Philosophy | University of Parma

Professor
Academic discipline: Logica e filosofia della scienza (M-FIL/02)
Field: Istituzioni di filosofia
Type of training activity: Characterising

48 hours
of face-to-face activities

6 credits

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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 linguistic predicates.
Some modern and contemporary theories will be considered offering logical and
linguistic analyses; in particular that of Montague (in 'The proper treatment of quantification in ordinary English).

Full programme

In approaching Montague's grammar, we refer particularly to The Proper Treatment
of Quantification in Ordinary English, concentrating on certain specific topics. The
first point on which the course focuses is the distinction between 'formal' and
'material' meaning of syntactic types; the second area is the concept of the syntactic
analysis tree. These aspects are developed further in Montague and by
contemporary scholars, in part with regard to (meta) theoretical interaction. In the
second part of the course, different approaches to syntactic types are considered.
For instance, in Lambek's grammar, the objects of a certain category are seen as
'material' meanings of the syntactic types, whereas the corresponding objects of the
semantic meaning (considered as a category) constitute the 'formal' counterparts.

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).

Teaching methods

Oral lessons

Assessment methods and criteria

short paper + oral examination

Other information

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LOGIC cod. 02607