Course Objectives:Analytic philosophy is (one of) the dominant schools of contemporary academic philosophy, especially in the English-speaking world. It was founded on the groundbreaking mathematical and linguistic ideas of Gottlob Frege, which were later developed and creatively applied by Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein to answer broader questions about ontology, logic, science, aesthetics, and the mystical, among other philosophical questions.
In this course, we will spend most of our time reading and carefully analyzing what is considered Frege's masterpiece: 'Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik' ('The Foundations of Arithmetic'), first published in 1884. We will then discuss Russell's article 'On Denoting' ('On Direct Denotation'), first published in 1905 in the journal Mind and considered by many scholars to be the 'paradigm of philosophy'.
The final part of the course will focus on Wittgenstein's curious doctoral dissertation, 'Logisch-philosophische Abhandlung', first published in 1921 as a monograph in the Annalen der Naturphilosophie, and commonly known by its Latin translation as 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus', or simply 'Tractatus'.
Course participants:
This course is aimed at lecturers, researchers, postgraduate students, and interested people, but does not exclude students at other levels.
Class discussions, in principle, do not require in-depth knowledge of any particular subject. Reading materials will be uploaded online or sent by email. Students are expected to read these materials as best they can and as far as possible. Concepts and presuppositions necessary for understanding key content will be explained in class.
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Course Schedule:- Study time:
12 sessions every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 9am - 11:30am- Opening time: From date
05/08 - 28/08/2024
Form and location of study:- The course is free of charge.
- Learning form: Direct
- Location: Faculty of Philosophy, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, 4th Floor, Building B, No. 336, Nguyen Trai, Thanh Xuan, Hanoi
Instructor Introduction:Dr. Trinh Huu Tue received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his Habilitation from Humboldt University. His research focuses on syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and the early philosophy of Wittgenstein. His publications include Synthese, Linguistics & Philosophy, Natural Language Semantics, and Journal of Pragmatics.
The course will feature Professor Ngo Bao Chau as a guest speaker in the final part of the segment on Frege, where the focus of discussion will be on the connection between Frege's results and Giuseppe Peano's axioms on natural numbers and the place of these axioms, especially the axiom of induction, in arithmetic.
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