Mind and Language: Philosophical Perspectives (PHIL2015)
Information valid for Summer Semester, 2023
Course level
Undergraduate
Faculty
Humanities Arts Social Science
School
Historical & Philosophical Inq
Units
2
Duration
One Semester
Attendance mode
In Person
Class hours
Lecture 2 Hours/ Week
Tutorial 1 Hour/ Week
Incompatible
PHIL2050; PHIL2010
Assessment methods
Combination of short-answer and quiz questions, assignments, essays and/or take-home examination.
Course enquiries
Professor Deborah Brown (Summer Semester, St Lucia, In person)
Study Abroad
This course is pre-approved for Study Abroad and Exchange students.
Current course offerings
Course offerings | Location | Mode | Course Profile |
Summer Semester, 2024 (25/11/2024 - 08/02/2025) | St Lucia | Intensive | Profile unavailable |
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Course description
What is it to be a thinking and speaking being? Could one think without the capacity for language, or vice versa? Thinking and speaking a language are often heralded as definitively human characteristics. But what are these characteristics and how do they relate to one another? Are thought and talk capacities that could be automated? What, if anything, does the fact that we are moral beings have to do with our capacity for thought and talk? This course looks at these questions from a philosophical perspective, by looking at arguments about what kind of criteria we can use to ascertain whether something is thinking and how linguistic evidence fits into our picture of mind, as well as how language connects us to and shapes our actions and interactions with others within the world around us.
Archived offerings
Course offerings | Location | Mode | Course Profile |
Summer Semester, 2023 (27/11/2023 - 10/02/2024) | St Lucia | In Person | Course Profile |
Summer Semester, 2023 (27/11/2023 - 10/02/2024) | External | External | Course Profile |
Summer Semester, 2022 (28/11/2022 - 11/02/2023) | St Lucia | Internal | Course Profile |
Semester 1, 2021 (22/02/2021 - 19/06/2021) | External | External | Course Profile |
Summer Semester, 2021 (29/11/2021 - 29/01/2022) | External | External | Course Profile |