Unit PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE, THEORY OF MIND AND PRAGMATIC COMMUNICATION

Course
Philosophy and ethics of relationships
Study-unit Code
GP005048
Curriculum
World religions and philosophy
Teacher
Simona Tiberi
Teachers
  • Simona Tiberi
Hours
  • 54 ore - Simona Tiberi
CFU
9
Course Regulation
Coorte 2021
Offered
2021/22
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
Forms of life, rules and "chords": language, arts and aesthetics in Wittgenstein.
Reference texts
Part A: Institutional part: FOR ALL STUDENTS:One free choice between the following texts as introductory studies to the philosophy of language : PENCO Carlo,Introduzione alla filosofia del linguaggio,Laterza Roma-Bari, 2004 sgg. orMARCONI D., Filosofia del linguaggio, UTET Torino 2008 e sgg.;
Part B Monographic focus: For students attending to EARN 6 CREDITS,one free choice text among the following texts: A. G. Gargani, Wittgenstein. Dalla verità al senso della verità, edizioni PULS, Pisa 2003; J. Schulte, Coro e legge. Wittgenstein e il suo contesto, PensaMultimedia Lecce 2007; AAVV., Wittgenstein,l'estetica e le arti, a cura di E. Caldarola, D. Quattrocchi, G. Tomasi, Carocci, Roma 2013 (8 essays); For students attending to earn 9 credits,besides the selected text among Gargani, Schulte and Caldarola-Quattrocchi-Tomasi, the study of S. Oliva, La chiave musicale di Wittgenstein, Mimesis, Milano-Udine 201, is requested .
Educational objectives
The course aims to introduce to history, key notions and methods of Philosophyof Language, with specific regard to its syntactical, semantical and pragmaticalarticulations. Students are expected to acquire basic notions of the research field, ability to enucleate problems and itineraries for their possible solutions, and a critical awareness as different aspects relative to language uses are concerned, as it can be seen from both its historical and theoretical developments.In part B, it will be shown the relationship between Wittgenstein (both in his texts and in secundary literature), aesthetical inquiry and the arts.
Prerequisites
None
Teaching methods
FACE TO FACE LESSONS
Other information
Part of lessons shall be dedicated to reading and analysing classicalpages from the major texts of Philosophy of Language,adopting materialproposed by the teacher and aiming to discuss together selected items in seminar form. Texts from Wittgenstein works shall be provided from the teacher and also uploaded in Unistudium.
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
Part 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 examine issues concerning the role of the aesthetical perspective and the relationship with arts (music in part.) in Wittgenstein's
thought.
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