FI:VB011 Philosophy of Language and Its - Course Information
VB011 Philosophy of Language and Its Problems II
Faculty of InformaticsSpring 2006
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: z (credit). Other types of completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. PhDr. Ing. Miloslav Dokulil, DrSc. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. Ing. Václav Přenosil, CSc.
Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Ing. Miloslav Dokulil, DrSc. - Timetable
- Wed 10:00–11:50 B007
- Prerequisites
- ! V011 Philosophy of Language and Its Problems II &&( V010 Philosophy of Language and Its Problems I || VB010 Philosophy of Language and Its Problems I )
It is not necessary to pass course VB010 to participate in this one. - 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
- there are 11 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- As an introduction serves a comparison of real processes with their model forming and interpretation. Follows an exposition of two mutually incongruous conceptions, on one side Chomsky's innate dispositions, on the other side inspirations by Foucault and Derrida. As a conclusion a broader (and modernized) introduction in the truth theory has been presented.
- Syllabus
- An introduction concerning the so-called "artificial intelligence".
- Some new reflections on reductionism.
- "To represent", or about signs.
- "To speak", or a theory of verbs.
- "To classify", or a system and method.
- "To exchange", or various types of communication.
- "To deconstruct", to make a "reconstruction"?
- In between of an anthropomorphic interpretation of nature and a physiomorphic self-interpretation of man.
- Interlude: Some paradigms "in the game".
- A metaphor within the theory of knowledge, or the problem of the inforrmation value and the mechanism of picturesque speech.
- First: the performative theory of truth.
- The correspondence theory of truth.
- The coherence theory of truth.
- Literature
- literatura se zadává na přednáškách
- Assessment methods (in Czech)
- Zápočet (kolokvium) v souladu s pokyny přednášejícího.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught once in two years.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2006, recent)
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