Philosophy of a Specific Discipline: Philosophy of Linguistics

Master

Please note that this specialisation will not be offered any longer in 2010-2011.

Philosophy of Linguistics is a specialisation of the MA programme in Philosophy of a Specific Discipline. The two-year Master’s programme in Philosophy of a Specific Discipline is intended for students in a particular academic discipline who are interested in the philosophical foundations and methodological aspects of that discipline.

For information about the objectives and general structure of the programme, the MA thesis and the requirements for graduation, please see the website of the MA in Philosophy of Specific Discipline. For a brief description of this specialisation click on ‘Informatie’ above.

Structure of the programme

First Year

10 EC / MA course in Philosophy
10 EC / MA course in Philosophy
10 EC / Specialist MA course in Philosophy of Linguistics
30 EC / MA courses in Linguistics

Second Year

10 EC / Specialist MA course in Philosophy of Linguistics
10 EC / MA courses in Linguistics
10 EC / Literature Study in the area of the MA thesis
30 EC / MA thesis

First/Second Year

Course	EC	Semester 1	Semester 2
Specialist MA courses in Philosophy of Linguistics
Philosophy of Linguistics I : Demonstrative Terms	10
Philosophy of Linguistics II : Assertion	10
MA courses in Philosophy
Ancient and Medieval Philosophy of Language and Semantics	10
Emotion, Cognition and Rationality	10
Filosofie van de literatuur II	10
Filosofie, psychiatrie en neurowetenschappen	10
Free Will and Determinism	10
History of Ancient Philosophy: Plato Timaeus: Science, Nature and Humanity	10
Morality and Rationality	10
Nietzsche and Politics	10
Political Obligation	10
Rationality and Action	10
Rechtvaardige en onrechtvaardige oorlogen. De traditie van de 'justum bellum'	10
Seminar Ancient Philosophy: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics: philosophical issues, rhetorical aspects	10
The Great Debate over the Rationality of Science: Kuhn, Popper, Feyerabend, and the Vienna Circle	10
Truth and Truthfulness	10
Walter Benjamin	10
Wijsgerige antropologie	10
Wijsgerige antropologie IV	10
Wittgensteins Tractatus	10

Course

Semester 1

Semester 2

Specialist MA courses in Philosophy of Linguistics

Philosophy of Linguistics I : Demonstrative Terms

Philosophy of Linguistics II : Assertion

MA courses in Philosophy

Ancient and Medieval Philosophy of Language and Semantics

Emotion, Cognition and Rationality

Filosofie van de literatuur II

Filosofie, psychiatrie en neurowetenschappen

Free Will and Determinism

History of Ancient Philosophy: Plato Timaeus: Science, Nature and Humanity

Morality and Rationality

Nietzsche and Politics

Political Obligation

Rationality and Action

Rechtvaardige en onrechtvaardige oorlogen. De traditie van de 'justum bellum'

Seminar Ancient Philosophy: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics: philosophical issues, rhetorical aspects

The Great Debate over the Rationality of Science: Kuhn, Popper, Feyerabend, and the Vienna Circle

Truth and Truthfulness

Walter Benjamin

Wijsgerige antropologie

Wijsgerige antropologie IV

Wittgensteins Tractatus

Description

Philosophy of Linguistics deals with questions that are considered by philosophers to belong to linguistics, and by linguists to belong to philosophy. It deals with such questions as what the meaning is of demonstratives, what the role is of the first person in assertions and whether semantics of mood can be given independently of the pragmatic notion of force. Philosophy of linguistics deals with linguistic problems that are essentially related to topics in epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.