Università Roma Tre

The Laboratory in Philosophy of Language is part of the program in Philosophical Sciences (MA level) and is included among the “Other training activities”. The laboratory proposes an introduction to the contemporary debate about the relation between music and language through the lecture and the comment of texts from different traditions. The aim will be to point out some problematic issues (linguistic and musical comprehension; expressivity and expression; the origin of language and of the musical activity) traceable in musicological literature, analitical aesthetic, neuro science, paleoanthropological studies and in the thought of continental tradition. Upon completion of the course students are expected to acquire the following skills: 1) advanced critical thinking and its relation to the relevant issues; 2) advanced language and argumentation skills required to the issues discussed in the course; 3) capacity to read and analyse philosophical sources and the relevant critical debate.