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Erich Rast, Ph.D.
Philosophy of Language, Value Theory, Logic, Ontology,
Formal Epistemology, 20th Century Philosophy |
This course for masters students is
a gentle introduction to preference-based values, as they
are commonly used and discussed in Analytical Ethics,
Economics & Decision Making and Social Choice.
Up-to-date information can be found on the courses's
homepage.
In this course for masters students
we read and dicsuss key texts on meaning in the Philosophy
of Language by authors such as Frege, Carnap, Ayer, Quine,
Davidson, Kripke, Grice, Chomsky, and Leibniz. Up-to-date
information can be found on the courses's
homepage.
This is an introductory logic course
(logic, not semantics!) for linguists. It covers basic set
theory, propositional logic, first-order logic, and some
higher-order logic with categorial grammar - but the last
topic has fallen prey to time constraints. Check out the
course page for updated versions of the lecture notes.
This course covers various semantic,
epistemic, and modal aspects of Kripke's Naming and
Necessity up to recent debates about Millianism
versus descriptivism. Among the topics to be discussed are
theories of reference, natural kind terms, the nature of
modality, the Mind-Body problem, and many more. More
information is available on the course
page.
This short introductory course
covers basic topics in the analytical philosophy of language
such as Frege's Sense and Reference distinction, theories of
reference and rigid designation, referential opacity and
propositional attitudes, presuppositions, speech acts, and
conversational implicatures. A course page with downloadable
course slides in pdf format is available here.
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