Philosophy of Language and Communication

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

The course deals with the theme of the origin of language. Starting from the comparison between human language and animal communication, two theoretical models will be presented: on the one hand, the model that maintains that human language is in continuity with animal communication systems (in particular, with the communication of monkeys); on the other hand, the theoretical hypothesis that maintains that between human language and animal communication there is an incurable fracture. The goal is to present arguments in favor of the continuous hypothesis through the reference to the idea that language has a gestural origin.