Course Information


Course Information
Course Title Code Semester L+U Hour Credits ECTS
PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE FEL406 3 + 0 3.0 6.0

Prerequisites None

Language of Instruction Turkish
Course Level Graduate Degree
Course Type Compulsory
Mode of delivery Lecture and Discussion
Course Coordinator
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Goals To provide students with knowledge of the relations between language and reality, representation and object; to acquire the ability of conceptualization of some philosophical issues relating with language.
Course Content Demonstrate basic problems of philosophy of language and to introduce various solutions to these problems.
Learning Outcomes 1) .Main problems about philosophy of language
2) .Language and reality, the relationship between design and the world
3) .Philosophical conceptualization of some language-related problems is discussed.
4) .Natural language and conventional language contrast are discussed.

Weekly Topics (Content)
Week Topics Teaching and Learning Methods and Techniques Study Materials
1. Week Cratylos: A distinction between natural language and conventional language Lecture; Question Answer
Colloquium
Problem Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
2. Week Rhetorics and Dialectic Lecture; Question Answer
Colloquium
Problem Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
3. Week Augustine: Learning of Language Lecture; Question Answer
Colloquium
Problem Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
4. Week Locke: Ideas and Words I Lecture; Question Answer
Colloquium
Problem Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
5. Week Locke: Ideas and Words II Lecture; Question Answer
Colloquium
Problem Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
6. Week Saussure: Semiotics I Lecture; Question Answer
Colloquium
Problem Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
7. Week Saussure: Semiotics II Lecture; Question Answer
Colloquium
Problem Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
8. Week Mid-term exams Lecture; Question Answer
Colloquium
Problem Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
9. Week Wittgenstein : Tractatus Lecture; Question Answer
Colloquium
Problem Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
10. Week Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations Lecture; Question Answer
Colloquium
Problem Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
11. Week Foucault: Order of Things I Lecture; Question Answer
Colloquium
Problem Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
12. Week Foucault: Order of Things II Lecture; Question Answer
Colloquium
Problem Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
13. Week Assessment Lecture; Question Answer
Colloquium
Problem Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
14. Week Final exams Lecture; Question Answer
Colloquium
Problem Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)

Sources Used in This Course
Recommended Sources
Atakan Altınörs, Dil Felsefesi Sözlüğü
Atakan Altınörs, Dil Felsefesine Giriş
Bertrand Russell, Felsefe Sorunları
Frege, Duyum ve Gönderge
J. L. Austin, Söylemek ve Yapmak
John Locke, İnsan Anlığı Üzerine Bir Deneme
John Searle, Söz Edimleri Kuramı
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Felsefi Soruşturmalar
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus-Logico-Philosophicus
Platon, Kratylos

ECTS credits and course workload
Event Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Course Duration (Total weeks*Hours per week) 14 3
Work Hour outside Classroom (Preparation, strengthening) 14 3
Homework 2 3
Presentation (Including Preparation Time) 2 3
Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.) 7 3
Midterm Exam 1 4
Time to prepare for Midterm Exam 3 3
Final Exam 1 3
Time to prepare for Final Exam 5 7
Total Workload
Total Workload / 30 (s)
ECTS Credit of the Course
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