This was super interesting! Everything in philosophy nowadays seems to collapse into language so I thought it would be worth while to take the subject. It was very different to the undergrad language and mind courses and had a heavy focus on epistemology and contemporary epistemology. We started with basics in set theory and modal logic for some background, and then touched on a bunch of various topics, with the first half of the class being dedicated to language and the second to mind. We talked about vagueness, conditionals, mental representation, the preface paradox, credence, belief, desire and certainty. It was very technical. The lecturer sold it is as ‘the hardest philosophy class you’ll take’ – I don’t think it was quite as perplexing as some moments in the continental courses, but it was still pretty hard. The quality of teaching was very good and at the start of every class the lecturer would ask people what they want help understanding with the reading and what types of opinions they had for discussion on the material. I do think it would have been nice to break off into groups every once and a while to get know everyone better.

Anonymous, Semester 2, 2025