PHIL 134Philosophy of Language
Examination of contemporary debates about meaning, reference, truth, and thought. Topics include descriptional theories of reference, sense and reference, compositionality, truth, theories of meaning, vagueness, metaphor, and natural and formal languages. May be repeated for credit two times with change of content.
Prerequisites
From the catalog: “upper-division standing or consent of instructor.”
Where it sits in degree plans
One of the options in (2)
- Linguistics (Cognition and Language) (B.A.)
- Philosophy (B.A.)