LgBA10 Philosophy of language

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Mojmír Dočekal, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Mojmír Dočekal, Ph.D.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites
Lecture. Compulsory volitional subject. 2 hours weekly. Form of evalution: colloquium. The type of credit: A. The number of credits: 3. The maximal number of participants: 40. Devoted to all students of Masaryk University.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 36 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/36, only registered: 0/36, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/36
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
At the end of the course students should be able to know the most important concepts and authors from the history of philosophy of language (from Gottlob Frege to modern postanalytic tradition); students understand basic theoretical stances which philosophy of language offers for better understanding of meaning in natural language. Students will make reasoned decisions about main arguments for different schools of philosophy of language (classifying language as object external to mind, language as internal to mind, or language as social object).
Learning outcomes
The student will be able:
- to understand the most important schools in the analytic philosophy;
- to systematically search the connections between philosophy of language and its applications in linguistics;
- to understand (mostly semantic) regularities of natural language.
Syllabus
  • - meaning, truth, compositionality, realism, holism, private language, reference, internalism, externalism, philosophy of mind.
Literature
  • PEREGRIN, Jaroslav. Kapitoly z analytické filosofie. Vyd. 1. Praha: Filosofia, 2005, 319 s. ISBN 8070072075. info
  • Blackburn, Simon (1984): Spreading the Word. Groundings in the Philosophy of Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • PEREGRIN, Jaroslav. Význam a struktura. 1. vyd. Praha: Oikoymenh, 1999, 292 s. ISBN 80-86005-93-3. info
  • Valenta, Lubomír (2003): Problémy analytické filozofie. Historický úvod. Olomouc: Nakladatelství Olomouc.
  • PEREGRIN, Jaroslav. Logika ve filosofii, filosofie v logice : historický úvod do analytické filosofie. Praha: Herrmann a synové, 1992, 124 s. info
  • KOLÁŘ, Petr. Argumenty filosofické logiky. Vyd. 1. Praha: Filosofia, 1999, 327 s. ISBN 80-7007-121-4. info
  • Analytická filosofie. Edited by Jiří Fiala. 1. vyd. Plzeň: O.P.S. Michal V. Hanzelín, 2002, xxvi, 300. ISBN 8023895184. info
  • Analytická filosofie. Edited by Jiří Fiala. 1. vyd. Praha: O.P.S. Michal V. Hanzelín, 2000, 283 s. ISBN 8023885197. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
Written examination consisting of 5 questions focusing on the basic notions of the discipline
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 Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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