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Nov 24, 2024
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Goucher College 2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.
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PHL 278 - Logic and Language (4 Cr.)
How can language make meaning clearer and lead us to agreement and lead us to think it represents the things and the world as they are? But why can language also conceal meaning and hide it? And create new meaning? How can language be the literal, the metaphorical, the evocative, and poetic? Why do we esteem logical reasoning, yet few seem to be convinced by it? The course begins with the study of the foundations of logic in Aristotle’s Organon (the collection of Aristotle’s six works on Logic) to explore the foundation and theory of representational language and thought. We then turn to critiques of that view of language in Heidegger’s encounter with Asian thought and poetry, and C.S. Pierce’s and William James’ Pragmatism. Prerequisite: Either sophomore standing, one philosophy course, or permission of the instructor. Fall semester. Offered 2018-19 and alternate years. Rose.
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