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Class Detail:
WN 2010 Philosophy PHIL 409 - Philosophy of Language Section 001
Credits:	3
Waitlist Capacity:	99
Advisory Prerequisites:	PHIL 296, 303, or 414.
Repeatability:	May not be repeated for credit.
Primary Instructor:	Swanson,Eric Peter
	(real time availability for all sections)

How can a sentence, a belief, or a picture represent something? This problem — the problem of intentionality — is of fundamental importance to analytic philosophy. We will discuss a special case: the problem of intentionality as it presents itself in language. Readings will include classic work by Frege, Russell, Strawson, Wittgenstein, Searle, Kripke, Putnam, and Evans. The prerequisite for this course is PHIL 345 or PHIL 383, and one course in formal logic. The logic course may have been taken in a computer science or math department.

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Textbooks/Other Materials (data maintained by department in Wolverine Access)



ISBN: 0195188306	The philosophy of language, Author: ed. by A.P. Martinich, Publisher: Oxford Univ. Press 5. ed. 2008
Required

ISBN: 0674598466	Naming and necessity, Author: Saul A. Kripke, Publisher: Harvard Univ. Press 1980
Required	Other Textbook Editions OK.

ISBN: 0024288101	Philosophical investigations the English text of the third edition, Author: by Ludwig Wittgenstein. Transl. by G. E. M. Anscombe, Publisher: Macmillan 3. ed., [N 1992
Required