BA Philosophy

Students graduating with a major in Linguistics & Philosophy will be able to demonstrate: Some mastery of the history and development of analytic philosophy and the concepts of truth, reference, objectivity, and meaning as they have figured in philosophy in the last century or so. An understanding of fundamental concepts in the philosophy of language and logic. Foundational knowledge in the core areas of linguistic theory, including phonetics, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, with additional emphasis on one of the latter three subfields, and an understanding of the fundamental questions that drive modern linguistic research in these subfields.