MA PROGRAMME PHILOSOPHY taught in ENGLISH

Meaning and Truth

Lecturer: Assoc. Prof. Aneta Karageorgieva Requirements: 1 final paper up to 2000 words (due on July 1st), Discussions Wednesdays 15-17, room 518, Block 4: March 2, 16, 23, April 6, 20, May 4, 25, June 8. The remaining weeks are reading weeks. Main topics

1. Philosophy of language as a theory of meaning. The relationship between meaning and truth.
The meaning of meaning (H. P. Grice).

2. The picture theory of meaning: Wittgenstein and his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.

3. Another version of realistic semantics: Alfred Tarski. 4. The holistic theory of meaning: W. v. O. Quine.

5. Intentionalist semantics: H. P. Grice, Logic and Conversation. 6. Pragmatist semantics: J.Austin, J. Searle and the theory of speech acts.
7. Truth and Meaning in an anti-realist perspective: D. Davidson.

Readings: 1. Wittgenstein L., Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus,

http://www.kfs.org/~jonathan/witt/tlph.html or http://www.voidspace.org.uk/psychology/wittgenstein/tractatus.shtml Comments at: http://cfh.ufsc.br/~mafkfil/pears.htm Tarski A., The Semantic Conception of Truth and the Foundations of Semantics, in: Martinich A. R., The Philosophy of Language, Oxford University Press, 1996, or at: www.ditext.com/tarski/tarski.html Grice H. P., Meaning, in:. Martinich A. R., The Philosophy of Language, or: www.histanalytic.org/Grice.htm and his Logic and conversation in: Martinich A. R., The Philosophy of Language or at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ls/studypacks/Grice-Logic.pdf J. L. Austin, How to do Things with Words (attached). Comments at: http://w210.ub.unituebingen.de/dbt/volltexte/2006/2273/pdf/Dissertation_Doerge.pdf J. Searle, (attached). Speech acts and recent linguistics.In: Expression and Meaning 1979 Davidson D., Truth and Meaning, in: Martinich A. R., The Philosophy of Language Comments at: http://www.wpunj.edu/cohss/philosophy/FACULTY/mandik/courses/lang/ReadingNotes/Davi dson.htm W. v. O. Quine, Two Dogmas of Empiricism, www.ditext.com/quine/quine.html Bach, Kent. Speech Acts ( entry from Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy), http://online.sfsu.edu/~kbach/spchacts.html Martinich A. R. (attached), Philosophy of Language, in: The Routledge History of Philosophy,

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