Master 2024/2025

Problems of the Contemporary Philosophy of Language

Type: Elective course (Philosophical Studies)

Area of studies: Philosophy

Delivered by: School of Philosophy and Cultural Studies

Where: Faculty of Humanities

When: 1 year, 3 module

Mode of studies: offline

Open to: students of all HSE University campuses

Instructors: Vitaliy Dolgorukov

Master’s programme: Philosophical Antropology

Language: English

ECTS credits: 3

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The general overview of the basic issues of the contemporary philosophy of language. Contemporary Philosophy of Language started with seminal work of G. Frege and developed through the work of G.E. Moore, B. Russell and L. Wittgenstein to the philosophy of ordinary language of G. Ryle and G.L. Austin. Later the main focus of Philosophy of Language was shifted by the work W.V.O. Quine to the Theory of Reference which constitutes the main problem of Contemporary Philosophy of Language.