Philosophy, simply stated, is the experience of asking such grand questions about life, about what we know, about what we ought to do or believe in. It is the process of getting to the bottom of things, asking those basic questions about ideas that, most of the time, we simply take for granted, never think of questioning, and probably never put into words. We assume, for example, that some acts are right and some are wrong. Why? We know that it is wrong to take a human life. Why is this? Is it always so? What about in wartime? What about before birth? What about the life of a person who is hopelessly sick and in great pain? What if the world were so overcrowded that millions would die in one way if others did not die in another?
Furthermore, responding to these difficult questions, the answers will reveal a network of beliefs and doctrines that may never have articulated before we first found ourselves arguing about them. Not surprisingly, the first time an individual tries to argue about questions he or she has never before discussed, the result may be awkward, clumsy, and frustrating. That is the point behind philosophical questions in general: to teach us how to think about, articulate, and argue for the things we believe in, and to clarify these beliefs for ourselves and present them in a clear and convincing manner to other people, who may or may not agree with us. Very often, therefore, philosophy proceeds through disagreement, as when two philosophers or philosophy students argue with one another. Sometimes the dispute seems trivial or just a matter of semantics.
However, because what we are searching for a basic knowledge especially in accordance with philosophy of language, with that in mind, let’s begin the discussion with series of somewhat simple but straightforward questions, each of which is designed to think about the questions and express opinions by elaborating what the philosopher have achieved.
Below there are nine questions that the writer will try to elaborate each of them by providing the answer in the next section.
- What is Philosophy of Science?
- What is Philosophy of Language?
- What is Analytic Philosophy of Language?
- What is Philosophy?
- What is Ordinary Philosophy of Language?
- What are the major topics in Philosophy of Language?
- In what ways is Philosophy of Language different from Linguistic Philosophy, Philosophy of Linguistic, and Language Philosophy?
- Who are considered philosophers of language; and what are their major concerns or ideas?
- In what ways will your knowledge on Philosophy of Language contribute to your professional competence as a teacher and/or as a linguist?
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