ClassInfo - Spring 2025 Philosophy Classes

Spring 2025 | PHIL 8180 Section 001: Seminar: Philosophy of Language (65170)

Instructor(s): Peter Hanks
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:: 6 Credits
Grading Basis:: Student Option
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025

Wed 03:00PM - 05:30PM

UMTC, West Bank

Walter W Heller Hall 830
Enrollment Status:: Open (0 of 13 seats filled)
Also Offered:: Spring 2025
Fall 2021

Course Catalog Description:: Topics vary by offering. prereq: 4231 or instr consent
Class Description:: This seminar will be on Ludwig Wittgenstein's early views about language, mind, and metaphysics. The central text will be the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, but we will also read some earlier texts ("Notes on Logic", the 1914-16 Notebooks, the Proto-Tractatus), and possibly some later ones. The focus will be on the primary texts, but we'll also read some of the secondary literature.
Workload:: Other Workload: Class presentation and seminar paper.
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65170/1253
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:: 30 November 2017

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