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課程名稱 |
意義理論
THEORIES OF MEANING |
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開課學期 |
94-2 |
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授課對象 |
文學院 哲學研究所 |
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授課教師 |
楊金穆 |
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課號 |
Phl7711 |
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課程識別碼 |
124EM2970 |
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學分 |
3 |
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全/半年 |
半年 |
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必/選修 |
選修 |
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上課時間 |
星期四6,7,8(13:20~16:20) |
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上課地點 |
哲201 |
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備註 |
本課程以英語授課。
總人數上限：20人 |
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課程概述 |
This course is the fourth (in fact, the last) of the series of tutorial based courses on fundamental topics in the philosophy of language and logic. As I have remarked in the introduction to the series, I have chosen as the starting point the course ‘Theories of Reference’, and then two courses The Concept of Existence and Theories of Truth follow. I would then expect that the interested student may have already had a nodding acquaintance with the philosophical concepts of reference, truth, and existence, and related issues. In particular, the student should have some brief ideas about what a theory of reference/truth/existence is intended to do and may have some background knowledge of the main theses of and disputes between different philosophers/schools with regard to the philosophical issues related to these concepts. |
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課程目標 |
The main concern of this course is to pay further attention to the most fundamental issue: Granted that a sentence is true, what does the sentence mean when it is stated, or asserted? From a philosophical point of view, to answer a question of this kind, we need to have clear picture of what the concept of meaning is. It is the main burden of this course to give a brief introduction to a variety of conceptions of meaning and to various different approaches to a theory of meaning. |
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課程要求 |
The course is essentially tutorial-based. Each week, a classical paper, or a chapter in a classical book, is assigned as a required reading. But no problem sheet will be distributed. The student has to write a 3-5 pages summary of the assigned readings together with remarks and/or discussions on two interesting points or issues. Students will have a two-on one or one-on one tutorial each week and a two-hour class to discuss/lecture about the topics in the assigned reading. [Time for tutorials will be individually arranged weekly.] The course will be divided into four units. And after the completion of each unit, students are asked to write an essay on some related issues/topics. |
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參考書目 |
Unit 1 The Fregean tradition
1.1 Frege’s concept of thought
Frege, G. (1918-19), ‘Thought’, in Gottlob Frege\'s Collected Papers－On Mathematics, Logic, and Philosophy, B. McGuinness (ed.), Oxford: Blackwell, 1984, 351-72.
1. 2 Russell’s logical atomism
Russell, B. (1918), ‘Facts and propositions’, ‘Particulars, predicates, and relations’, sections 1 and II of The Philosophy of Logical Atomism, reprinted in Logic and Knowledge, R. C. Marsh (ed.), London: George Allen and Unwin, 1956, 177-89, 189-203, respectively.
1.3 Quine’s challenge to empiricism
Quine, W. V. O. (1951), ‘Two dogmas of empiricism’, The Philosophical Review (1951); reprinted in From A Logical Point of View, second edition, revised, Harvard University, 1980, 20-46.
Unit 2 Pragmatic approach to meaning
2.1 Wittgenstein on meaning, understanding and rull-following
Blue and Brown Books §§1-5;
Philosophical Investigations, I, §§26-32; §§ 143-55; §§ 179-219;
Philosophical Grammar, §§44-51;
Zettel, §§ 278-80; §§ 293-314.
2.2 Austin’s performative programme
Austin, J. L. (1958), ‘Performative－Constative’, originally written in French and presented at a conference held at Royaumont in March 1958; English translation by G. J. Warnock firstly appeared in Philosophy and Ordinary Language, C. E. Caton (ed.), Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1963, 22-33; reprinted in Philosophy of Language, J. Searle (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971, 13-22.
----- (1962), How to do Things with Words, Chapter XI (pp.121-47), 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975.
2.3 Grice: meaning and implicature
Grice, H. P. (1957/[1989]), ‘Meaning’, Chapter 14 of Grice’s Studies in the Way of Words, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989, 213-224; originally appeared in Philosophical Review, vol. 66 (1957), 377-88, also reprinted in Philosophical Logic, P. F. Strawson (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967, 39-48.
-----(1976/[1989]), ‘Meaning revisited’, in Grice\'s Studies in the Way of Words, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989, 283-303.
Unit 3 Anti-realistic approach to meaning
3.1 Quine’s radical translation
Quine, W. V. (1990), ‘Meaning’, in Pursuit of Truth, revised edition, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992, 37-59.
3.2 Davidson’s truth-conditional programme of meaning
Davidson, D. (1967/[2001]), ‘Truth and meaning’, Syntheses 17: 304-23; reprinted in Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation, 2nd ed., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001, 17-36.
3.3 Dummett’s notion of a theory of meaning
Dummett, M. (1975/[1993]), ‘What is a theory of meaning?’ (I), in Mind and Language, S. Guttenplan, ed., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975, 97-138; reprinted in The Seas of Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993, 1- 33.
Unit 4. Davidson’s programme of a theory of meaning
4.1 Dummett vs. Davidson:
Davidson, D. (1986/[2005]), ‘A nice derangement of epitaphs’, in Truth and Interpretation: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Donald Davidson, E. LePore (ed.),Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986, 433-446; reprinted in Davidson, Truth, Language, and History, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, 89-107.
Dummett, M. (1986), ‘A nice derangement of epitaphs: Some comments on Davidson and Hacking’, in LePore (1986), 459-476.
4.2 Thought, language and meaning
Davidson, D. (1994/[2005]), ‘The social aspect of language’, in The Philosophy of Michael Dummett, B. McGuinness and G. Oliveri (eds.), Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1994, 1-16 (See also Dummett’s reply, pp. 257-267); reprinted in Davidson, Truth, Language, and History, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, 109-125.
-----(1997/[2005]), ‘Seeing through language’, Thought and Language, J. M. Preston (ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, 15-27; reprinted in Davidson, Truth, Language, and History, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, 127-141.
4.3 Truth and predication
Davidson, D. (2005), Truth and Predication, Chapter 6 and 7, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 120-163, (esp. 141-163)
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