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Lecturer(s)
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Moural Josef, Doc. RNDr. CSc.
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Schuster Radek, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Analytic philosophy and the linguistic turn. Reference and singular terms: sense and reference of proper names (G. Frege), definite descriptions (B. Russell, P. F. Strawson, K. Donnellan), cluster theory of proper names (J. Searle), rigid designators and possible worlds (S. Kripke). Semantics and syntax: picture theory of language (L. Wittgenstein), meaning and verification, analytic a synthetic sentences (R. Carnap, M. Schlick, W. v. O. Quine), meaning and truth conditions (D. Davidson, A. Tarski). Semantics and pragmatics: meaning as using of words, language games and rules (L. Wittgenstein, F. Waismann), constatives and performatives, locution, illocution, perlocution (J. L. Austin), speech acts (J. Searle), meaning and intentionality, conversational implicatures (P. Grice). Post-analytic philosophy and the linguistic turn: anti-representationalism (R. Rorty), constructivism (N. Goodman) and realism (H. Putnam).
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Students' portfolio, Individual study, Textual studies, Lecture, Seminar
- Contact hours
- 52 hours per semester
- Graduate study programme term essay (40-50)
- 40 hours per semester
- Presentation preparation (report) (1-10)
- 10 hours per semester
- Preparation for an examination (30-60)
- 44 hours per semester
- Preparation for comprehensive test (10-40)
- 10 hours per semester
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| Knowledge |
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| to be versed in the history of Western philosophical tradition |
| to introduce the main thinkers and topics of analytic philosophy |
| to understand the basic methods and rules of propositional and predicate logic |
| to describe the basic characteristics, principles and rules of natural and artificial languages |
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| to analyze and interpret professional philosophical text in Czech and English |
| to follow the arguments of key representatives of analytic philosophy |
| to use the basic terminology of modern philosophy, logic and linguistics |
| to discuss abstract philosophical concepts and use logical arguments |
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| to describe the development of analytical thinking in the context of the philosophy of the 20th and 21st centuries |
| to explain key constructs, concepts and theories of analytical philosophy in their interconnections |
| to characterize in depth the works of the main representatives of the analytical philosophical tradition |
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| to solve problems of philosophy and science by clarifying the functioning of language |
| to apply different theories of meaning in exploring both natural and artificial sign systems |
| to analyze communication in terms of semantics, logic and pragmatics |
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| Individual presentation at a seminar |
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| Oral exam |
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Recommended literature
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Austin, J. L. How to do things with words : the William James Lectures delivered at Harvard University in 1955. 2nd ed. Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 1976. ISBN 0-19-281205-X.
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Ayer, Alfred. Language, truth and logic. London: Golancz, 1936.
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Coffa, J. Alberto; Wessels, Linda. The semantic tradition from Kant to Carnap : to the Vienna Station. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1993. ISBN 0-521-44707-0.
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Dummett, Michael. Origins of analytical philosophy. Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-674-64473-5.
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Fiala, Jiří. Analytická filosofie : druhá čítanka. 2., přeprac. vyd. Praha : O.P.S., 2006. ISBN 80-903733-1-9.
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Fiala, Jiří. Analytická filosofie : první čítanka. 1. díl. Plzeň : Západočeská univerzita, 2000. ISBN 80-7082-611-8_.
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Fiala, Jiří. Analytická filosofie : první čítanka. 2. díl. Plzeň : Západočeská univerzita, 2000. ISBN 80-7082-611-8.
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Fiala, Jiří. Analytická filosofie : třetí čítanka ; uspořádal Jiří Fiala. 1. vyd. Plzeň : Západočeská univerzita, 2002. ISBN 80-238-9518-4.
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Lycan, William G. Philosophy of language : a contemporary introduction. London ; Routledge, 2002. ISBN 0-415-17116-4.
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Martinich, A. P., Sosa, D. (eds.). A Companion to Analytic Philosophy. Oxford : Blackwell, 2001.
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Marvan, Tomáš. Otázka významu : cesty analytické filosofie jazyka. Vyd. 1. Praha : Togga, 2010. ISBN 978-80-87258-33-0.
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Peregrin, Jaroslav. Kapitoly z analytické filosofie. Vyd. 1. Praha : Filosofia, 2005. ISBN 80-7007-207-5.
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Quine, Willard Van Orman. From a logical point of view. 9, Logico-philosophical essays. 2nd ed. Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-674-32351-3.
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Waismann, F. Wittgenstein und der Wiener Kreis : aus dem Nachlass. Oxford, 1967.
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Waismann, Friedrich; Harré, Rom. The principles of linguistic philosophy. 2nd ed. Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1997. ISBN 0-333-62996-5.
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophishce Untersuchungen = Philosophical investigations. 4th ed. Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. ISBN 978-1-4051-5928-9.
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Tractatus logico-philosophicus. 1. vyd. Praha : Institut pro středoevropskou kulturu a politiku, 1993. ISBN 80-85241-30-7.
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