učni načrt predmeta / subject specification - Filozofska fakulteta ...

Vsebina:
Filozofija jezika ima številna področja, a ta
seminar se bo osredotočal na referenco in
pomen iz naturalističnega gledišča. Splošno
prepričanje je, da držijo relacije reference med
jezikom in mislimi ali jezikom in svetom.
Najbolj očiten primer je relacija poimenovanja,
kot je relacija med ‘Sokratom’ in slavnim
filozofom Sokratom. Druge vrste besed imajo
drugačno referenčno relacijo s svetom;
običajno jo imenujemo ‘denotacija’ ali
‘aplikacija’. Filozofi se običajno zanimajo za
referenco, ker verjamejo, da je srž pomena.
Ključno vprašanje o referenci je: V luči česa
ima izraz, pojem svojo referenco? Da bi
odgovorili na vprašanje moramo oblikovati
teorijo, ki razloži relacijo med pojmom in
njegovim referentom. Zadnja leta se je
zanimanje za ustrezno teorijo reference
stopnjevalo.
Če pogledamo širše, bomo obravnavali tudi
vprašanje pomena. Spraševali se bomo, kaj so
naloge semantike? Zakaj sploh imajo pomen in
smisel? Kako jih doseči? Seminar bo
obravnaval našteta ‘metodološka’ vprašanja in
poskušal v duhu naturalizma nanje odgovarjati.
FF UM, Študijski program 3. stopnje Filozofija
Content (Syllabus outline):
Philosophy of language is a big field and this
course will be restricted and concentrated most on
reference and meaning from a naturalisti point of
view. It is usual to think that referential relations
hold between language and thoughts on the one
hand, and the world on the other. The most
striking example of such a relation is the
namingrelation, the sort that holds between
‘Socrates’ and the famous philosopher Socrates.
Other sorts of words are best seen as having other
sorts of referential relations to the world for which
various terms are used; for example, ‘denotation’
and ‘application’. Usually, philosophers are
interested in reference because they take it to be
the core of meaning.
The central question about reference is: In virtue
of what does a term have its reference?
Answering this requires a theory that explains the
term’s relation to its referent. There has been a
great surge of interest in theories of reference in
recent years.
More broadly general questions about
meaning will be considered, too. So we ask what
are the semantic tasks? Why are they
worthwhile? How should we accomplish them?
The course will examine these “methodological”
questions and consider naturalistic answers.