Phil 6014: Philosophy of Language
Fall 2010
Mondays, 3:15am-6pmInstructor: Ted Parent
Office: Major Williams Hall 221
Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 1-2pm
Email: parentt@vt.edu
Syllabus
Additional Course Materials:
Handout: Philosophy Vocabulary
Handout: Philosophy of Language Vocabulary
Handout: Basic Assumptions in Philosophy of Language
Handout: What is the Task of Semantic Theory?
Handout: Frege's term 'Bedeutung'
Notes on Frege
Notes on Mill
Meinong, The Theory of Objects
Notes on Meinong
Notes on Russell
Notes on Wittgenstein's Tractatus
Notes on Carnap and Hempel
Susan Stebbing, Logical Positivism and Analysis
Susanne Langer, chapter 1 of Philosophy in a New Key
Notes on Quine vs. Grice & Strawson
Handout: Two Arguments for Semantic Indeterminacy
Notes on Quine and Translation
Alice Ambrose, Linguistic Approaches to Philosophical Problems
Handout: Sections 138-242 of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations
Handout: Sections 243-315 of Wittgensteins' Philosophical Investigations
Handout: Wittgenstein-esque Arguments on Rules and Privacy
Notes on Austin, Searle, and Grice
Notes on Strawson, Donnellan, and Grice
Notes on Tarski and Davidson
Notes on Lectures I and II of Kripke's Naming and Necessity
Notes on Kripke, re: Semantic vs. Speaker Reference
Notes on Putnam and Millikan
Last Updated: 9 June 2021
Background image is from Susan Howe (2002), Thorow.