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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This course is an introduction to the philosophy of language. It examines different views on the nature of meaning, truth and reference, with special focus on the problem of understanding how linguistic communication works.
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- linguistics and philosophy
- nature of meaning
- reference
- truth
- and their relationships
- relationships between language and logic
- language and knowledge
- language and reality
- language and acts performed through its use
- logic
- linguistics
- language
- philosophy
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The class will be devoted to the work of David Lewis, one of the most exciting and influential philosophers of the late twentieth century. We will have seminar-style discussions about his work on counterfactuals, time, causation, probability, and decision-theory.
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- linguistics and philosophy
- counterfactuals
- comparative possibility
- counterfactual dependence
- time
- causation
- causal explanation
- probability
- subjectivity
- objectivity
- chance
- hume
- supervenience
- decision theory
- prisoners? dilemma
- newcomb problem
- free will
- determinism
- plurality of worlds
- possible worlds
- time travel
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The seminar will be devoted to understanding what we're up to when we ascribe contents to a person's assertions and mental attitudes. We seek to make clear the rules of the game for the philosophy of language. We'll survey classic discussions of the issue by Field, Lewis and Stalnaker. But much of the emphasis of the class will be on gettin
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- linguistics and philosophy
- radical interpretation
- mathematical truth
- self-location
- degrees of belief
- incoherent belief
- language of thought
- representation system
- modeling representation
- intentionality
- philosophy of language
- putnam's paradox
- semantics
- logical omniscience
- epistemology
- knowledge argument
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The objective of the graduate-level course is to give people a sense of what "accounting for vagueness" is all about, why it's hard, and why it's important. This will involve surveying some prominent accounts of vagueness.
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- linguistics and philosophy
- vagueness
- sorites paradox
- truth
- supervaluationism
- epistemicism
- contextualism
- nihilism
- relativism
- logical revisionism
- interdeterminacy
- language
- inexact knowledge
- logic
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