Unit PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE, THEORY OF MIND AND PRAGMATIC COMMUNICATION
- Course
- Philosophy and ethics of relationships
- Study-unit Code
- GP005048
- Curriculum
- Filosofia e storia
- Teacher
- Simona Tiberi
- Teachers
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- Simona Tiberi
- Hours
- 54 ore - Simona Tiberi
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2019
- Offered
- 2020/21
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- M-FIL/05
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- On understanding mind in language: a "plural" approach among epistemology, philosophy of language, theories of mind
- Reference texts
- PART A) Institutional part: FOR ALL STUDENTS: free choice of ONE text between the following texts as introductory studies to the philosophy of language : PENCO Carlo,Introduzione alla filosofia del linguaggio,Laterza Roma-Bari, 2004 ff. or MARCONI D., Filosofia del linguaggio, UTET Torino 2008 e sgg.; Part B) Monographic focus: For students attending to earn 6 credits, ONE free choice among: AAVV, La comprensione linguistica a c. di A. Paternoster e V.Pisanty, Mimesis Milano-Udine 2019 (read all); ; Significato a c. di S. Caputo, C. Barbero, Carocci, Roma 2018 (free choice of two chapters among 1,2,3,4); Filosofia della mente a c. di M. Di Francesco, M. Marraffa, A. Tomasetta , Carocci, Roma 2017, (free choice of two chapters among 1,2,3,4) ; For students attending to earn 9 credits, besides the selected text of Part A, the study of TWO texts of PART B among Paternoster/Pisanty, Caputo/Barbero, Di Francesco/Marraffa/Tomasetta is required.
- Educational objectives
- The course aims to introduce the key notions and methods of
Philosophyof Language, with specific regard to its syntactical, semantical
and pragmaticalarticulations. Students are expected to acquire basic
notions of theresearch field, ability to enucleate problems and itineraries
for theirpossible solutions, and a critical awareness as differentaspects
relative to language and theories of mind related to its functions and uses are concerned, as it can be seen fromboth its
historical and theorical developments. - Prerequisites
- None
- Teaching methods
- Face to face lessons for both Part A and B of the Course
- Other information
- Part of lessons shall be dedicated to reading and analysing pages from the classical texts of Philosophy of Language, using material given by the teacher and aiming to discuss together selected itemsin seminar form.
- Learning verification modality
- Oral exam. For Info concerning support services to students with disabilities please visit http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa
- Extended program
- A. An Introduction to philosophy of language. 1) Philosophical theories ofmeaning and reference (Frege, Russell, 1st Wittgenstein, Carnap) 2)Linguistic action (2 nd Wittgenstein, Austin, Grice, Searle) 3) Languageand communication (indeterminacy of translation and radicalinterpretation, holism in Quine and Davidson) 4) The cognitive turn in analytical philosophy of language (Putnam, Fodor, functionalism and cognitive sciences) 5) Meaning and inferential role (Dummett, Brandom);
B.The second part B of the course shall be dedicated to analyse issues in question within contemporary debate on the relationship among language/mind/understanding, taking into account the cognitive perspective of specific mind-models ruling the use of human language in meaning and understanding (CAPUTO/BARBERO 2018), but also the main frame of philosophy of mind of analytical heritage (DI FRANCESCO/MARRAFFA/TOMASETTA 2017) and the communicative-pragmatic approach(PATERNOSTER/PISANTY 2019) ..