MABM240 Философия на езика: англо-американски подходи
Анотация:
Profile and Aims. The course is a kind of high level introduction in the Anglo-American linguistic philosophy and especially in the post-WWII ordinary language philosophy. The course starts with few lectures and seminars centred around the three main figures – the founding fathers - of the post-analytic turn: Ludwig Wittgenstein in Cambridge, John L. Austin in Oxford and Willard Van Orman Quine in Harvard. The course continues with two excurses showing some different readings of this legacy: it brings into focus the quarrew between Searle and Derrida about the speech act theory and the radicalization of neo-pragmatism in the line of Davidson and Rorty. Finally, the course using ordinary language resources stresses onto three general problems: What does “the truth” mean? How do metaphors work? How are the slips of the tongue possible?
Exams. This is a lecture course with ongoing discussions, yet it does not rule out occasional presentations by students, if the students would like to make them. The final exam consists in writing an essay of 1,500-2,000 words on a subject discussed during the course or another topic approved by the instructor.
Преподавател(и):
проф. Димитър Вацов д-р
Описание на курса:
Компетенции:
Students who complete this course:
1) will know:
• the origins of the contemporary ordinary language philosophy.
• Its further developments.
• Its main concepts and problems.
2) will be able to:
• make ordinary language analysis
Предварителни изисквания:
None
Форми на провеждане:
Редовен
Учебни форми:
Лекция
Език, на който се води курса:
Английски
Теми, които се разглеждат в курса:
Литература по темите:
(The list that follows is only descriptive and indicative. It does not present literature that will be required for the course.)
Austin, J. L., “Truth”, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, The Virtual Issue No. 1, 2013 [originally published in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume XXIV (1950)].
Austin, J. L., How to Do Things with Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1962.
Cavell, Stanley, The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy (second edition), New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Cavell, Stanley, Must We Mean What We Say? (eighth edition), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Davidson, Donald, Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation (Second Edition). CLARENDON PRESS · OXFORD 2001.
Средства за оценяване:
Mid-term
• Discussion
• Presentation
Final exams
• Term paper