FI:V010 Philosophy of Language and Its

V010 Philosophy of Language and Its Problems I

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 1998

Extent and Intensity

2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

prof. PhDr. Ing. Miloslav Dokulil, DrSc. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Ing. Miloslav Dokulil, DrSc.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

Syllabus

Is language a problematic instrument? Is its postmodern interpretation well grounded?
Some preliminaries concerning a theory of the world, language, and the human mind.
What language is.
Some preliminaries on the philosophy of language.
Some implications caused by the philosophy of language in various spheres.
A historical consideration.
A sentence, a proposition, and the structure of the scepticism problem.
Sense and reference.
Description and its logical form.
Things and qualities, or truth and reality.
A priori and a posteriori.
An excursion into the sphere of speech acts.
Intervenes our language in the way man thinks?
The relationship between the mind and its body substrate as a problem.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.

The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2000, Autumn 2001.