Filosofia del llenguatge II

Basic Information

Course modules 2024/2025
Lecturer
Josep Macià
Semester
2nd.
Module
Background courses
Code
360965
Credits
6
Language
Català

Dates

Schedule
Tuesdays (11-13h) & Wednesdays (11-12h)
Location
Classroom: 412. Philosophy Faculty, UB Raval.

Description

1. Wittgenstein: the “Tractatus”.

2. Meaning as a use in Wittgenstein's “Investigations”.

3. Grice: meaning and intentions

4. Acts of speech

5. Meaning beyond saying: conversational implicatures

6. The Chomskyan conception of language

 

At least three of the six topics mentioned in the syllabus will be covered. The study of each topic will be based on the reading and discussion of a brief central text. In the classes, the teacher will explain the different topics of the course, and will also comment on and discuss the selected texts, which the students must have read beforehand. The teacher will assign exercises to help students to better understand and assimilate the topics covered; these exercises (which will be corrected in class) will be done as part of the non-classroom activities and independent work.

Evaluation

Avaluació contínua

Requirements: there are no additional requirements to the general requirements established by the regulations.

Type: individual.

Characteristics: two partial theoretical/practical exams. Each exam represents between 40% and 60% of the final grade. The exact distribution is determined by each professor before the first partial exam is taken.

Date: the first partial exam is halfway through the class period and the second at the end of this period. 

 

Avaluació única

Requirements: all students who have not taken the second partial exam can take it. (According to the regulations, in order to take the single evaluation it is necessary to fill out an application form requesting to take this exam; in this course, this application form can be filled out on the same day of the single evaluation exam, as the printed form will be provided with the exam. Therefore: the deadline to fill in the application form to take the single assessment will be the same day as the official date of the single assessment exam).

Type: individual.

Characteristics: single exam, in person, of all the subjects taught, including practical classes.

Date: see the teaching calendar.

 

Re-evaluation

Requirements: students who have not yet passed the course and who meet the possible minimum requirements established by the Faculty of Philosophy in general, or other general requirements determined by UB regulations, may be accepted. (At the time of writing this teaching plan, the Faculty's Board of Studies has agreed that in order to take the re-evaluation it is necessary to have been previously evaluated and to have a minimum grade of at least a 2). 

Type: individual.

Characteristics: a single in-person exam of all the subjects taught, including practical classes. It is possible to obtain any of the qualifications, including honors.

Date: see the teaching calendar.