I'd like to cover a little Philosophy of Language in the Intro to Philosophy through Film class I'll be teaching this winter (in December and January). Any movies you can think of that I can (appropriately) use with that bit of the course?
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p.s. Oh, good!
i don't know what all 'appropriate' encompasses, but 'kiss kiss, bang bang' has some good phil. language stuff in it (e.g. ambiguity).
luvell
Posted by: luvell | November 08, 2006 at 02:15 PM
Pootie Tang
Posted by: Sam | November 16, 2006 at 12:10 PM
As you know, there are lots of movies produced from Continental philosophy perspective which have also relations to language.
But as for analytic philosophy I hope this helps: http://www.film-philosophy.com/vol2-1998/n36guttenplan
Posted by: Hoss Parwas | November 18, 2006 at 01:55 PM
I showed "the battle of algiers" in a war ethics class once. It spurred some good discussion about what (if anything) the conditions are under which terrorism is morally ok. Same with torture. It also got students to briefly see things from a terrorist's point of view, which was helpful. The movie is historically accurate too, supposedly.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058946/
Posted by: Dennis | November 20, 2006 at 01:52 PM