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Degree
Master
Standard Academic Year
Half
Course delivery methods
face-to-face
Subject
Languages
Program
School
College of Liberal Arts
Department
Campus
Shuiyuan Campus
Classroom
Course Offering Year
Course Offering Month
September - January
Weekday and Period
Thursday 7,8,9
Capacity
15
Credits
3
Language
English
Course Number
Phl7711

Theories of Meaning National Taiwan University

Course Overview

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.

Learning Achievement

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.

Competence

Course prerequisites

Grading Philosophy

Course schedule

Course type

Online Course Requirement

Instructor

Chin Mu Yang

Other information

Graduate Institute of Philosophy

Site for Inquiry

Please inquire about the courses at the address below.

Email address: http://www.philo.ntu.edu.tw/en/ann/