PHILO 36400: Philosophy of Language
Syllabus
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Discord Server
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First Essay
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Second Essay
Thursday, January 25th
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Introduction
Monday, January 29th
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Language as an Internal Computational System
Thursday, February 1st
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Semantics: Computing Meanings
Monday, February 5th
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Reference as a conceptual capacity
Thursday, February 8th
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Language as an innate structure
Monday, February 12th
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No Class
Thursday, February 15th
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Syntax and Semantics in Animal Communication?
Monday, February 19th
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No Class
Thursday, February 22nd
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Language as a Social Activity
Monday, February 26th
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Language and Rule Following
Wednesday, February 28th |
No Class
Thursday, February 29th |
No Class
Monday, March 4th
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Language and Performativity
Thursday, March 7th
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Speech Acts
Monday, March 11th
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Reference as a social activity
Thursday, March 14th
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Meaning and use
Monday, March 18th
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Formal system *and* social activity
Thursday, March 21st
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Language as a game with rules
Monday, March 25th
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Animal Pragmatics
Thursday, March 28th
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Grice on Indirect Communication
Monday, April 1st
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Insinuation
Thursday, April 4th
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Bullshitting
Monday, April 8th
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Bullshit
Thursday, April 11th
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Metaphor and Ineffability
Monday, April 15th
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Metaphor and Ineffability
Thursday, April 18th
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The Limits of Effability
April 22–30
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Spring Break
Thursday, May 2nd
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Hermeneutical Injustice
Monday, May 6th
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Artificial Intelligence and Language Models
Thursday, May 9th
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What (if anything) can we learn about human language from current AI?