TOPICS: PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE in Fall 2019 (PL2091A)

Philosophy of Language asks questions like these here: “What is language?”, “What does language do and how does it work?”, “Can we really understand each other, and if so, why is that possible?”, “What is the role of language in constituting societies and selves?”, “Is there a connection between language and social inequality?”

Combining and contrasting approaches from both the analytic and the continental tradition, this course provides an overview of the field from the 19th to the 21st century.