New courses in Linguistics and Philosophy from MIT OpenCourseWare, provider of free and open MIT course materials. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy 2022-02-11T17:22:13+05:00 MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu en-US Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course focuses on the process by which native speakers of a language acquire the ability to speak and understand that language. It covers some of the major results in the study of first-language acquisition, concentrating on morpho-syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. The findings primarily come from English, but cross-linguistic differences in the phenomena of interest and corresponding differences in acquisition patterns are considered where appropriate. Of interest throughout is how these developmental data inform linguistic theory and/or learnability theory. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/24-949-language-acquisition-i-fall-2020 Fall 2020 Aravind, Athulya 2021-08-20T13:26:11+05:00 24.949 en-US morpho-syntax semantics pragmatics learnability root infinitives A-movement binding quantification definites presupposition implicatures MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course is an advanced study of the basic problems of philosophy and is intended for first-year graduate students in philosophy. It is an intensive seminar on selected highlights of analytic philosophy from roughly 1960 to the present. The seminar is divided into five sections: Language, Metaphysics, Mind, Epistemology, and Moral/Political Philosophy. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/24-401-proseminar-in-philosophy-ii-spring-2020 Spring 2020 Byrne, Alex White, Roger 2020-10-26T19:56:05+05:00 24.401 en-US analytic philosophy language metaphysics mind epistemology moral philosophy political philosophy MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course is an introduction to the problems of philosophy—in particular, to problems in ethics, metaphysics, theory of knowledge, and philosophy of logic, language, and science. It takes a systematic rather than historical approach. Readings come from classical and contemporary sources, but emphasis is on examination and evaluation of proposed solutions to the problems. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/24-00-problems-of-philosophy-fall-2019 Fall 2019 Schoenfield, Miriam 2020-08-27T20:16:59+05:00 24.00 en-US God free will good bad race gender ethics faith subjectivism objectivism panpsychism determinism moral responsibility personal identity meaning of life time travel MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm All languages vary across geographic space and between social groups, and languages are always changing. It makes sense to study these phenomena together because they are intimately related: language change is the basic source of language variation. So studying language change can help us to understand variation, and the nature of linguistic variation provides evidence as to how language changes. Both illuminate the nature of grammar. The course will focus largely on variation and change in phonetics and phonology, and most case studies will be drawn from the English language. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/24-914-language-variation-and-change-spring-2019 Spring 2019 Flemming, Edward 2020-06-01T19:41:47+05:00 24.914 en-US language variation lexical variation language change dialects historical linguistics sociolinguistics phonetics syntax vowel contrast vowel merger MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course presents highlights of the more technical side of philosophy. It studies a cluster of puzzles, paradoxes, and intellectual wonders — from the higher infinite to Gödel's Theorem — and discusses their philosophical implications. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/24-118-paradox-and-infinity-spring-2019 Spring 2019 Rayo, Agustín 2019-12-04T19:24:36+05:00 24.118 en-US infinite cardinalities Omega-Sequence Paradoxes time travel Newcomb's Problem probability The Banach-Tarski Theorem computability Gödel's Theorem MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course explores languages that have been deliberately constructed, including Esperanto, Klingon, and Tolkien's Elvish. Students construct their own languages while considering the basic linguistic characteristics of various languages of the world. Through regular assignments, students describe the phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and writing system of their constructed language. The final assignment is a grammatical description of the new language. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/24-917-conlangs-how-to-construct-a-language-fall-2018 Fall 2018 Richards, Norvin W. 2019-06-07T14:32:34+05:00 24.917 en-US conlangs phonetics phonology writing systems alphabets morphology syntax semantics historical linguistics science fiction fantasy MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course is concerned with Negative Polarity Items. While raising familiar foundational questions for linguistic theory, Negative Polarity Items enter into complex and often revealing interactions with a host of other phenomena in grammar. Investigating several such interactions, the course touches on topics such as focus, presupposition, exhaustification, quantification, (in)definiteness, modals and attitudes, comparison and superlatives, and questions. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/24-979-topics-in-semantics-negative-polarity-items-fall-2018 Fall 2018 Crnic, Luka 2019-05-31T13:09:01+05:00 24.979 en-US semantics negative polarity items focus presupposition exhaustification quantification definiteness indefiniteness modals attitudes comparison superlatives entailment MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm Caribbean Creole languages result from language contact via colonization and the slave trade. In this course we explore the history of Creole languages from cognitive, historical and comparative perspectives. We evaluate popular theories about "Creole genesis" and the role of language acquisition. Then we explore the non-linguistic aspects of Creole formation, using sources from literature, religion and music. We also look into issues of Caribbean identities as we examine Creole speakers' and others' beliefs and attitudes toward their cultures. We also make comparisons with relevant aspects of African-American culture in the U.S. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/24-908-creole-languages-and-caribbean-identities-spring-2017 Spring 2017 DeGraff, Michel 2018-12-07T18:13:47+05:00 24.908 en-US Caribbean Creole Language Colonization Slavery Creolization Literature Identity Culture Religion Music Haiti History Politics Socioeconomics MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm Interdisciplinary survey of people of African descent that draws on the overlapping approaches of history, literature, anthropology, legal studies, media studies, performance, linguistics, and creative writing. This course connects the experiences of African-Americans and of other American minorities, focusing on social, political, and cultural histories, and on linguistic patterns. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/24-912-black-matters-introduction-to-black-studies-spring-2017 Spring 2017 DeGraff, Michel 2018-05-16T15:51:55+05:00 24.912 WGS.190 21H.106 21L.008 21W.741 21M.630 21A.125 en-US black studies Black Lives Matter race racism class gender African American Caribbean black social justice oppression Haiti language creole woke othering justice identity liberation African American English profiling discrimination code noir revolution human rights independence slavery freedom vodou culture civil rights immigration politics equality MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course is about the study of speech sounds; how we produce and perceive them and their acoustic properties. Topics include the influence of the production and perception systems on phonological patterns and sound change, students learn acoustic analysis and experimental techniques. Students taking the graduate version complete different assignments. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/24-915-linguistic-phonetics-fall-2015 Fall 2015 Flemming, Edward 2017-12-14T18:58:35+05:00 24.915 24.963 en-US linguistics phonetics language speech voice sound source-filter acoustics audition auditory analog-to-digital conversion grammar quantal theory vowels spectral analysis coarticulation adaptive dispersion perception lexical access frequency waveform spectrogram eletropalatography retroflex contrasts speech chain articulation vocal tract nasal lateral fricative oral praat spectrum spectral representation pitch signal glottis phonetic grammars phonetic universals tone voiced voiceless aspirated unaspirated Voice Onset Time VOT cross-linguistic variation larynx vocal folds vocal tract Helmholtz resonator perturbation theory lip rounding MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course explores the values (aesthetic, moral, cultural, religious, prudential, political) expressed in the choices of food people eat. Analyzes the decisions individuals make about what to eat, how society should manage food production and consumption collectively, and how reflection on food choices might help resolve conflicts between different values. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/24-03-good-food-ethics-and-politics-of-food-spring-2017 Spring 2017 Haslanger, Sally 2017-10-25T20:52:15+05:00 24.03 en-US food ethics hunger human welfare weight agriculture poverty ecology locavore vegan vegetarian speciesism activism junk food gender sexism animal welfare nutrition society politics famine morality crops eating meat addictive food geopolitics cosmopolitanism social status obesity weight stigma fast food health food deserts waste organic environment MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course will provide a selective historical survey of some philosophical approaches to questions of political economy and justice. Political economy is the integrated study of the relationships of government, political processes, property, production, markets, trade, and distribution from the standpoint of assessing these arrangements with respect to human welfare and justice. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/24-201-topics-in-the-history-of-philosophy-justice-political-economy-spring-2016 Spring 2016 Haslanger, Sally McKinney, Rachel 2016-11-01T15:41:18+05:00 24.201 en-US political economy justice government property trade human welfare equality common good imperialism slavery gender oppression globalization immigration policy Hobbes Locke Smith Rousseau Wollstonecraft Marx Mill Douglass Du Bois Rubin Pateman Mills Young Nussbaum MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course will introduce you to the Western philosophical tradition through the study of thinkers such as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Cavendish, Hume, and Kant. You'll grapple with questions that have been significant to philosophy from its beginnings: Questions about the nature of the mind, the existence of God, the foundations of knowledge, and the good life. You'll also observe changes of intellectual outlook over time, and the effect of scientific, religious, and political concerns on the development of philosophical ideas. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/24-01-classics-of-western-philosophy-spring-2016 Spring 2016 Haslanger, Sally Phillips-Brown, Milo Richardson, Kevin Saillant, Said 2016-10-12T20:06:19+05:00 24.01 en-US Plato Aristotle Descartes Cavendish Hume Kant god existence of god Socrates Margaret Cavendish John Stuart Mill W.E.B. Du Bois Simone de Beauvoir utilitarianism slavery women's rights MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course covers some of the basic ideas in the subfield syntax, within the framework often referred to as "Generative Grammar". https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/24-902-language-and-its-structure-ii-syntax-fall-2015 Fall 2015 Iatridou, Sabine 2016-07-25T17:09:06+05:00 24.902 24.932 en-US linguistics syntax language structure theory binding theory syntactic movement wh-movement verbs tense A-movement specifiers complementizers theta-roles subcategorization covert movement MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course is a graduate seminar surveying recent work on self-knowledge. Some questions that will be explored and discussed are: What is the distinctive philosophical interest of self-knowledge? Is self-knowledge really an epistemic achievement? Is it plausible that there is a uniform explanation of all distinctively first-personal self-knowledge? https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/24-805-topics-in-epistemology-self-knowledge-fall-2015 Fall 2015 Byrne, Alex Paul, Sarah K. 2016-04-27T19:37:56+05:00 24.805 en-US self-knowledge Ludwig Wittgenstein matter consciousness inner sense Ryleanism mind transparency reflection introspection perception neo-expressivism desire emotion intention MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course considers a range of philosophical questions about the foundations of morality, such as whether and in what sense morality is objective, the nature of moral discourse, and how we can come to know right from wrong. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/24-230-meta-ethics-fall-2015 Fall 2015 Khoo, Justin 2016-03-08T16:30:33+05:00 24.230 en-US moral statements morality ethics ethical inquiry scientific inquiry right and wrong moral realism plato naturalism moral anti-realism non-cognitivism reason MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm Modal logic is the logic of necessity and possibility, and by extension of analogously paired notions like validity and consistency, obligation and permission, the known and the not-ruled-out. This a first course in the area. A solid background in first-order logic is essential. Topics to be covered include (some or all of) the main systems of propositional modal logic, Kripkean "possible world" semantics, strict implication, contingent identity, intensional objects, counterpart theory, the logic of actuality, and deontic and / or epistemic logic. The emphasis will be more on technical methods and results than philosophical applications. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/24-244-modal-logic-spring-2015 Spring 2015 Yablo, Stephen 2015-12-02T20:26:58+05:00 24.244 en-US W. V. Quine's modal logic Lewis's S1 and S2 propositional modal logic completeness frames and models tense logic combining modality and tense epistemic logic quantified modal logic MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This seminar is made possible through a collaboration between Radius and the Philosophy section of MIT. This course provides an opportunity to explore a wide range of ethical issues through guided discussions that are geared to equip students for ongoing reflection and action. Lectures and discussions with guest faculty, as well as attendance at on-and off-campus events, expose students to ethical problems and resources for addressing them. The course also encourages students to work collaboratively as they clarify their personal and vocational principles.Topics vary each term and reflect the interests of those enrolled. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/24-191-ethics-in-your-life-being-thinking-doing-or-not-spring-2015 Spring 2015 Haslanger, Sally Weinmann, Patricia-Maria Kenessey, Brendan de 2015-11-06T20:37:17+05:00 24.191 en-US ethics global poor homeless disenfranchised death penalty prison Examined Life famine affluence morality racial profiling justice system criminal punishment deterrence military spending federal spending farming gaming MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm Propositions are everywhere in the philosophy of mind. Believing, hoping, and intending (for example) are said to be "propositional attitudes", mental states that involve relations to propositions. The seminar will examine issues at the heart of the dispute between the proposition-aficionados and their detractors. The course will be divided into five parts, covering: (1) de se thought; (2) propositions; (3) knowing how; (4) perceptual content; (5) the knowledge argument. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/24-500-topics-in-philosophy-of-mind-mental-content-spring-2015 Spring 2015 Byrne, Alex Rayo, Agustín 2015-10-13T18:06:59+05:00 24.500 en-US philosophy mental state propositions propositional attitudes de se thought knowing how perceptual content knowledge argument perception nonconceptual content indexical philosophy of mind logic MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course is a study of basic metaphysical issues concerning existence, the mind-body problem, personal identity, and causation plus its implications for freedom. This class features classical as well as contemporary readings and it provides practice in written and oral communication. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/24-221-metaphysics-spring-2015 Spring 2015 Khoo, Justin 2015-08-19T15:02:40+05:00 24.221 en-US free will mind-body problem personal identity causation Modal Metaphysics Libertarianism Time travel Choice Freedom existence MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm