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2018-2019 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2018-2019 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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PHIL 375 - Philosophy of Language


2018-2019 Catalog Year

Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
An examination of contemporary and recent views concerning the nature of language and the ways in which language is conceived as bearing on philosophical problems. Topics covered include theories of reference and meaning, truth, analyticity, opacity, proper names, definite descriptions, demonstratives, the possibility of translation, semantic representation, the nature of propositions.

Prerequisite(s): PHIL 111  and one other course in philosophy.
Offered: Every three semesters



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