2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog

PH 216 Truth & Meaning

Historical investigation of the nature of meaning and language, with a particular focus on work done since the mid-nineteenth century. Explores the relationship between the meaning of a proposition and the conditions for the possibility of its truth or verification, and the extent to which all meaning and understanding are (or are not) unified into a holistic "conceptual scheme."

Credits

3

Prerequisite

Take a 3 credit PH 100-level course