Postgraduate Course: Philosophy of Linguistics (PHIL11189)
Course Outline
| School | School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | A postgraduate-level introduction to philosophical analysis of issues in linguistic science. |
| Course description |
Philosophy of science as it applies to linguistics; the ontology of language, languages, words, and expressions; grammars and syntax; language and thought; language and the external world; the normativity of language; learnability and language acquisition; intuition and the nature of the evidence for linguistic theories.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- acquainted with several of the kinds of arguments used in contemporary analytic philosophy
- appreciate the character of a selection of the kinds of arguments used in modern theoretical linguistics
- formulate and defend or critique positions on key controversies in the philosophy of linguistic science
- evaluate the state of the literature in philosophy of linguistics
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Reading List
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy articles on 'Philosophy of Linguistics', 'Concepts', 'Innateness and language', and 'Reflective equilibrium';
Selections from works by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Saul Kripke, Noam Chomsky, Crispin Wright, Ruth Millikan, David Lewis, Charles Hockett, Jerry Fodor, Fiona Cowie, and Michael Devitt; |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Rigorous reasoning about often difficult and controversial theoretical material and philosophical analysis. |
| Keywords | language,linguistics,philosophy,epistemology,metaphysics |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Brian Rabern
Tel:
Email: brian.rabern@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Toni Noble
Tel: (0131 6)51 3188
Email: Toni.noble@ed.ac.uk |
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