Philosophy 258me - Topics in the Philosophy of Language-Metaphor

T-Language-Metaphor

Fall
2024
01
4.00
Malcolm Keating

TU TH 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM

Smith College
PHI-258me-01-202501
Hatfield 104
mkeating@smith.edu
Metaphors are everywhere: from pop music to Shakespeare's sonnets, ordinary idioms to religious texts. But what makes a linguistic utterance count as a metaphor? What do metaphors do and how do they do it? Do they have meanings, what could those be and how can one know them? This course considers theories of metaphor, drawing on multiple philosophical traditions, such as Indian, Chinese and the broadly Anglo-European analytic tradition. Prerequisite: One PHI course.
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