UCL - Philosophical texts V: Critical reading in Analytic Philosophy

[FILO1355]

[30h] 3 credits

This course is taught in the 1st semester.

Teacher(s): Marcel Crabbé

Language: French

Level: First

Aims
Main themes
Content and teaching methods

Aims

The course aims at providing students with tools that would
allow them to read, to interpret and to comment on philosophical texts of analytical style. At the end of the course they should in particular be able to understand what is at stake in the philosophical debates concerning logic and language and, if they wish it, to commence a research in this area. Moreover, they will be able to locate these texts in the overall context of philosophy.

Main themes

Explications of celebrated texts by founding fathers of contemporary logic and philosophy of language.

Content and teaching methods

The course aims at providing students with tools that would allow them to read, to interpret and to comment on philosophical texts of analytical style. At the end of the course they should in particular be able to understand what is at stake in the philosophical debates concerning logic and language and, if they wish it, to commence a research in this area. Moreover, they will be able to locate these texts in the overall context of philosophy.