Philosophy (PHIL)
Department of Philosophy
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
PHIL 4507 [0.5 credit]
Contemporary Formal Semantics
Topics may include: desiderata for an empirical theory of meaning; philosophical and logical precursors to contemporary truth-conditional semantics; Montague grammar and/or other intensional frameworks; quantification, anaphora, and logical form; boundaries between syntax, semantics and pragmatics; recent applications of formal semantics.
Prerequisite: two of
PHIL 2001, LALS/COMM/PHIL 2504,
LALS 2003,
LALS 3505.
Lectures three hours a week.