Analytic Philosophy
General data
Course ID: | 3501-WISIP-AnalP |
Erasmus code / ISCED: |
08.1
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Course title: | Analytic Philosophy |
Name in Polish: | Analytic Philosophy |
Organizational unit: | Institute of Philosophy |
Course groups: | |
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): |
(not available)
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Language: | English |
Type of course: | obligatory courses |
Mode: | Classroom |
Short description: |
The course is designed to acquaint students with major tenets of 20th century analytic philosophy. |
Full description: |
I have selected six topic areas of examination: I. The beginnings of analytic philosophy (Frege, Russell, early Wittgenstein), II. Truth and meaning (Tarski, Davidson, Quine), III. Language in action (Austin, Grice, late Wittgenstein); IV. Mind-body problem (Ryle, Place, Smart, Kripke, Putnam, Block); V. Cognitive architecture (McClelland, Rumelhart & Hinton, Fodor & Pylyshyn, Smolensky, Ramsey, Stich &Garon); V. Nativism versus constructivism (Piaget, Chomsky, Fodor, Putnam); VI. Modularity (Fodor, Sperber). |
Bibliography: |
Essential literature: Frege: On sense and nominatum, Russell: On denoting; Strawson: On referring; Kripke: Naming and necessity; Wittgenstein: Tractatus logico-philosophicus; Davidson: Truth and meaning; Quine: Quantifiers and propositional attitudes; Wittgenstein: Philosophical investigations; Austin: How to do things with words; Grice: Logic and conversation; Ryle: Descartes’ Myth; Place: Is consciousness a brain process?; Putnam: The nature of mental states; Block: Troubles with functionalism; McClelland, Rumelhart & Hinton: The appeal of parallel distributed processing; Fodor & Pylyshyn: Connectionism and cognitive architecture: a critical analysis; Smolensky: The constituent structure of connectionist mental states; Ramsey, Stich &Garon: Connectionism, Eliminativism, and the Future of Folk Psychology; Piaget: The psychogenesis of knowledge and its epistemological significance; Chomsky: On cognitive structures and their development: a reply to Piaget; Putnam: What is innate and why? Comments on the debate; Fodor: Modularity of Mind; Sperber: The Modularity of Thought and the Epidemiology of Representations. |
Learning outcomes: |
Knowledge: The student will be made familiar with major tenets of analytic philosophy and will be acquainted with the concepts and methods used by eminent representatives of this philosophy. (K_W03, K_W06, K_W09, K_W10, K_W13, K_W14) Skills: The student will be suspicious of facile proposals to solve difficult questions by intuitive insights and will be warned against philosophical simplifications of any kind. (K_U03, K_U04, K_U05, K_U07, K_U10) Social competence: Clarity of thought and inquisitiveness. (K_K02, K_K10) |
Assessment methods and assessment criteria: |
Class participation, class presentation and exam testing the understanding of fundamental concepts and problems of analytic philosophy. Permissible number of absences: 2 |
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