Upon successful completion of this course, each student should be able to:
discern the ontological and epistemological presuppositions of different theories of meaning
describe the referential, ideational and propositional approaches to meaning and cite at least one argument against each,
describe key logical-semantic notions such as truth, reference, implication, and entailment,
describe the truth-conditional approach to linguistic meaning,
describe the model-theoretic approach to linguistic meaning,
specify the basic tenets of the Speech Act theory,
define intentionality,
specify the distinctions between
semantics and pragmatics,
sentence meaning and speaker meaning,
sense and reference,
thought and proposition,
assertion and presupposition,
cite the key figures in philosophy of language along with their main contributions,
specify the role of mental representations in cognitive science,
specify the distinctive properties of the analytic and phenomenological approaches to the study of the mind,
make original comments on the relations among logic, language and cognition.