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
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- 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.