- Docente: Paolo Leonardi
- Credits: 12
- SSD: M-FIL/05
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Semiotics (cod. 0968)
Learning outcomes
The student will yield a minimum competence in contemporary
philosophy of language, anchored to a longer investigation of one
problem, language and cognition.
Course contents
Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations.
Readings/Bibliography
L. Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations (Oxford
Blackwell 2009).
A. Kenny Wittgenstein (Oxford Blackwell 2006).
And one of the following texts:
A. Ahmed, ed, Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: A
Critical Guide (Cambridge at the UP 2010).
M. McGinn Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Wittgenstein and the
Philosophical Investigations (London Routledge 1997.
Weekly download the lectures notes at the URL:
http://web.dfc.unibo.it/paolo.leonardi/index.html
Teaching methods
Lectures and discussions on selected texts.
Assessment methods
Paper, to be in sent by email within the day before the exam
date. The paper's length all included has to be between 1750
and 1850 words, or between 11 and 13 thousands bytes. The
paper has to be sent me at the address paolo.leonardi ::at::
unibo.it. In some cases I will ask you to come for discussing
the paper.
Teaching tools
See web page
http://web.dfc.unibo.it/paolo.leonardi/index.html
Links to further information
http://web.dfc.unibo.it/paolo.leonardi/index.html
Office hours
See the website of Paolo Leonardi