LOGIC
cod. 02607

Academic year 2009/10
1° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Logica e filosofia della scienza (M-FIL/02)
Field
Istituzioni di filosofia
Type of training activity
Characterising
40 hours
of face-to-face activities
6 credits
hub:
course unit
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Integrated course unit module: LOGIC AND HISTORY OF LOGIC (INTEGRATED)

Learning objectives

The objective of the course is to introduce to the contemporary debate on logical form and on the logical-philosophical analysis of natural language.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites. It is however useful to have a rudimentary knowledge of the logic of propositions and of the calculus of first order.

Course unit content

The purpose of the course is the syntactical and semantic analyses of sentences. Some modern and contemporary theories will be considered offering logical and linguistic analyses; in particular those of Frege, Russell, Quine (with regard to logic tradition), Chomski, Montague, Lambek (regarding the linguistic or logical-linguistic tradition. 

Full programme

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Bibliography

Lecture notess relating to the courses can be downloaded from the website http://www.slprbo.unipr.it in the folder "documents" (password access for course participants).

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