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Thursday
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The course introduces basic topics in philosophy of language, semantic and pragmatics. We will read classical papers by Russel (On denoting, Descriptions), Frege (Sense and Reference), Strawson (On Referring), Grice (Meaning, Logic and Conversation), Austin (Speech Acts), and a selection of modern ones in pragmatics and semantics.
Basic notions and concepts in pragmatics such as implicatures, presuppositions, speech acts, deixis will be introduced, as well as basic formal tools used in semantics (propositional and predicate logic).
Requirements: Active participation and a presentation in class
Graded: A written test (in class)