Mind, Language and Knowledge

Pre-requisites: None

Course objectives: Introduce students to the topics and issues that connect epistemology, philosophy of mind and philosophy of language.

Course description: Covering the following topics: identity and content of mental states, internalism and externalism in epistemology, philosophy of mind and philosophy of language, narrow and wide content of mental states, the difference between beliefs and other mental states, fundamentalism, coherentism, semantic monism and holism. During exercises, texts relevant to the topics covered in lectures are analyzed and discussed.

Learning Outcomes: Students gain knowledge of the subject area in which epistemolgy, philosophy of mind and philosophy of language are intertwined.

Literature/Reading:

• Guttenplan, A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind; Challmers, Philosophy of Mind; Lycan, Mind and Cognition; Lazović, "Funkcionalizam i qualia", Theoria