Introduction to Philosophy: Language & Paradox

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course explores some paradoxes that arise in natural language (e.g., liar paradox, truth-teller paradox, Curry paradox, validity paradox, property paradox, and more). Alfred Tarski suggested that some paradoxes arise in natural languages because of the "universality" of such languages. What the universality of natural language amounts to is a topic that we'll discuss. Some familiarity with formal logic and formal languages will be useful though not presupposed from the start.