Professor Ngo Bao Chau participates in a presentation on philosophy in Hanoi

The Faculty of Philosophy, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi has just announced the opening of a free course on philosophy, with Professor Ngo Bao Chau participating in the presentation of this course.

Professor Ngo Bao Chau and Dr. Trinh Huu Tue

The course is entitled "Foundations of Analytical Philosophy: Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein", taught by Dr. Trinh Huu Tue. The course consists of 12 sessions, on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays every week, from August 5 to 28. The learning format is direct, at the lecture hall of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Social Sciences and Humanities. The class is limited to 20 seats.

The course is intended for lecturers, researchers, graduate students, postgraduate students, and interested people, not excluding students at other levels.

The content of the course is to read, analyze, and discuss a number of publications and scientific works by philosophers who laid the foundation, developed, and applied the analytic school of philosophy, one of the dominant schools of contemporary academic philosophy, especially in English-speaking countries: Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

The organizers announced: "Class discussions, in principle, do not require in-depth knowledge of a particular field. The required reading materials will be uploaded to the class moodle page. Students are expected to try to read these materials to the best of their ability and conditions. The concepts and presuppositions necessary to understand the key content will be explained in class."

The course will feature Professor Ngo Bao Chau as a guest speaker in the final part of the segment on Frege, where the focus of discussion will be on the connection between Frege's results and Giuseppe Peano's axioms on natural numbers, as well as the place of these axioms, especially the axiom of induction, in arithmetic.

Dr. Trinh Huu Tue received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his Habilitation from Humboldt University. His research focuses on the syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and early philosophy of Wittgenstein. His publications include Synthese, Linguistics & Philosophy, Natural Language Semantics, and Journal of Pragmatics.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/gs-ngo-bao-chau-tham-gia-thuyet-trinh-ve-triet-hoc-tai-ha-noi-185240718153533664.htm