Language, Thought, and Reality: Themes in the Analytic Tradition

What is the nature of the relationship between the mind and the external world? What is the relation between thought and language? And how does language enable us to capture, carve up, organize or impose order upon the world around us? These questions reflect themes that have been central to analytic philosophy since its inception near the turn of the 20th century. In this course, we will examine these questions, as well as their relevance for philosophy, by exploring and evaluating various answers and approaches advanced by prominent figures in the analytic tradition.