Logical Analysis of Natural Language I
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2014
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 3 credit(s) (plus 1 credit for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. PhDr. Pavel Materna, CSc. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Josef Krob, CSc.
Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Hana Holmanová
Supplier department: Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Thu 15:50–17:25 G23
- Prerequisites
- PH1201 Logic II || PHK1201 Logic II
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.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 11 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- 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
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- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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