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Seminar on analytical philosophy texts [ LFILO1355 ]


3.0 crédits ECTS  30.0 h   1q 

Teacher(s) Crabbé Marcel ;
Language French
Place
of the course
Louvain-la-Neuve
Main themes Explications of celebrated texts by founding fathers of contemporary logic and philosophy of language.
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.
Content

A first part of the course will be devoted to the explanation of three texts of the turn  of the 20th century, which accompany the birth of the new logic, namely  Russell's  "Mathematical Logic as based on the Theory of  Types" and two texts  from the  Lwow-Warsaw  school   (Lukasiewicz' "On the Principle of contradiction by Aristotle",  Tarski's "The concept of truth in formalized language").
A second part will give an outline of the principal contemporary orientations of the philosophical problems of the language:  exploitation of formal languages, informal analyses  of the so called   ordinary language,   formalization of the natural language. Concepts thus released will then be  used in the explanation of   two seminal papers: "Logic and Conversation" by Grice, and  "The Meaning of "Meaning" " by Putnam.

Cycle et année
d'étude
> Bachelor in Philosophy
> Preparatory Year for Master in Philosophy
> Certificat universitaire en philosophie (approfondissement)
> Preparatory Year for Master in Ethics
> Master [120] in Linguistics
Faculty or entity
in charge
> EFIL


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