We take a look at some central text about meaning from the Philosophy of Language. On this page you find the schedule and the reader. Please note that the schedule might change.
Session |
Date & Place |
Chair |
Talk |
Readings |
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4.10. |
Rast |
Burggraf |
Frege (1892): "On Sense and Reference" |
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11.10. Sala 0.06 I&D |
Abreu |
Abreu |
Ayer (1936): Language, Truth and Logic. Ch. 3 & Appendix "The Principle of Verification" / Carnap (1950): "Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology" |
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18.10. Sala 1.06 I&D |
Rast |
Guedes |
Quine (1951): "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" |
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25.10. Sala 1.05 I&D |
Abreu |
Burggraf |
Quine (1960): Word and Object, Ch. 2: "Meaning and Translation" |
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1.11. Sala 1.05 I&D |
Rast |
Rast |
Kripke (1982): Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language, Chapter 2 "The Wittgensteinian Paradox" |
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cancelled due to strike - postponed to following week |
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15.11. Sala 1.06 I&D |
Abreu |
Paiva |
Davidson (1967): "Truth and Meaning" |
8.Radical Interpretation |
22.11. Sala 1.05 I&D |
Abreu |
Burggraf |
Davidson (1973): "Radical Interpretation" |
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29.11. Sala 1.05 I&D |
Rast |
Guedes |
Grice (1957): "Meaning" |
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6.12. Sala 1.05 I&D |
Rast |
Paiva |
Putnam (1975): "The Meaning of 'Meaning'" |
11. |
13.12. Sala 1.05 I&D |
Abreu |
Guedes |
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20.12. |
Rast |
Paiva |
Chomsky (1995): "Language and Nature" |
The three last sessions may be chosen from one of the following topics (depending on interests & preferences):
Topic |
Suggested Readings |
Externalist Mental Content & Social Externalism |
Burge(1979): "Individualism and the Mental" |
The Language of Thought Hypothesis |
Fodor (1990): Psychosemantics, Chapter 1 |
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The Quest for an Ideal Language, Leibniz' lingua universalis and calculus raciocinator |
Couturat (1901): La Logique de Leibniz, Ch. 3-4. |
The Sapir-Whorf Thesis, Linguistic Relativism |
Levinson (2009): "Language and Mind: Let's Get the Issues Straight!" / Levinson (2012): "Foreword to Language, Thought, and Reality" |
Here is the reader. To open it, you need an archive utility that can handle 7z archives.
These are more detailed text references for your information which might not be the versions we will be using in every case.
Ayer, A. J. (1936, 1971): Language, Truth and Logic. Victor Gollancz Ltd. Ch. 3 & Appendix "The Principle of Verification". Cit. in (1971), Penguin Classics edition.
Burge, T. (1979): "Individualism and the Mental", In French; Uehling & Wettstein (ed.): Midwest Studies in Philosophy IV, University of Minnesota Press, pp. 73-121. In Harnish pp. 393-446. Cit. in Burge, T. (2007): Foundations of Mind, Oxford UP, pp. 100-150.
Carnap, R. (1950): "Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology", Revue Internationale de Philosophie 4 (1950) 4, pp. 20-40.
Chomsky, N. (1995): "Language and Nature", Mind Vol. 104, No. 413 (Jan. 1995), pp. 1-61.
Couturat, L. (1901): La Logique de Leibniz, Felix Alcan, Paris, Ch. 2-3.
Davidson, D. (1967): "Truth and Meaning", Synthese Vol. 17 (1967). In Harnish pp. 598-614.
Davidson, D. (1973): "Radical Interpretation", Dialectica 27 (1973), pp. 314-328.
Frege, G. (1892): "Über Sinn und Bedeutung", Zeitschrift für Philosophie und philosophische Kritik (100), pp. 25-50.
Fodor, Jerry A. (1987): Psychosemantics, MIT Press.
Grice, H.P. (1957): "Meaning", Philosophical Review 66(3). Reprinted as Ch. 14 of Grice (1989), pp.213–223. In Harnish pp. 21-29.
Kripke, S. (1982): Wittgenstein on Rule Following and Private Language, Harvard UP.
Levinson, Stephen C. (2009): "Language and Mind: Let's Get the Issues Straight!", In Blum, S.D.: Making sense of language: Readings in culture and communication, Oxford University Press, pp. 95-104.
Levinson, Stephen C. (2012): "Foreword to Language, Thought, and Reality", In Whorf, Benjamin Lee: Language, Thought, and Reality. Second edition (2012) edited by Carroll, John B., Levinson, Stephen C. and Lee, Penny, MIT Press 2012, pp. vii-xxiii.
Putnam, H. (1975): "The Meaning of `Meaning'", In Putnam, H.: Mind, Language and Reality. Cambridge UP, pp. 215-271. In Harnish pp. 221-274.
Quine, W. V. O. (1951, 1964): "Two Dogmas of Empiricism", in Willard Van Orman Quine, ed., From a Logical Point of View, Oxford University Press, pp. 20-46.
Quine, W. V. O. (1960): Word and Object, John Wiley and Sons, New York, Ch. 2: "Meaning and Translation".
Strawson, P.F. (1964): "Intention and Convention in Speech Acts", The Philosophical Review, Oct. 1964, pp. 439-60. In Harnish pp. 40-56.
Harnish, R.M. (1994): Basic Topics in the Philosophy of Language, Harvester Wheatsheaf.
Kay, P. & Kempton, W. (1984): "What is the Sapir-Whorf-Hypothesis?", American Anthropologist Vol. 86, pp. 65-79.
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