PHILOSOPHY | University of Parma

Professor: Roberto PINZANI
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

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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

Course title: Categorial Grammars

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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2030 agenda goals for sustainable development

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Contacts

President of the degree course

Prof. Wolfgang Huemer
E. wolfgang.huemer@unipr.it

Faculty advisors

Prof. Roberto Pinzani
E. roberto.pinzani@unipr.it
Prof.ssa Irene Binini
E. irene.binini@unipr.it

Career guidance delegate

Prof. Andrea Bianchi
E. andreabianchi@unipr.it

Tutor Professors

Parma
Prof. Wolfgang Huemer
E. wolfgang.huemer@unipr.it

Ferrara
Prof. Matteo V. D'Alfonso
E. matteovincenzo.dalfonso@unife.it

Modena e Reggio Emilia
Prof.ssa Annalisa Coliva
E. annalisa.coliva@unimore.it

Erasmus delegates

Prof. Wolfgang Huemer
E. wolfgang.huemer@unipr.it
Prof. Italo Testa
E. italo.testa@unipr.it

Quality assurance delegate

Prof. Pierfrancesco Fiorato
E. pierfrancesco.fiorato@unipr.it

Internships

Parma
Prof. Gemmo Iocco
E. gemmo.iocco@unipr.it

Ferrara
Prof. Andrea Gatti
E. andrea.gatti@unife.it

Modena e Reggio Emilia
Prof. Giacomo Scarpelli
E. giacomo.scarpelli@unimore.it

Tutor students

Dott. ssa Leda Bonifai
E. leda.bonifai@studenti.unipr.it

LOGIC cod. 12981