PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE

The course aims to explore the debate concerning the boundaries between mind and world, specifically with regard to the expansion of the mind through the artifacts it creates and which extend its functions. Language is considered as a special case of this process.

S. Nannini, L’anima e il corpo. Un’introduzione storica alla filosofia della mente, Laterza.
M. Di Francesco, G. Piredda, La mente estesa, Mondadori.
A. Clark, Dare corpo alla mente, McGraw-Hill.