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Arrival
Paramount
Philosophy of Language, Time & Grief

Language & Time: The Ethics of Understanding

Arrival uses first contact to ask what language does to thought and what we owe each other across radical difference. Use it to teach linguistics, philosophy of time, and the ethics of hard conversations.

Advanced

Modules

Module 1

Linguistic Relativity

Anchor scene

The written language

In this module

  • Sapir-Whorf, updated
  • Evidence and limits
  • Language in AI

Course outcomes

  • Discuss linguistic relativity carefully
  • Explore philosophy of time and choice
  • Apply framing to communication under uncertainty
  • Reflect on grief, foreknowledge, and love