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U N D E R G R A D U A T E S T U D I E S

C O U R S E D E S C R I P T I O N S

1st Year / Semester A

Course title Epistemology and Metaphysics: Modern Period I

Code No 1001

Category Required course

Year of Studies

/ Semester 1st year / Semester A

ECTS 5

Instructors K. Goudeli, A. Michalakis, M. Mouzala.

Objectives

By the end of the course the students should be familiar with the following topics and concepts:

Innovations in metaphysics and epistemology of the modern period; the problem of method in the approach to knowledge; the notion of reflective subjectivity;

fundamental aspects of rationalism and empiricism, and the relations and differences

between them; the concepts of Reason, Ideas, innate ideas, impressions, introspection and certainty; the modern period’s reflection on the relations between mind and

body; the concepts of dualism and monism, of foundations for knowledge, and

skepticism.

Skills Acquaintance with the study of original philosophical texts, study of secondary sources, ability to organize philosophical concepts thematically and compare them.

Prerequisites None

Course

description

The course deals with basic philosophical questions which arose in the early Modern

period in the context of fundamental changes brought about by the Scientific Revolution and the concomitant reversal of relations between Reason and Faith. It

focuses on epistemological questions with regard to the claims of certainty in

knowledge, the rise of reflective subjectivity, the problem of method and the sources

of knowledge (innate ideas vs. sense perception), mind-body relations and the notions of truth and illusion through investigation of the 17th century’s main philosophical

traditions, rationalism and empiricism.

Course

readings

Passages from Descartes, Hume and Locke (Meditations on First Philosophy, Discourse on Method, Essay on Human Understanding) and abstracts from the secondary

bibliography including commentaries and texts on the history of philosophy

(Cottingham, Woolhouse, Alesio, Kenny).

Teaching &

learning

methods

Lectures. Study and analysis of passages from fundamental texts by Descartes, Locke and Hume. E-class.

Requirements &

Exams

Final written examination.

During the course groups of students have to prepare short presentations on certain

topic or questions.

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Course title Modern Political Philosophy

Code No 1002


Year of Studies / Semester 1st year / Semester A

ECTS 5

Instructor Andreas Michalakis

Objectives

On completion of this course, students should be able to:

• understand the main issues that modern political philosophy

examines

• distinguish between different trends and traditions of modern political philosophy

• apply basic philosophical concepts and understand their contemporary relevance

• critically evaluate different and conflicting interpretations of

modern political philosophy

Skills

On completion of this course, students should be able to:

• successfully study the main texts of modern political philosophy

• understand its technical terms

• reconstruct and evaluate arguments

Prerequisites None

Course description

The course introduces students to some important problems of

modern political philosophy. It examines the social contract

theories presented by Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau. We will focus especially on the basic concepts (human nature, natural law, private

property, social contract, general will, state-civil society etc) and the

normative principles of modern political thought (freedom, equality, social order, democracy etc) The principal texts are Hobbes’

Leviathan, Locke’s Second Treatise on Civil Government and

Rousseau’s The Social Contract.

Course readings

Basic Texts

Thomas Hobbes, Λεβιάθαν, Ι-ΙΙ, Γνώση, Αθήνα, 1989.

John Locke, Δεύτερη Πραγματεία Περί Κυβερνήσεως, Γνώση, Αθήνα, 1990.

Jean – Jacques Rousseau, Το Κοινωνικό Συμβόλαιο, Πόλις, Αθήνα, 2004.

Jean – Jacques Rousseau, Πραγματεία Περί της Καταγωγής και των Θεμελίων της Ανισότητας Ανάμεσα στους Ανθρώπους, Σύγχρονη

Εποχή, Αθήνα, 1992.

Αγγελίδης, Ε. και Α. Γκιούρας, Θεωρίες του Κράτους και της Πολιτικής (Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel), Σαββάλας, Αθήνα,

2005.

Bibliography

Κιτρομηλίδης, Πασχάλης, Νεότερη Πολιτική Θεωρία, Σάκκουλας Αθήνα, 1996.

Πατέλλη, Ιόλη, Η Φιλοσοφία του Hobbes, Ίδρυμα Σάκη Καράγιωργα, Αθήνα, 1996.

Στυλιανού, Άρης, Θεωρίες του Κοινωνικού Συμβολαίου, Πόλις, Αθήνα, 2006.

Ψυχοπαίδης Κοσμάς, Κανόνες και Αντινομίες στην Πολιτική, Πόλις, Αθήνα, 2000.

Teaching & learning methods Lectures; study and analysis of passages from key texts. E –class.

Requirements & Exams Short essays on specific topics during the semester

Final written examination

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Course title Logic

Code No 1003


Year of Studies / Semester 1st year/ Semester A

ECTS 15 (Tutorial included)

Instructor Demetra Christopoulou

Objectives

• To discern logically valid from invalid arguments by means

of formal methods in Propositional Logic

• To recognize formulas which are tautologies, contradictions or contingencies (in Propositional Logic)

• Τo recognize truth-functionally equivalent formulas as well

as truth-functionally contradictory formulas

• To find out whether a set of propositions is consistent (formulated in Propositional or 1st order Predicate Logic)

• To test logical validity after formulating arguments in Predicate logic

• To develop critical thinking by making practice in

argumentation and recognize the logical fallacies

Skills

• Calculating truth tables and tree diagrams

• Translating statements into logical schemata (in Propositional and Predicate Logic)

• Making use of logical notation and formal methods in order

to detect logical validity of argumentation forms

(: up to 4 formal methods by making use of truth tables and

tree-diagrams)

Prerequisites None

Course description

This course focuses on arguments, particularly the notion of logical validity. It presents the characteristics of critical

thinking and considers several argumentation forms. Students practice avoiding logical fallacies. Logical validity is

distinguished from persuasiveness; use is made of formal

logical methods. An introduction is offered to the syntax and semantics of Propositional Logic as well as 1st order Predicate

Logic. The concepts of tautology, contradiction and contingency

are presented, as well as truth-functional equivalence and consistency in Propositional Logic. The course applies up to 4

formal methods (by means of truth tables and tree diagrams) in

order to find out whether certain argumentation forms are

logically valid. Concerning 1st order Predicate Logic, it sheds light on the semantic roles of singular terms and predicates and

the relations between them, the use of quantifiers, and bound

variables. The syntax and semantics of 1st order Predicate Logic are studied. Tree diagrams will be used to determine

whether a set of propositions formulated in this formal

language is consistent. Formal methods are also applied to test logical validity and avoid fallacies.

Course readings

Πορτίδης Δ., Ψύλλος Σ., Αναπολιτάνος Δ. (2007), Λογική: η δομή του επιχειρήματος, Νεφέλη, Αθήνα

Restall, G. (2006), Logic (an introduction), London & N. York,

Routledge

Tracy Bowell & Gary Kemp (2010) Critical thinking, London &

N. York, , Routledge

Teaching & learning methods Lectures and Practice

Requirements & Exams Written examination and tests

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Course Title Logic Tutorial

Code No 1003.P

Category Required Tutorial

Year of Studies /

Semester 1st year / Semester A

Instructor Areti Spagadorou

Objectives

The Logic Tutorial focuses on weekly elaboration of basic concepts,

properties and definitions of propositional and predicate logic, through exercises and problem solving. By the end of the tutorial students are

expected to be able to:

• Acquire a deeper understanding of the meaning and function of basic

concepts of propositional and predicate logic such as: argument, validity, consistency, predicate, syntax, semantics.

• Recognize and examine basic properties and relations in formulas.

• Test the truth-functional and logical validity of arguments by using formal methods.

• Test the truth-functional and logical consistency of sets of formulas

using formal methods.

Skills

Through the Logic Tutorial students are expected to develop the competence and ability to:

• Compare the logical forms of arguments concerning validity.

• Convert sentences of natural language into the formal languages of propositional and predicate Logic.

• Construct truth tables and tree diagrams.

• Determine basic properties and relations in formulas using truth

tables and tree diagrams.

• Check the validity of an argument and the consistency of a set of formulas in propositional logic using the above methods, and in

predicate logic using tree diagrams.

• Make use of the concepts of completeness, soundness, satisfiability

and truth in problem solving and in response to exercises.

• Interpret formulas of first order logic.

Prerequisites None

Course description

The tutorial is structured into two sections: (a) Propositional logic and (b) Predicate logic: a) argument, deduction-induction, natural language and

propositional language, logical forms, logical fallacies, validity and soundness, syntax and formalisation into propositional logic, semantics

and truth functionality, truth tables and tree diagrams, properties and

relations in formulas, consistency and validity; (b) predicates, quantifiers, variables, singular terms, formalization into first order logic, truth

diagrams, logical validity and logical consistency, semantics and

interpretation, logical truth.

Course readings

Δ. Πορτίδης - Σ. Ψύλλος - Δ. Αναπολιτάνος, Λογική. Η δομή του επιχειρήματος. Αθήνα: Νεφέλη 2007.

D. Barker - Plummer, Language, Proof and Logic. CSLI Publications 2011.

Teaching & learning

methods

Brief lecture, work in groups, problem solving, sets of exercises. Eclass, supplementary material.

Requirements & Exams Weekly written exercises (12).

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1st Year / Semester B Course title Plato

Code No 1004


Year of Studies /

Semester 1st year/ Semester B

ECTS 5

Instructor Melina G . Mouzala

Objectives

• To understand the content and the importance of the concept of

Forms in Plato’s work

• To understand the metaphysical-ontological status and the cognitive

value of Plato’s Forms

Skills • Careful study of philosophical texts

• Development of critical thinking skills

Prerequisites None

Course description

This course offers a reading and analysis of the most important Platonic

passages that shed light on the basic tenets of the Platonic theory of Ideas. We examine the most important intellectual and philosophical influences

to which Plato has been exposed and we trace the seeds of the theory of

Forms in some of the Socratic dialogues. Furthermore, we seek to interpret the fundamental principles of Plato’s ontology, epistemology and

metaphysics, as they are illustrated in the middle period dialogues.

Course readings Meno, Symposium, Phaedo, Republic, Phaedrus

Teaching & learning

methods Close reading and systematic analysis of philosophical texts

Requirements & Exams Final written examination

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Course title Ancient Greek moral and political philosophy

Code No 1005


Year of Studies / Semester 1st year / Semester B

ECTS 5

Instructor Christos Terezis

Objectives

After the completion of the course the student will be able to:

• categorize texts and tendencies of ancient Greek practical philosophy

• identify the stages of the evolution of thinking within ancient

philosophy

• have an overall view of the basic questions and topics examined in ancient Greek philosophy

• implement concepts formulated by the ancient philosophical tradition

Skills After the completion of the course the student will be able to:

• study ancient philosophical texts

Prerequisites None

Course description

The evolution of ancient Greek political and moral philosophy from the Presocratics to the Stoics, with special emphasis on the

theories of Plato and Aristotle

Course readings

Κ. Δεσποτόπουλος, Πολιτική φιλοσοφία του Πλάτωνος,

Παπαζήσης, Αθήνα, 1980

Gr. Vlastos, Πλατωνικές Μελέτες, μτφρ. Ι. Αρζόγλου, ΜΙΕΤ, Αθήνα, 1994

W. Kullmann, Η πολιτική σκέψη του Αριστοτέλη, μτφρ. Α.

Ρεγκάκου, ΜΙΕΤ, Αθήνα, 1996

A. A. Long, Η ελληνιστική φιλοσοφία, μτφρ. Στ. Δημόπουλου – Μ.

Δραγώνα-Μονάχου, ΜΙΕΤ, Αθήνα, 1987

Teaching & learning methods Lecturing with the use of slides, photocopies and Powerpoint

Requirements & Exams Final written or oral examination

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Course title Αnalytic Philosophy I : Philosophy of Science

Code No 1006


Year of Studies / Semester 1st Year / Semester B

ECTS 5


Objectives Acquaintance with the main concepts and problems that philosophy

of science deals with.

Skills

Acquisition of the ability to recognize the characteristics of

scientific knowledge, the concepts and methods by which science works and the ways scientific theories evolve

Prerequisites None

Course description

This course explores what science is and whether it purports to offer a literally true picture of the world. It sheds light on the

methodology of science that distinguishes it from pseudo-science. It

explains how deduction and induction work, what testing of

scientific hypotheses is, how models of explanation are constituted. It presents the main contemporary accounts of the science

demarcation problem and the ways scientific theories evolve

(especially according to : empiricism, Popper’s falsification theory, Kuhn’s account of scientific revolutions)

Course readings

Chalmers, A. (1994) Τι είναι αυτό που το λένε επιστήμη? (μετάφρ.) Πανεπιστημιακές Εκδόσεις Κρήτης

Brown, H. (1995) Αντίληψη, θεωρία και δέσμευση, (μετάφρ.) Πανεπιστημιακές εκδόσεις Κρήτης

Duhem, P. (2007) Σώζειν τα Φαινόμενα (μετάφρ.) Νεφέλη

Salmon, M., et al (1998), Εισαγωγή στη Φιλοσοφία της Επιστήμης

(μεταφρ.), Πανεπιστημιακές Εκδόσεις Κρήτης

(chapters from the above books)

Teaching & learning methods Lectures & material in e-class (texts)

Requirements & Exams Final written examination.

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2nd Year / Semester C

Course title Aristotle

Code No 2001


Year of Studies / Semester 2nd year – Semester C

ECTS 5

Instructor Stasinos Stavrianeas

Objectives

• General knowledge of the basic questions of Aristotelian

epistemology and metaphysics and of their historical origins.

• Understaning the basic theses proposed by Aristotle and his predecessors on the above questions.

• Understanding of the terminology introduced or used in the Aristotelian corpus.

• Ability to evaluate arguments and philosophical tenets

regarding the basic ontological and epistemological problems treated in ancient Greek philosophy.

Skills

By completing this course students will be able to:

• Study Aristotelian texts, use the basic sources and the necessary tools for the study of these texts.

• Analyse passages from the Aristotelian corpus, identifying their main theses and arguments.

• Identify the basic philosophical terms and distinctions

introduced to the terminology of metaphysics and epistemology by Aristotle (universal-particular, substance-

accident, the four causes, teleology-mechanism, induction-

deduction, etc) and use them effectively in their arguments.

• Identify Aristotelian scientific syllogisms and construct arguments in syllogistic form.

Prerequisites Basic knowledge of Platonic metaphysics and epistemology

Course description

We shall study Aristotle’s basic ontological and epistemological theses by reading and analysing passages and topics from the

following works:

• Categories: the distinctions between subject and predicate,

universal and particular, substance and accident, the division of the categories of being, the concepts of genus, species,

differentia and defintions.

• Physics: the Aristotelian model for analysing and explaining change.

• Posterior Analytics: necessary and sufficient conditions for knowledge; the method through which we can acquire

knowledge of the first principles and the theorems of scientific

knowledge (episteme).

• Metaphysics: the definition of first philosophy as knowledge of

being qua being and its differentiation from other domains of knowledge.

Course readings

Primary sources (texts by Aristotle):

• Αριστοτέλους, Μετά τα Φυσικά Βιβλίο Α, μτφρ: Β. Κάλφας, Εκδόσεις Πόλις 2004.

• Αριστοτέλους, Φυσικά Βιβλίο Β, μτφρ:Β. Κάλφας,

Εκδόσεις Πόλις, Αθήνα, 1999.

• Αριστοτέλους, Κατηγορίες & Περί Ερμηνείας, μτφρ: Π. Καλλιγάς, Εκδόσεις Νήσος, Αθήνα 2012.

Secondary bibliography:

• Adler M., Ο Αριστοτέλης για όλους. Δύσκολος στοχασμός σε απλοποιημένη μορφή, μτφρ.: Π. Κοτζιά-Παντελή,

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Πρόλογος: Δ. Λυπουρλής, Παπαδήμας, Αθήνα, 1998.

• Düring I., Ο Αριστοτέλης: παρουσίαση και ερμηνεία της σκέψης του, μτφρ. Β. Κοτζιά, ΜΙΕΤ, Αθήνα, 1991/94.

• Pellegrin, P. & Crubellier, Ο Αριστοτέλης και οι Επιστήμες, μτφρ. : Ε. Περδικούρη, Εστία, Αθήνα 2011.

• Rapp Chrisoff, Εισαγωγή στον Αριστοτέλη μτφρ. Π. Γκολίτσης, Εκδόσεις Οκτώ, Αθήνα 2013.

• Ross W., Αριστοτέλης, μτφρ.: Μ. Μήτσου, Μ.Ι.Ε.Τ., Αθήνα,

1991.

Teaching & learning methods Lectures with the use of powerpoint presentations, handouts, and

additional material available on the course webpage (eclass).

Requirements & Exams Two written examinations in weeks 8 and 13, and final end of term examination (minimum 50% of the overall result)

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Course title

Reading workshop I

Αncient Philosophy A:

Aristotle On the Parts of Animals

Code No 2003.1

Category Required

Year of Studies / Semester 2nd year/ Semester C

ECTS 10

Instructor Stasinos Savrianeas

Objectives

1. Knowledge of the principles of Aristotelian natural science and

zoology

2. Understanding of the different types of causal explanation and their role in science

3. Understanding of Aristotelian teleoology and its compatibility with mechanistic explanations

4. Understanding of the way principles are applied to a particular domain of research.

Skills

Students will acquire the ability to:

• Study philosophical texts and understand and represent in a formal way the arguments included in them.

• Read primary sources with the use of commentaries, indexes,

dictionaries and web-based resources.

Prerequisites None

Course description

We shall study the principles and models of explanation of Aristotle’s

natural science and zoology as well as their application to his own biological investigations and explanations.

Course readings Αριστοτέλους, Περί Ζώων Μορίων, μετ. & σχόλια Σ. Σταυριανέας, Αθήνα: Νήσος (υπό έκδοση).

Teaching & learning methods Presentation of short sections of the text, group discussions, short essays and weekly homework exercises

Requirements & Exams Participation in the class, and skill assesment tests

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Course title

Reading workshop I

Ancient Philosophy B:

Plato’s Socratic Dialogues: Euthyphro-Charmides

Code No 2003.2


Year of Studies / Semester 2nd Year/ Semester C

ECTS 10


Objectives

To help students

• to be acquainted with the Socratic-Platonic dialectic and the methods for understanding it

• to learn how to read and interpret ancient Greek philosophical texts.

Skills

• Careful study of philosophical texts

• Critical and systematic analysis of philosophical claims, issues and ideas

Prerequisites None

Course description

This course offers a close reading of Plato’s Charmides. We will examine the way in which the Socratic Dialectic is illustrated by

Plato in this dialogue, as well as its special topic, namely, the way

temperance is connected to self-knowledge. Moreover, we will interpret the special meaning and content of the knowledge of

knowledge, or self-referential knowledge.

Course readings Plato’s Charmides

Teaching & learning methods Close reading and text analysis


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Course title

Reading workshop I

Ancient philosophy C:

Plato’s Republic book VI

Code No 2003.3


Year of Studies / Semester 2nd year / semester C

ECTS 10

Instructor Eleni Perdikouri

Objectives

In this course, students learn how to recognize the central positions held by Plato in a specific text; acquire the ability to detect and

reconstruct the arguments used in the text by Plato to establish the

views he endorses; and learn how to question the ways in which the text relates its key positions to one another as well as to the

fundamental intuitions of Platonic metaphysics and epistemology.

Skills

Upon completing this course, students will be able to study Platonic dialogues, reflect on the scope of the arguments used in a Platonic

text, and be able to compose short philosophical essays.

Prerequisites Introductory knowledge of Platonic metaphysics and epistemology

Course description Detailed reading of the 6th book of the Republic

Course readings

Julia Annas, An Introduction to Plato's Republic, OUP, 1981.

Nickolas Pappas, The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Plato and the Republic, Routledge 2003

Gerasimos Santas (ed.), The Blackwel Guide to Plato's Republic, Blackwell, 2006.

Teaching & learning methods This is a reading course which consists of word-to-word analysis of the text studied.

Requirements & Exams

Required participation of the students, presentation of excerpts of the text by small groups of students, mid-term papers, and skill

assesment test

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2nd Year / Semester D

Course title Kant

Code No 2004

Category Required

Year of Studies / Semester 2nd / Semester D

ECTS 5


Objectives

In this course, students acquire overall acquaintance with Kant's

theory concerning the “Copernican revolution”, the pure forms of intuition, the forms of judgement and the production of the a priori

categories of thought, some of the antinomies of pure reason, and

Kantian philosophical methodology.

The course also offers an overview of the sphere of pure reason, the

sphere of practical reason, and Kant's attempt to bridge these two areas in his Third Critique.

Skills

Upon completing the course students will be able to:

• distinguish between analytic, synthetic and a priori synthetic propositions

• distinguish between determining judgements and regulatory ideas

• recognize the function of transcendental concepts

Prerequisites Epistemology and Metaphysics: Modern Period I

Course description

In this course we will study the Introduction, Transcendental Aesthetic and Transcendental Analytic of the Critique of Pure Reason

as well as the third antinomy of the Transcendental Dialectic. We will also study some excerpts from the Aesthetics of the Critique of the

power of Judgement concerning the relation between imagination

and understanding.

Course readings Ernst Cassirer, Kant's life and thought, Yale University, 1981

Gilles Deleuze, La philosophie critique de Kant, Puf, 1963

Teaching & learning methods Lectures

Requirements & Exams Mid-term and final written examination

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Course Title Hermeneutics and Phenomenology

Code No Phil 2005


Year of Studies/Semester 2nd year / Semester D

ECTS 5

Instructor Ekaterini Kaleri

Objectives

In this course, students acquire:

a) historical knowledge concerning both the emergence of these two

philosophical trends out of philosophical shifts at the end of the 19th

century, and their impact on the development of contemporary

philosophy;

b) systematic philosophical knowledge of those two theories’ main

features (questions, concepts, and principles).

Central issues: (i) the historical nature of consciousness and language;

creativity and individuality of mind; understanding of other persons;

structural features of interpretation; (ii) structures of consciousness;

egocentric thought; intentionality; the reality of external objects.

Skills

By the end of the course it is expected that students will be able to:

- identify and categorize texts from both philosophical schools;

- understand and study texts in hermeneutics and phenomenology;

- employ the concepts and theses of those theories.

Prerequisites

Acquaintance with the subject-matter of metaphysical thinking;

awareness of basic preoccupations and concepts of ontology and

epistemology.

Course Readings

The historical overview concerns the following topics: - determination of contemporary philosophy in general as opposed to

both classical and post-kantian metaphysical thinking;

- correlations and discrepancies between hermeneutics and phenomenology on one hand, and Kant’ s critical method and kantian

epistemology of pure reason on the other;

- predecessors, main representatives, major works; - convergence of these two trends during the progress of contemporary

philosophy.

The systematic presentation concerns the following topics.

a) Hermeneutics: - Philosophical founding of the hermeneutic process; the profound

analysis of understanding; creativity and the historical nature of

language in Fr. Schleiermacher and the romantics. - Expansion of the principle of understanding over all kinds of

manifestations of (self)conscious existence; progress beyond Kant; the

project of the critique of historical reason in W. Dilthey. - The concept of effective history in Hans-Georg Gadamer.

b) Phenomenology:

- Introductory: the concept of the phenomenon in Fr. Brentano’s philosophical psychology.

- Phenomenology as systematic analysis of consciousness.

- The problem of egocentric thought.

- “Epoche” and “phenomenological reduction”. - Analysis of reference to the world; the intentionality of consciousness.

Suggested Bibliography

for further Reading

1. Β. Ντίλταϊ, «Προχώρημα πέρα απ’ τον Καντ», μετφρ. Αικ. Καλέρη,

Ινδικτος (15), 2001, σελ. 132-136

2. Ε. Χούσσερλ, Καρτεσιανοί Στοχασμοί, μετφρ. Π. Κόντος, Αθήνα, Ροές, 22002

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3. Χ.- Γκ. Γκάνταμερ, Το πρόβλημα της ιστορικής συνείδησης, μετφρ. Α.

Ζέρβας, Αθήνα, Ίνδικτος, 1998 4. Αικ. Καλέρη, «Η θεμελίωση της σύγχρονης ερμηνευτικής από τον

Σλάιερμάχερ, Ινδικτος (15) 2001, σελ. 113-131

5. R. Sokolowski, Εισαγωγή στην Φαινομενολογία, μετφρ. σχόλια: Π. Κόντος, Πάτρα 2003 (αγγλ. πρωτότ. 2000)

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Teaching and Learning

Methods

- Lectures

- Close reading of selected original texts - Comprehension tests and exercises (via e-class or in the class),

discussion of mistaken answers

- E-class

Requirements/Exams Final written examination

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Course title Analytic Philosophy II: Philosophy of Language

Code No 2006


Year of Studies / Semester 2nd year/ Semester D

ECTS 5

Instructor John Zeimbekis

Objectives

Acquisition of fundamental concepts of contemporary philosophy;

knowledge of key approaches to the problem of meaning;

acquaintance with problems dealt with by philosophy of language and their significance.

Skills

Acquisition of ability to study analytic texts more generally, and to grasp philosophical problems that require a grounding in

philosophy of language.

Prerequisites None

Course description

This introductory course to the philosophy of language presents the problem of referential meaning in relative detail (weeks 1-8) and

then gives an overview of the problem of sentence meaning (weeks 9-13). First, the theories of Frege, Russell, Quine, Kripke on the

reference of proper names and referring descriptions are explained.

Then three accounts of sentence meaning are presented: verificationism; the principle of compositionality (as applied by

Davidson and outlined by Lycan); the theory that the meanings of

sentences are logical propositions.

Course readings William Lycan, Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction, Routledge, 2008.

Teaching & learning methods

Lectures. Revisions. Materials (translated passages) will be

distributed or uploaded here:

https://eclass.upatras.gr/courses/PHIL1875


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Course title Philosophical topics: Knowledge and reality in Plato and

Aristotle

Code No 2007


Year of Studies /

Semester 2nd year/ Semester D

ECTS 15


Objectives

• The course offers a general but detailed overview of

Plato's and Aristotle's theory of knowledge.

• Students will learn to recognize in what way Plato’s approach to the problem of knowledge differs from

Aristotle's.

• Students will acquire the ability to justify the difference

between the two approaches by relating it to a difference between theories about reality.

Skills

Upon completing the course

• the students will be able to see the interconnections between the different positions each of the two

philosophers formulates in different texts, concerning the problem of knowledge;

• they will be able to understand the reasons why, and ways in which, the solutions the two philosophers

propose to the same problem are different, or even

opposed.

Prerequisites Introduction to Platonic and Aristotelian metaphysics and epistemology

Course description

The central theme of this course is the problem “What is knowledge?” and “What do we know?”. The object and conditions

of knowledge are examined. The first part of the course is

dedicated to Plato, the second to Aristotle. In the first part we study Meno's paradox, the distinction between intelligible and

sensible object and between intellection and perception in the

Phaedo, and finally the objects and the corresponding kinds of knowledge in the Republic's “divided line”. In the second part we

study Aristotle's theory of scientific knowledge in some passages

of the Posterior Analytics and the theory of actual knowledge in

the De Anima. A final lecture recapitulates the similarities and differences of the two approaches.

Course readings

Nicholas P. White, Plato on Knowledge and Reality, Hackett 1976

M. Crubellier-P. Pellegrin, Aristote. Le philosophe et les savoirs, Seuil, 2002

Teaching & learning

methods

The aim of this course is to introduce students to the fact that different philosophers may propose opposite, but at the same

time equally compelling solutions, to a crucial philosophical

problem. For that reason the course stresses the concern and acknowledgement these two philosophers share regarding the

problem of knowledge and its object, while showing their

different starting points. The course is required and is followed

by a tutorial course where the students, divided into small groups, undertake the discussion of relevant texts and the writing of short

essays.

Requirements & Exams Mid-term and end of term examination

Oral presentations and written essays

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Course Title Philosophical topics Tutorial

Code No 2007.P

Category Required Tutorial

Year of Studies /

Semester 2nd year / Semester D

Instructor Areti Spagadorou

Objectives

The tutorial focuses on the step-by-step development of students’ critical reading and writing skills, through group work on short and simple texts

of ancient Greek epistemology as well as contemporary analytic philosophy. On completion of this course students are expected to be able

to:

(a) select and make use of basic methodological tools aiming at the

analysis of philosophical texts, identify and clarify how concepts are

formed in a short text, formulate, reformulate and evaluate simple

arguments, work on distinctions, and construct hypotheses and theses;

(b) plan and organize the research work required to compose a

philosophy essay or assignment; know how to search, select, and use sources; know how to list primary and secondary sources; and be able to

meet technical and editing requirements (citations, proof reading,

bibliographies, and standard documentation formats).

Skills

Through the tutorial students are expected to develop the ability to:

• Practice critical reading and critical writing and combine their functions.

• Search for and identify conceptual distinctions in philosophical texts and formulate key questions.

• Work on clarifying basic problems.

• Use reasoning and evidence in order to develop a simple argument.

• Find and evaluate objections to a thesis.

• Define and organize objectives for a research project.

• Accomplish and evaluate the research needed for their essay.

• Paraphrase and summarise.

• Organize their assignment (outline, introduction, body, conclusion).

• Proofread their assignment.

• Avoid plagiarism.

• Quote, cite and make lists of references.

Prerequisites None. The tutorial is a prerequisite for students starting a dissertation.

Course description

The tutorial functions in two parallel sections: (a) in correspondence with the required course bearing the same title, critical reading of short

philosophical texts, reconstruction of arguments by using diagrams, elementary conceptual analysis, critical writing using research and

evidence; (b) practical application of theoretical principles for academic

research and writing.

Course readings

U. Eco, Πώς γίνεται μια διπλωματική εργασία. Αθήνα: Νήσος 1994.

K Howard.- J. Sharp, Η επιστημονική μελέτη. Αθήνα: Gutenberg 1994.

F. Cossuta, Η φιλοσοφία και πως τη διαβάζουμε. Αθήνα: Πατάκης 2002.

Τζ. Μπαγκίνι & Πήτερ Φοσλ, Τα εργαλεία του φιλοσόφου. Αθήνα: Εκδόσεις Καστανιώτη 2005.

G. Sartori, Σημασιολογία, Έννοιες, Συγκριτική Μέθοδος. Αθήνα: Παπαζήσης 2004.

J. Hospers, An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis. London: Routledge 1996.

Teaching & learning

methods

Brief lecture, work in groups, problem-solving, case studies, weekly exercises.

Supplementary material available on the course webpage (Eclass) and

wiki page: http://methodoi2.pbworks.com.

Requirements & Exams Weekly written exercises (8 - 10).

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3rd Year / Semester E Course title Hegel

Code No 3001


Year of Studies / Semester 3rd / Semester E

ECTS 5


Objectives

On completing this course, students should be able to:

• understand the main issues of Hegel’s practical philosophy

• comprehend the connection between Hegel’s practical philosophy and the tradition of modern moral and political

philosophy as well as its contemporary relevance

• critically evaluate different and conflicting interpretations of Hegel’s practical philosophy

Skills

Having completed this course, students will be able to

• study the main texts of Hegel’s practical philosophy

• understand the technical terms of Hegel’s philosophy


Prerequisites None

Course description

The course focuses on Hegel’s mature social and political philosophy. The text to be studied is Hegel’s Elements of the Philosophy of Right. We will examine some of the methodological issues raised by this text and study the structure of Hegel’s

argument. Then we will focus on the last part of the Elements of the Philosophy of Right where Hegel presents his theory about the rationality of modern society.

Course readings

Works by Hegel

Hegel, G.W.F., Η Επιστήμη της Λογικής, Αθήνα, μτφ. και εισ. Γ.

Τζαβάρας, Δωδώνη, Αθήνα,1991.

--- Η Φιλοσοφία του Πνεύματος, μτφ. και εισ. Γ. Τζαβάρας,

Δωδώνη, Αθήνα, 1993.

--- Η Φαινομενολογία του Νου, μτφ. Γ. Φαράκλας, Εστία,

Αθήνα, 2007.

--- Βασικές Κατευθύνσεις της Φιλοσοφίας του Δικαίου,

μτφ. Σ.

Γιακουμής, Δωδώνη, Αθήνα, 2004.

--- Ο Λόγος στην Ιστορία, μτφ. και εισ. Π. Θανασσάς, Αθήνα, 2006.

Αγγελίδης, Ε. και Α. Γκιούρας, Θεωρίες του Κράτους και της Πολιτικής (Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel), Σαββάλας, Αθήνα,

2005.

Περιέχει μετάφραση των παραγράφων 182-360 της Φιλοσοφίας

του Δικαίου (δηλ. το μεγαλύτερο τμήμα του 3ου μέρους:

Sittlichkeit).

Studies on Hegel

Lefebvre, J.-P. Macherey, P., O Έγελος και η Κοινωνία, Εστία, Αθήνα,

1998.

Loewith, K. Από τον Hegel στον Nietzsche, Ι-ΙΙ, Γνώση, Αθήνα,

1986.

Marcuse, H. Λόγος και Επανάσταση: Ο Χέγκελ και η Γένεση της Κοινωνικής

Θεωρίας, Ύψιλον, Αθήνα, 1985.

Ritter, J., Ο Έγελος για την Γαλλική Επανάσταση, Εστία, Αθήνα,

1999.

Singer, P., Χέγκελ, Πολύτροπον, Αθήνα, 2006.

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Φαράκλας, Γ., "Έννοια, Επανάσταση και Πραγματικότητα", στο

Θέση και Αλήθεια, Κριτική, Αθήνα, 1997.

Ψυχοπαίδης, Κ. Χέγκελ, Πόλις, 2003.


Lectures as well as reading and discussing passages from Hegel’s Philosophy of Right

Supplementary material available through e-class


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Course Title Reading workshop II

Modern Philosophy A

Code No Phil 3002.1


Year of Studies / semester 3d Year / semester E

ECTS 10


Objectives

• Exercise in the reading of philosophical texts: selected chapters of the first part of I. Kant’s Critique of Judgment will be studied.

• Acquaintance with the methods and practical tools for disclosure of the content of original texts in a philosophically and historically

correct way.

• Acquaintance with key concepts and the central topics of Kantian aesthetics.

Skills

In this course students are acquainted with the requirements for accurate, scholarly reading and interpretation of philosophical texts, so

they learn:

• to designate the meaning of terms and of the content of a text by

taking into account any historical, contextual and intertextual restrictions;

• to use special works of reference (general and special philosophical dictionaries, indexes etc.) as well as electronic tools for research;

• to draw up an interpretive commentary for the text they are

studying; finally,

• to extract philosophical knowledge from original sources and

• to justify their understanding of a text.

Prerequisites None

Course Readings Selections from the first part of I. Kant’s Critique of Judgment.


for further reading

Mainly: works relevant to the Critique of Judgment and research tools for studying; i.e., the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant dictionaries,

historical dictionaries of philosophical concepts, etc.


Methods

• Students must be prepared before classes

• Assignment of homework consisting of brief explanatory and interpretive tasks on special topics or philosophical terms found in

the text

• Preparation of an interpretive commentary of the text by the students during the term (e-class)

• collective study and interpretation of the text in the class

Requirements/Exams

Evidence of performance / student evaluation: 1. Students’ performance in written tests and exercises during term: 20%

2. Students’ individual contributions to commentary and materials for

understanding the text: 30% 3. Final examination testing students’ ability to understand (analyse and

interpret) an unknown text on the same topic and from the same

context, with free use of supporting material: 50%

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Course Title Reading workshop II

Modern Philosophy B

Code No 3002.2


Year of Studies, Semester 3rd year / Semester: E

ECTS 10

Instructor Pavlos Kontos

Objectives Students will understand the main concepts and arguments of Kant’s ethics

Skills

Students will be in a position:

• to point out and evaluate the main arguments of a

philosophical text

• to understand its structure and evaluate its coherence

• to produce philocophical discourse

Prerequisites None

Course Description

We will read and analyse the two first Sections of Kant’s

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. Particular attention will be paid to the following topics: 1. good will as the condition of any

good, 2. the notions of ‘inclination’, ‘respect’, and ‘duty’, 3.

hypothetical imperatives and the notion of happiness, 4. the

categorical imperative in its various versions. We will point to potential flaws in Kant’s arguments and propose alternative

interpretations.

Course Readings

1. Ι. Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (Greek

translation)

2. Ι. Kant, Critique of Practical Reason (Greek translation)

3. J. Timmermann, Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Cambridge UP, Cambridge 2007

4. Dossier with papers on specific issues


Methods Lectures, seminars, and e-class

Requirements – Exams Three (3) short writen assignments of ten (10) pages in total to be also presented in class. Late papers will not be accepted.

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Course title Reading workshop II

Μodern Philosophy C: Spinoza

Code No 3002.3

Category Required

Year of Studies / Semester 3rd year / Semester D

ECTS 10

Instructor Kyriaki Goudeli

Objectives

By the end of the course, students should be able to study and to fully understand the concepts, the method and the content of the selected

philosophical texts. This consists of the ability to attain a full comprehension of the philosophical meaning of the text in

comparison and/or juxtaposition with relevant secondary sources.

Skills Ability to study original philosophical texts and to integrate them

within the context of secondary commentary

Prerequisites None

Course description

The course constitutes a philosophical workshop. Its scope and purpose is to enable students in their capacity to fully comprehend

original philosophical texts, through the thorough study and commentary of selected texts.

Course readings Original texts: Spinoza: Ethics, Spinoza: Treatise on the emendation of the Intellect

Teaching & learning methods Collective study and commentary, preparation of short essays


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3rd Year / Semester F

Course title Analytic Philosophy ΙΙΙ: Theory of Knowledge

Code No 3004

Category Required

Year of Studies / Semester 3rd year/ semester 6

ECTS 5

Instructor Costas Pagondiotis

Objectives By the end of the course, students will be familiar with the nature,

sources, and limits of knowledge.

Skills

On completion of the course, students should be able to:

• Define key concepts of analytic epistemology,

• Defend a philosophical position on core themes of the course,

• Compare and contrast the major theories presented in the course and identify the main assumptions presupposed by these

theories, and

• Critically study texts on analytic epistemology

Prerequisites None

Course description

This course will discuss the main contemporary analytic approaches to the nature, sources and limits of knowledge. Some of the issues to

be examined are: the classical definition of knowledge and its problems, internalist and externalist theories of justification,

experience and reason as sources of knowledge, various skeptical

problems concerning the limits of knowledge, and the problem of

realism.

Course readings

• Russell, B (2001): The Problems of Philosophy, Oxford University

Press.

• Williams, M. (2002): Problems of Knowledge. Oxford University

Press.

Teaching & learning methods Lectures with the use of powerpoint presentations and handouts.

Reading and discussion of short passages. Use of eclass.


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4th Year / Semester G

Course Title Aesthetics

Code No Phil 4001

Category Required

Year of Studies, Semester 4th / Semester F

ECTS 5


Objectives

This course offers a historical introduction to the ontology and

epistemology of art and beauty. It focuses on the central topic of the development of the theory of mimesis in connection to the question of

truth.

By the end of the course:

• Students will have an overwiew of the most important theories of art and beauty from Plato to Kant as well as the related concepts of

mimesis and the (re)presentational features of art.

• They will be aware of specific conceptual tools for the ontological

and epistemological analysis of the phenomenon of art.

• They will be aware of the anthropological significance of art and of our experience of beauty; and

• they will be acquainted with ancient Greek sources concerning the theory of mimesis.

Skills

By the end of the course it is expected that students will be able

• to discern the field of beauty and art as an ontologically and epistemologically discrete field of our reality,

• to orient themselves conceptually in the sphere of the arts in a way that corresponds to the phenomenon’s distinct nature, and

• to avoid common reductions as well as appropriations;

• finally they will be able to comprehend the classical bibliography on the philosophy of art.

Prerequisites Basic systematic orientation in ontology and epistemology. Basic concepts of the philosophy of language

Course Description

• Introduction: meanings of the term “aesthetics”; philosophy vs.

theory of art; the nature of ontological, epistemological and ethical

questioning concerning art and beauty.

• Plato: analytic of beauty; concept of mimesis; mimesis and truth (from the dialogues Hippias major, Ion, Cratylus, Republic Ι’).

• Aristotle: theory of mimesis and the relation between mimesis and knowledge in Art of Poetry, Ι – IX.

• Plotinus: form, creativeness, reduction to the divine.

• Renaissance: (re)presenting the true empirical knowledge of the world.

• A. Baumgarten/G.F. Meyer: judging according to the senses;

(re)presenting the subjective ‘truth’ of sensory perception; the concept of aesthetic truth.

• D. Hume: theory of taste.

• I. Kant: analytic of beauty; aesthetic jugdement; the ontological and epistemological autonomy of the experience of art and beauty

(Critique of Jugdment: Analytic of Beauty)


for further reading

Plato’s Hippias major - Ion – Cratylus, 423a1-424a6 – Republic, book X 1-8 Aristotle’s Poetics, Ι 4-5, 1447α - ΙV 4-7, 1448b και V I 1, 1449b - IX 12

I. Kant, Critique of Jugdment, 1st book: Analytic of Beauty, § 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8 Monroe C. Beardsley, Ιστορία των Αισθητικών Θεωριών, μετφρ. Δ.

Κούρτοβικ/Π. Χριστοδουλίδη, Αθήνα 1989

Teaching and Learning Lectures, Reading and interpretation of original texts (excerpts).

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Methods Tests and exercises (via e-class or in class); clarification of erroneous

answers. E-class: https://eclass.upatras.gr/courses/PHIL1824/

Requirements /

Exams Final written examination

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Course title Ancient Greek Literature I

Code No 4002

Category Required

Year of Studies / Semester 4th year / semester F

ECTS 5

Instructor Kostas Valakas

Objectives

By the end of the course students must:

• be aware of grammatological matters of ancient Greek literature as well as of questions concerning the mythical plot, dramatic

structure and theatrical performance of ancient Greek tragedy

• know basic contemporary interpretations of Sophocles

Skills

By the end of the course students will be able:

• to study ancient Greek tragedies in the original and in translation

• to attend performances of ancient Greek tragedy as spectators

with awareness

Prerequisites None

Course description

This introduction to Sophocles refers to the context of classical

Greek literature, the conditions of ancient theatrical performances, the themes but also stylistic, ironical and theatrical techniques of

preserved plays, given that the tragic poet transforms myths of the

ancient Greek poetic tradition into a dramatic structure and

highlights ambiguous heroic figures interacting with the collective character of the chorus. The lectures focus on the analysis of scenes

from Oedipus the King and Trachinian Women (probably between

430 and 420 BC) in the original and in modern Greek translation. The discussion of both tragedies concerns the dramatic structure,

the themes of gods, family and city-state, of time and self-

consciousness, the symbolic rendering of the psychological depth of personages, the dynamic picture of man –and the world– as a unity

of opposites, as well as contemporary interpretative (or theatrical)

approaches..

Suggested reading

a) Studies:

1. Easterling, P. E. επιμ. 1997. Μτφρ. Λ. Ρόζη και Κ. Βαλάκας. 2007.

Οδηγός για την αρχαία ελληνική τραγωδία. Ηράκλειο.

2. Kott, J. 1970. Μτφρ. Α. Βερυκοκάκη-Αρτέμη. 1976. Θεοφαγία. Δοκίμια για την αρχαία τραγωδία. Αθήνα.

3. Taplin, O. 1978. Μτφρ. Β. Δ. Ασημομύτης. 1988. Η αρχαία ελληνική τραγωδία σε σκηνική παρουσίαση. Αθήνα.

4. Vernant, J.-P. και P. Vidal-Naquet. 1972-1986. Μτφρ. Σ.

Γεωργούδη και Α. Τάττη. 1988-1991. Μύθος και τραγωδία στην αρχαία Ελλάδα. 2 τόμοι. Αθήνα.

b) Texts, translations, commentaries:

1. Dawe, R. D., έκδ. σχολ. 1982. Μτφρ. Γ.Α. Χριστοδούλου. 1991. Σοφοκλέους Οιδίπους τύραννος. Αθήνα.

2. Easterling, P. E. έκδ. σχολ. 1982. Μτφρ. Π.Μ. Φαναράς, 1996. Σοφοκλέους Τραχίνιαι. Αθήνα.

3. Γρυπάρης, Ι., μτφρ. χ.χ. Οι τραγωδίες του Σοφοκλέους. 2 τόμοι. Αθήνα: Εστία.

Teaching & learning methods Lectures, e-class


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4th Year / Semester H

Course Title 19th and 20th Century Philosophy

Code No 4003

Category Required

Year of Studies, Semester 4th year/ Semester H

ECTS 5


Objectives

Students will:

• Have an overview of the development of the phenomenological tradition from Husserl to Merleau-Ponty

• Understand the basic phenomenogical terms

• Understand the critical differences between various tendencies within the phenomenological tradition

Skills

Students will be in a position to:

• Study phenomenological texts

• Use phenomenogical terms and patterns of thought to analyse philosophical questions

Prerequisites None

Course Description

The course will offer an introduction to the phenomenological tradition by means of analysing the issue of intersubjectivity.

How do we recognize Others? What are Others to us? What is the

status of the body –of our own body and that of Others– in our

recognizing other human beings? What is the status of language and expression? In which sense are we similar to and different from

Others?

We will attempt to point out the different answers to the preceding questions offered by Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty.

Course readings

• Ed. Husserl, Cartesian Medidations (Greek translation by the

instructor)

• Μ. Heidegger, Being and Time, § 26 (Greek translation by the instructor)

• M. Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception (passages

translated by the instructor)

Teaching and learning

Methods Lectures and e-class

Requirements

Exams Final written examination

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Electives

2nd Year / Semester C

Course Title Philosophical Schools in Antiquity

Code No 5001

Category Elective

Year of Studies, Semester 2nd year / Semester: C

Category Elective

ECTS 5


Objectives


• have an overall view of the ontological, epistemological and moral

questions posited by post-Platonic, post-Aristotelian and Hellenistic philosophy

• distinguish the doctrines of the Platonic, Aristotelian, Epicurean and Neoplatonic philosophers

• follow the evolution of ideas within the above-mentioned four

Schools

Skills


• study the classical texts of Greek philosophy from the 4th century

onwards

• identify the doctrines of modern and contemporary Philosophy, which reflect the influence of the above Schools

Prerequisites None

Course description

The course examines the philosophical theories of the last Hellenistic period. The first period is overwhelmed by the evolution of the

Platonic Academy and the Aristotelian Lycaeum. The Hellenistic

period is characterized by the domination of the so-called "dogmatic" Schools, i.e. the Epicureans and the Stoics and their

criticism by the Sceptics, both the Pyrrhonists and the Platonic

Academy when it turned towards Scepticism. Finally, reference is

made to the representatives of the Neoplatonic School. The course examines the epistemology, the physics and the metaphysics as well

as the moral thought of the above-mentioned Schools.

Course readings

1. Gr. Vlastos, Πλατωνικές Μελέτες, μτφρ. Ι. Αρζόγλου, ΜΙΕΤ,

Αθήνα, 1994

2. A. A. Long, Η ελληνιστική φιλοσοφία, μτφρ. Στ. Δημόπουλου

– Μ. Δραγώνα-Μονάχου, ΜΙΕΤ, Αθήνα, 1987

3. Ing. Düring, Ο Αριστοτέλης, τόμος Α΄, μτφρ. Π. Κοτζιά-

Παντελή, ΜΙΕΤ, Αθήνα, 1991

4. S. Rappe, Μελετώντας τον Νεοπλατωνισμό, μτφρ. Ν. Παπαδάκη –

Μ. Κόφφα, Ενάλιος, Αθήνα, 2005

Teaching & learning methods Teaching with the use of photocopies


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Course title Scientific Knowledge and Wisdom in Aristotle

Code No 5002

Category Elective

Year of Studies / Semester 2Ο / semester 3

ECTS 5


Objectives

• to understand the crucial distinction between scientific

knowledge and wisdom in Aristotle’s philosophy

• tο become familiar with the basic principles of Aristotle’s

Epistemology and Μetaphysics (First philosophy or Wisdom)

Skills • careful reading of philosophical texts

• development of critical thinking skills

Prerequisites None

Course description

Our aim in this course is to explore and interpret the crucial distinction

between scientific knowledge and wisdom in Aristotle’s philosophy. This distinction is very well illustrated in the sixth book of his Nicomachean Ethics and the first book of his Metaphysics. We shall examine the five

intellectual virtues in a comparative way, focusing on the nature of scientific knowledge and the difference between deduction and induction.

Moreover our purpose is to lay emphasis on the comparison between

the philosophic wisdom in the sixth book of the Nicomachean Ethics and

Wisdom or First Philosophy in the first book of the Metaphysics.

Course readings Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics Book VI and Aristotle’s Metaphysics Book I

Teaching & learning methods Close reading and systematic analysis of philosophical texts


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Course title Ancient Greek texts and language I

Code No 5003

Category Elective

Year of Studies / Semester 2nd year / Semester C

ECTS 5


Objectives

By the end of the course students must be aware of basic questions

concerning the original linguistic form, the translation and interpretation of texts of classical Athenian prose.

Skills By the end of the course students will be able to study and translate texts of classical Athenian prose at a satisfactory level.

Prerequisites None

Course description

The purpose of this optional course (alternative to “Ancient Greek texts and language II”) is to enhance the students’ skills in the linguistic

comprehension and the interpretation of ancient Greek texts. The

content of the course serves the purpose in question by offering detailed analysis of texts (or long passages) either of classical rhetoric or sophistic

prose or philosophy, in the original Ionic-Attic dialect. The analysis

centres: a) on vocabulary, with emphasis on significant value terms and historical data, b) on questions of translation and interpretation, c) on

grammatical and syntactic phenomena (examples for main questions of

ancient Greek syntax are given in detailed notes either in printed or electronic form). By analogy, the questions posed in the written

examination concern the translation, main tenses of verbs, syntax and

interpretation of aspects of a short passage already discussed during the

course as well as of another short passage from a prescribed text; both passages are in the ancient Greek original.

Suggested reading

a) Studies:

1. Adrados, F. R. 1999. Μτφρ. A. V. Lecumberri, επιμ. Γ. Αναστασίου και Χ. Χαραλαμπάκης. 2003. Ιστορία της ελληνικής γλώσσας από τις απαρχές ώς τις μέρες μας. Αθήνα.

2. Chantraine, P. 2η έκδ. 1961. Ιστορική μορφολογία της ελληνικής

γλώσσας. Μτφρ. Ν. Αγκαβανάκης. 1990. Αθήνα.

3. Οικονόμου, Μ.Χ. 3η έκδ. 1984. Γραμματική της αρχαίας ελληνικής.

Θεσσαλονίκη.

4. Schwyzer, E. κ. ά. 5η έκδ. 1975. Η σύνταξη της αρχαίας ελληνικής

γλώσσας. Μτφρ. Π. Χαιρόπουλος και Γ.Ε. Παπατσίμπας. 2002. Αθήνα.

5. Σταματάκος, Ι. 1949. Λεξικόν της αρχαίας ελληνικής γλώσσης. Ανατ.

2006. Αθήνα.

6. Σταματάκος, Ι. 1949-1950. Ιστορική γραμματική της αρχαίας ελληνικής

Α’ και Β΄. Ανατ. Σε 1 τόμο. 1999. Αθήνα.


Σκουτερόπουλος, Ν.Μ., κειμ., μτφρ., σχολ. 1998. Η αρχαία σοφιστική: Τα

σωζόμενα αποσπάσματα. Αθήνα.

Σκουτερόπουλος, Ν.Μ., κειμ., μτφρ., εισαγωγή Π. Καλλιγάς. 2002.

Πλάτωνος Ίων. Αθήνα.



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Course title Ancient Greek texts and language II

Code No 5004

Category Elective

Year of Studies / Semester 2nd year / Semester C

ECTS 5


Objectives

By the end of the course students must be aware of basic questions

concerning the original linguistic form, the translation and interpretation of texts of classical Athenian prose.

Skills By the end of the course students will be able to study and translate texts of classical Athenian prose at a satisfactory level.

Prerequisites None

Course description

The purpose of this optional course (alternative to “Ancient Greek texts and language I”) is to enhance the students’ skills in the linguistic

comprehension and the interpretation of ancient Greek texts. The content

of the course serves the purpose in question by offering detailed analysis of texts (or long passages) either of classical historiography or political

philosophy, in the original Ionic-Attic dialect. The analysis centres: a) on

vocabulary, with emphasis on significant value terms and historical data, b) on questions of translation and interpretation, c) on grammatical and

syntactic phenomena (examples for main questions of ancient Greek syntax

are given in detailed notes either in printed or electronic form). By analogy, the questions posed in the written examination concern the translation,

main tenses of verbs, syntax and interpretation of aspects of a short

passage already discussed during the course as well as of another short

passage from a prescribed text; both passages are in the ancient Greek original.

Suggested reading

a) Studies:

1. Adrados, F. R. 1999. Μτφρ. A. V. Lecumberri, επιμ. Γ. Αναστασίου και Χ. Χαραλαμπάκης. 2003. Ιστορία της ελληνικής γλώσσας από τις απαρχές ώς τις μέρες μας. Αθήνα.

2. Chantraine, P. 2η έκδ. 1961. Ιστορική μορφολογία της ελληνικής

γλώσσας. Μτφρ. Ν. Αγκαβανάκης. 1990. Αθήνα.

3. Οικονόμου, Μ.Χ. 3η έκδ. 1984. Γραμματική της αρχαίας ελληνικής.

Θεσσαλονίκη.

4. Schwyzer, E. κ. ά. 5η έκδ. 1975. Η σύνταξη της αρχαίας ελληνικής

γλώσσας. Μτφρ. Π. Χαιρόπουλος και Γ.Ε. Παπατσίμπας. 2002. Αθήνα.

5. Σταματάκος, Ι. 1949. Λεξικόν της αρχαίας ελληνικής γλώσσης. Ανατ.

2006. Αθήνα.

6. Σταματάκος, Ι. 1949-1950. Ιστορική γραμματική της αρχαίας ελληνικής

Α’ και Β΄. Ανατ. Σε 1 τόμο. 1999. Αθήνα.


1. Δεσποτόπουλος, Κ., κ.ά., κείμ., μτφρ., σχολ. Περί της πολιτικής. Επίλεκτα κείμενα της αρχαίας ελληνικής γραμματείας. 2004. Αθήνα.

2. Κακριδής, Ι.Θ., κείμ., σχολ. 1966. Ερμηνευτικά σχόλια στον Επιτάφιο του Θουκυδίδη. Αθήνα.

3. Λαμπρίδη, Έ., κείμ., μτφρ., σχολ. 1962 κ.ε. Θουκυδίδου Ιστορία. 4 τόμοι.

Αθήνα.



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3rd & 4th Year / Semsters E & G

Course Title Kant: Ethics

Code No 5006

Category Elective

Year of Studies, Semester 3rd year/ Semester: E and G

ECTS 5


Objectives

Students will:

• have an overview of the main issues raised in Kant’s ethics

• understand its main technical terms

• understand the main interpretive alternatives regarding the issue of false promises

Skilles


• study contemprary approaches to Kant’s ethics

• point out eventual obscurities and flaws in Kant’s arguments

Prerequisites None

Course Description

The course will offer an introduction to Kant’s ethics through an

analysis of the issue of false promises. In which cases and for which reasons are false promises ethically wrong? What does the categorical

imperative have to say about the sort of wrongness involved? Why

does Kant maintain that false promises destroy the realm of justice?

To answer questions of this sort, we will read the relevant passages in

the Grounwork of the Metaphysics of Morals as well as the brief text “For a supposed right to lie from philanthropy”.

Finally, we will touch on Nietzsche’s ethics as a reply to Kant’s claims,

and on his way of addressing the issue of lying and promising.

Course Readings

1. Ι. Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (Greek translation)

2. P. Kontos, Kant’s ethics of Promising, Hestia, Athens, 2005 (in Greek)

3. F. Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Ethics (Greek translation)

4. Dossier with papers on false promises

Teacing and learning


Requirements

Exams

Three (3) short writen assignments of 10 pages in total to be also presented in class. Late papers will not be accepted.

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Course title Analytic aesthetics

Code No 5008

Category Elective

Year of Studies / Semester 3rd – 4th year/ Semesters G & H

ECTS 5


Objectives Acquaintance with central topics and theories of contemporary

analytic aesthetics.

Skills

Acquisition of the ability to compare contemporary philosophical hypotheses to hypotheses from other areas (psychology, theories of

art and literature).

Prerequisites None

Course description

This course focuses on the topics of fictional emotions (weeks 1-8) and aesthetic judgments (9-13). Topic 1: Fictions cause emotions

directed towards what they represent (eg fictional characters). Yet

fictional representations (eg of Ulysses or Batman) have no referents. This raises a number of questions about the rationality of

our responses, the nature of emotions and the ontology of

inexistent objects. Topic 2: Why do we prefer to perceive certain shapes, series of sounds, etc, more than others, when there is no

concurrent practical reason? Are these preferences rooted in our

cognitive constitutions? If so, how can this ensure some form of normativity for aesthetic judgments?

Course readings

Course notes for analytic

aesthetics:https://eclass.upatras.gr/courses/PHIL1874

Walton K. (1978), ‘How Remote are Fictional Worlds from the Real

World?’, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 38.1.

Gendler T. & Kovakovich K. (2005), ‘Genuine Rational Fictional

Emotions’, in M.L. Kieran (ed.), Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art, Oxford, Blackwell, 2005.

Sibley F. (1959), ‘Aesthetic concepts’, Philosophical Review 68.

Teaching & learning methods Lectures. E-classes at


Requirements & Exams Written final examination.

Erasmus students: assignment on one of the above texts.

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Course title Time and eternity in Plotinus

Code No 5009

Category Elective

Year of Studies / Semester 3rd – 4th year/ semesters E & H

ECTS 5


Objectives

In this course students get a general overview of the main theories

formulated in classical and late Antiquity concerning the definition and nature of eternity and time; become acquainted with Plotinus'

theory of eternity, time and the way they are related; and acquire

the ability to recognize the difference between Plotinus' theory of time and other ancient Greek philosophical theories of time, as well

as the similarity of the Plotinian theory to some modern and

contemporary philosophical theories of time.

Skills

Upon completing this course

• students will be able to study treatises of Plotinus and understand

the place of Plotinian metaphysics within the framework of ancient Greek metaphysics

Prerequisites Knowledge of the central theses and concepts of the physics and metaphysics of Plato and Aristotle

Course description

Detailed study of Plotinus' treatise On Eternity and Time (Ennead III 7 [45]). The study of selected passages from Plato's Timaeus,

Aristotle's Physics, books IV and VIII, and some fragments of the Stoics are required in order to follow Plotinus' presentation and

critique of the theories of his predecessors. For the study of the

Plotinian theory of eternity we shall also read passages from

treatises V 9 [5] and V 5 [32] concerning the structure of Intellect. For the study of his theory of time we shall also read passages from

treatises V 3 [49] and I 1 [53] concerning the structure of Soul.

Course readings

• Πλωτίνου, Εννεάς Τρίτη, αρχ.κειμ.-μτφρ.-σχόλια Π.

ΚAΛΛIΓAΣ, Ακαδημία Αθηνών, 2004

• J. E. MCGUIRE & S. K. Strange «An Annotated Translation of Plotinus Ennead III 7: 'On Eternity and Time'», Ancient Philosophy 8 (1988), 251-271

• P. MANCHESTER, «Time and the Soul in Plotinus, III 7 [45], 11, Dionysius 2 (1978), 101-136.

• A. SMITH, «Eternity and Time», The Cambridge Companion to Plotinus, 196-216.


Text reading and text analysis. In every lecture students are provided with photocopies of the passages that are to be read and

analysed.

Requirements & Exams

Final written examination: Students are asked to provide an analysis

of an excerpt of the treatise and then answer a broader question concerning the relation of the excerpt to Plotinus' overall theory.

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Course title Issues in Medieval Philosophy

Code No 5010

Category Elective

Year of Studies / Semester 3rd - 4th year/ semester 5, 7

ECTS 5

Instructor Christopoulou

Objectives Acquaintance with some of the most influential issues of medieval

philosophy concerning ontological and epistemological problems

Skills

To acquire the ability to correlate philosophical problems and questions that were raised in the middle ages with contemporary

ontological and epistemological problems under investigation in

analytic philosophy

Prerequisites None

Course description

• Logic in the Middle ages (Boethius, Abelard)

• The anti-dialectical attitude. Damian

• Metaphysics of William of Champeax, John Duns Scotus

• The Universals controversy. Realism vs Nominalism

• The picture of the World. Cosmology in 12th and 13th centuries

• The relations between philosophy and theology in 13th cent. The conflict and condemnations of 1277. Philosophical attempts to

deal with the controversy: Bacon, Grosseteste, Bonaventura,

Aquinas

• Natural philosophy: Study of motion in 14th cent. Merton scholars.

Course readings

Lindberg, D. (1992) The beginnings of western science, Chicago University Press

Alessio, F, (μετάφρ.) (2007) Ιστορία της Μεσαιωνικής Φιλοσοφίας, Εκδ. Τραυλός

Teaching & learning methods Lectures. Study of translated passages. E-class

Requirements & Exams Written final examination

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Course title Philosophy texts in English

Code No 5011

Category Elective

Year of Studies / Semester 3rd-4th year / Semester E & H

ECTS 5


Objectives To acquire the ability to understand a philosophical text in English

without the help of a translation.

Skills

Students acquire the ability to study and understand a philosophical text in English. Preparation for MA studies which require direct

knowledge of bibliographies in English.

Prerequisites Knowledge of English (reading).

Course description

Ayer’s ‘Freedom and necessity’ on determinism, free will and compatibilism; parts of Quine’s ‘On what there is’, on ontological

commitment.

Course readings

Instructor notes on e-class on background of texts studied. The

following texts will be distributed to students:

A. J. Ayer, ‘Freedom and necessity’, Philosophical Essays, Greenwood,

1980.

W. V. O. Quine, ‘On what there is’, From a Logical Point of View,

Harvard University Press, 1980.


Reading, reconstruction and commentary of text’s argument.

Drawing up of English philosophical glossary. Translation of passages.

Requirements & Exams Translation and commentary of a passage (which has already been studied)during term and in final exam.

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Course title Epistemology and Metaphysics: Modern Period II

Code No 5012

Category

Year of Studies /

Semester 3rd year/ Semester E

ECTS 5

Instructor Kyriaki Goudeli

Objectives

By the end of the course students should be familiar with the following issues and

concepts:

Spinoza: Substance, attribute, mode, immanence, monism, mind-body

relationship, order of things-order of knowledge, expression, passions, freedom and natural order.

Leibniz: monads, organic conception of the universe, mind-body parallelism, pre-established harmony.

Skills Ability to study original philosophical texts; ability to study secondary sources in comparative and critical juxtaposition to original texts

Prerequisites Epistemology and Metaphysics: Modern Period I

Course description

The course deals with the philosophy of Spinoza and Leibniz in the context of 17th century post-cartesian metaphysics and epistemology.

Through Spinoza’s philosophy we will examine the radicalization of traditional metaphysics by the innovative conception of a ‘secular metaphysics’, which is

essentially introduced by the notions of the immanence of divinity in the

Universe and the identity of God with Nature. This critical move opens up a new understanding – with regard to the Cartesian one – of the relationship between

man and nature, a new model of knowledge, a monistic approach in the mind-

body question and a conception of human freedom that integrates the human

being within the order of nature.

Leibniz’s philosophy will be examined in parallel ways to Spinoza’s themes,

demonstrating its complementarity with, and differentiations from, the latter. Emphasis will be on the organic/monadological conception of the

Universe and the epistemological and ethical connotations of this approach.

Course readings

Original texts by Spinoza and Leibniz (abstracts from Spinoza’s Ethics, Leibniz’s

Monadology and Discouse on Metaphysics). Secondary sources on Spinoza’s and Leibniz’s philosophy (Deleuze’s Spinoza and the problem of Expression, The

Fold), abstracts from texts on the history of philosophy (Cottingham, Kenny,

Alesio)

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3rd & 4th Year / 6th & 8th Semester

Course title Plato and Aristotle on the Soul

Code No 5013

Category Elective

Year of Studies / Semester 3rd and 4th year-Semester F and H

ECTS 5


Objectives

• To acquaint students with classical theories concerning the

nature of the soul, its relation to the body and its functions.

• To understand and be able to criticize, compare and evaluate opposing views in ancient Greek philosophy of

mind.

• To understand how philosophical knowledge of a particular

topic or set of questions grows in complexity and insight by means of objections, exchanging criticisms and opposing

arguments.

• To help students recognize similarities and differences

between the ancient philosophical views of the soul and comtemporary theories in philosophy of mind.

Skills

The students will be able to:

• Read and critically study the classical texts.

• Compare conflicting philosophical theses and arguments.

• Spot similarities and differences between classical and contemporary philosophical doctrines.

Prerequisites Basic knowledge of Platonic and Aristotelian metaphysics and natural philosophy

Course description

We will examine Plato's and Aristotle's views concerning the nature and function of the soul. We will consider the models applied by the

two philosophers in explaining the functions of the soul. We will study passages from the following texts: (a) Phaedo, (b) The

Republic, (c) De Anima. We will also look at contemporary theories

of the mind-body relation, which are of some interpretative value for analyzing ancient Greek views of the soul.

Course readings

Primary Sources

• Cooper, J. M. & D. S. Hutchinson, (eds.), 1997, Plato: Complete Works, Indianapolis: Hackett.

• Hamlyn, D.W. [1968] 1993. Aristotle De Anima, Books II and III (with passages from Book I), translated with Introduction

and Notes by D.W. Hamlyn, Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Secondary bibliography

• Everson, S., (ed.), 1991, Companions to Ancient Thought 2: Psychology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Teaching & learning methods Lectures with the use of powerpoint presentations, handouts, and

additional material available at the course’s webpage (eclass).

Requirements & Exams Two written exminations in weeks 8 and 13, and final end of term written or oral examination (minimum 50 % in all examinations)

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Course title Book Lambda of Aristotle’s Metaphysics

Code No 5014

Category Elective

Year of Studies / Semester 3rd-4th year/ semester G & H

ECTS 5

Instructor Melina G. Mouzala

Objectives

• to understand the basic Aristotelian distinction between

First and Second Philosophy

• tο become familiar with the fundamental principles of

Aristotle’s Μetaphysics and especially with the basic tenets of his “Theology”

Skills • careful reading of philosophical texts

• development of critical thinking skills

Prerequisites None

Course description

Our aim in this course is to approach and explore Book Lambda of Aristotle’s Metaphysics as an independent ontological and

metaphysical treatise, which means that we try to understand it on

its own terms, following in our reading the division of the book in three parts: the introduction (Λ1), the section on sensible substances

(Λ2-Λ5), and the section on supra-sensible substances. We focus on

the explanation of the ontological status and the specific features of the prime unmoved mover. Furthermore we examine the

Aristotelian discussion of the nature of God as a certain kind of

intellect, i.e., the divine intellect whose very essence is to be always

actually thinking as opposed to intelligent beings, i.e. human beings, in whom the intellect may or may not be exercised.

Course readings Book Lambda of Aristotle’s Metaphysics. Some passages from the ancient commentaries on Book Lambda and on the De anima.

Teaching & learning methods Close reading

Requirements & Exams Written examinations

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Course title Logic II

Code No 5015

Category Elective

Year of Studies / Semester 3rd -4th year/ semester F & H

ECTS 5


Objectives To study certain issues of Philosophical Logic

Skills

To correlate problems of Logic with issues of analytic metaphysics

and epistemology and be acquainted with analytic texts about the problems of identity, existence, truth and modality

Prerequisites None

Course description

This course focuses on certain topics of Philosophical Logic: e.g. the logical form of atomic sentences, the notion and the laws of identiy,

the notion of existence and the use of quantifiers, existential import

and export, existential fallacy, the notion of necessity, truth

theories, logical truths, theory of formal proof

Course readings

Texts from:

1. Restall G. (2006), Logic (an introduction), London & N. York,

Routledge

2. Kargopoulos F. (2007), Introduction to Symbolic Logic, Vanias

2. McGinn C. (2000) Logical Properties, Oxford University Press

4. Engel P.(2000) Truth, Scripta

5. Αραγεώργη A. «Θεωρία Απόδειξης. Μεταθεωρία» in Lecture

notes in Logic, Παν/κές εκδόσεις Πάτρας

Teaching & learning methods Lectures. Exercises. Ε-class

Requirements & Exams Written final examination. Exercises.

Erasmus students: homework on one of the above themes

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Course title Freedom and Justice

Code No 5016

Category Elective

Year of Studies / Semester 3rd - 4th year/ semester F & H

ECTS 5


Objectives


• understand the basic issues and arguments presented by the modern philosophies of self-determination

• connect the philosophies of Rousseau and Kant with the theory of justice as fairness formulated by Rawls and contemporary

discussions concerning freedom

• critically evaluate certain contemporary theories about freedom

Skills


• efficiently study the main texts of this tradition

• understand the technical terms developed by this tradition of thought


Prerequisites None

Course description

Freedom is the basic value for one of the most prominent currents of modern practical philosophy which was inaugurated by

Rousseau, developed and systematized by Kant, and transformed by

Hegel’ system, where it reached its culmination. In this course we will examine this tradition of modern practical philosophy and

especially the ideal of a free and just society which is elaborated on

the basis of the idea of freedom as self-determination. Some of the

main issues to be studied include the question of the value of universal freedom as well as the feasibility of a society that secures

and advances this basic value. In the first part of the course we will

discuss Rousseau’s views on freedom and autonomy and then focus on Kant’s political philosophy and philosophy of history. In the

second part of the course we will study Rawls’ theory of justice as a

reformulation of the problem of freedom as self-determination. In particular we will study issues concerning the justification of the

principles of justice, the content of the principles and the stability of

the well-ordered and just society. The last lectures will be devoted to the Kantian interpretation of justice as fairness as it is presented in

Rawls’ lectures «Kantian Constructivism in Moral Theory» (1980).

Course readings

Αγγελίδης, Ε. και Α. Γκιούρας Θεωρίες του Κράτους και της Πολιτικής (Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel), Σαββάλας, Αθήνα,

2005.

Berlin, I. Τέσσερα Δοκίμια Περί Ελευθερίας, Scripta, Αθήνα, 2001.

Carter, I. A Measure of Freedom, O.U.P., Oxford, 1999.

Carter, I., Kramer, M. H. and Steiner, H. (επ.) Freedom: A Philosophical Anthology, Blackwell, Oxford, 2007.

Darwall, Stephen, «Is There a Kantian Foundation for Rawlsian

Justice?» στο H. G. Blocker και E. H. Smith (επ.), John Rawls’s Theory of Justice: an Introduction, Ohio University Press, Athens, 1980.

Kant, I. Θεμέλια της Μεταφυσικής των Ηθών, Δωδώνη, Αθήνα, 1984.

Kant, I. Δοκίμια, Δωδώνη, Αθήνα, 1971.

Μιχαλάκης, Α. Το Δίκαιο και το Αγαθό: Δοκίμιο για τη Θεωρία Δικαιοσύνης του John Rawls, Αλεξάνδρεια, 2013.

Rawls, John [1971, 19992] Θεωρία της Δικαιοσύνης,

Πόλις, Αθήνα, 2001.

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- [1993, 19962]Πολιτικός Φιλελευθερισμός,

Μεταίχμιο, Αθήνα, 2004.

- [2001]Η Δίκαιη Κοινωνία, Πόλις, Αθήνα,

2006.

- Collected Papers, επιμ. S. Freeman, Harvard

University Press, 1999.

Rousseau, J-J. Πραγματεία περί της καταγωγής και των θεμελίων της ανισότητας ανάμεσα στους ανθρώπους, Σύγχρονη Εποχή,

Αθήνα, 1992.

Rousseau, J-J. Το κοινωνικό συμβόλαιο ή Αρχές πολιτικού

δικαίου. Πόλις, Αθ. 2005.

Teaching & learning methods Lectures as well as reading and discussion of passages from the basic texts; e-class.


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Course title Analytic Metaphysics

Code No 5017

Category Elective

Year of Studies / Semester 3rd - 4th year/ semester F & H

ECTS 5


Objectives

Knowledge of two advanced classic analytic philosophers and their

methodology (eg acquaintance with application of modal arguments to metaphysical problems).

Skills Acquisition of contemporary philosophical concepts. Ability to understand advanced texts.

Prerequisites None

Course description

Study of metaphysical positions in two major analytic philosophers, Wilfrid Sellars and Saul Kripke. Sellars (1960) distinguished two

descriptions of the world, the ‘scientific image’ and the ‘manifest

image’. While both descriptions seem true, they contradict one another. In his attempt to decide which one should be rejected,

Sellars reaches unexpected results and questions the metaphysical

validity of the scientific image of man. Kripke (1970/1980) formulates a number of theses on the modality of identity

statements and uses them to reject the claim that mental states are

identical to physiological states, reaching conclusions comparable to Sellars’s in the metaphysics of mind.

Course readings

E-class for the course Analytic Metaphysics


Wilfrid Sellars, ‘Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man’:

http://www.ditext.com/sellars/psim.html

Saul Kripke, Naming and Necessity, Harvard University Press, 1980.

Teaching & learning methods Lectures. Study of translated passages.E-class at https://eclass.upatras.gr/courses/PHIL1873

Requirements & Exams Written final examination. Optional student presentations.

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Course title Epistemology and Metaphysics in Late Antiquity

Code No 5018

Category Elective

Year of Studies / Semester 3th-4th year /Semester F & H

ECTS 5


Objectives

Skills Mastery of skills required to attend presentations on ancient Greek

metaphysics

Prerequisites Knowledge of ancient Greek metaphysics from the relevant

departmental courses.

Course description

The following topics are examined in this course:

1. The theory of Platonic Forms in the Neoplatonist Proclus

2. Theology as a science in the Neoplatonist Proclus

3. General introduction to the work of the Neoplatonist Damascius

4. The relation of philosophy with natural science in the

Neoplatonist Damascius

Course readings

Gersh St., From Iamblichus to Eriugena, E.J. Brill, Leiden,

1978,

Ανδριόπουλος Δ, Αρχαία ελληνική γνωσιοθεωρία. Παπαδήμας,

Αθήνα 2003,

Saffrey, H.D., Recherches sur néoplatonisme après Plotin,

J. Vrin, Paris, 1990.


Requirements & Exams Written examination

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Course Title Heidegger

Code No 5019

Category Elective

Year of Studies, Semester 3rd-4th / Semester F & H

ECTS 5


Objectives


• Have an overview of the main issues raised by Heidegger in Being and Time

• Understand the main technical terms

• Understand Being and Time as a phenomenological study

Skills

Students will be in a position:

• Study Heidegger’s texts in the light of Husserl’s phenomenology

• Use Heidegger’s terms to adress contemporary philosophical issues

Prerequisites None

Course Description

The course will offer an introduction to the classic 20th century text Being and Time. The book has been praised as one of the most

important and representative texts of contemporary philosophy, but has also been accused of being completely meaningless.

We will focus on the work’s phenomenological character and on the clarification and potential justification of its main arguments.

Special attention will be paid on the following phenomena: the use of utensils, anxiety, death, temporality and its threefold structure, the

contrast between authenticity and inauthenticity, etc.

Course Readings

1. Μ. Heiddegger, Being and Time (Greek translation)

2. -----, The basic problems of Phenomenology (Greek translation by the instructor)

3. -----, The concept of time (Greek translation)

4. F. Dastur, Heidegger and the problem of time (Greek

translation)

Teaching and learning


Requirements

Exams

Three (3) short writen assignments of 10 pages in total to be also

presented in class. Late papers will not be accepted.

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Course Title 20th Century philosophical texts:

Hans-Georg Gadamer

Code No 5020

Category Elective

Year of Studies 3d or 4th / semester F & H

ECTS 5


Objectives

• To closely study Gadamer’s five Paris lectures on The Problem of Historical Consciousness.

• Acquaintance with central topics of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s philosophical thought concerning matters of the historicity of

consciousness, the universality of hermeneutics, and Gadamer’s

critique of romantic historicism.

Skills

Students should be able to employ the reading skills gained during their

first two years of studies in order to be able to grasp Gadamer’s thinking by reading the original texts.

Prerequisites Basic topics of hermeneutic philosophy

Course Readings

Χ.- Γκ. Γκάνταμερ, Το πρόβλημα της ιστορικής συνείδησης, μετφρ. Α.

Ζέρβας, Αθήνα, Ίνδικτος, 1998

Suggested bibliography for further reading:

W. Dilthey, Η γένεση της ερμηνευτικής, εις. μετφρ. σχολ. Δ. Υφαντής,

Αθήνα 2010, ιδιαίτερα: Εισαγωγή του μεταφραστή, σελ. 9-52

Γ. Ξηροπαϊδης, Η διαμάχη των ερμηνειών. Gadamer – Habermas, Αθήνα

2008


Methods

Lectures

Short-length essays

Student presentations

Use of supporting material and secondary bibliography

Requirements /

Exams

Essay evaluation (essays of 6-8 pages) assigned to students during the course: (40%)

Final written examination with free use of supporting material: 60%

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Course title The social and political philosophy of K. Marx

Code No 5021

Category Elective

Year of Studies / Semester 3rd – 4th / Semesters F & H

ECTS 5


Objectives

On completing this course, students be able to

• understand the main issues of Marx’s social and political philosophy

• understand the basic concepts of Marxian theory both in its early formulation as in its mature developments

• comprehend the relationship between Marx’s theory and

Hegel’s political philosophy

• critically evaluate different and conflicting interpretations of Marx’s thought

Skills

Having completed this course, students be able to

• study the main texts of Marx

• understand the technical terms of Marx’s philosophy


Prerequisites None

Course description

This course examines some of the most important writings of Karl

Marx. Its aim is to provide an introduction to basic concepts of Marx’s theory and their philosophical foundations. We will follow

the development of Marx’s thought from his early writings to the

critique of political economy and examine the importance of Hegel’s influence on Marx. The principal texts are Marx’s

Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Law, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, The German Ideology and Capital vol. I.

Course readings

Works by Marx

Marx, K., Κριτική της Εγελιανής Φιλοσοφίας του Κράτους,

Παπαζήσης, Αθήνα, 1978.

" Οικονομικά και Φιλοσοφικά Χειρόγραφα του 1844, μτφ.

Μ. Γραμμένος, Γλάρος, Αθήνα, 1975.

" Το Εβραϊκό Ζήτημα, μτφ. Κρητικός, Οδυσσέας, Αθήνα, χ.χ.

" Grundrisse, Ι-ΙΙΙ, μτφ. Δ. Διβάρης, Στοχαστής, Αθήνα, 1989-1992.

" Το Κεφάλαιο, τομ.Ι, ΙΙ, ΙΙΙ, μτφ. Π. Μαυρομάτης, Σύγχρονη Εποχή, Αθήνα, 1978-9.

" Γερμανική Ιδεολογία, Ι, ΙΙ, μτφ. Φιλίνης, Gutenberg, Αθήνα, χ.χ.

Works on Marx

Colletti, L. Για το Νεαρό Μαρξ, Οδυσσέας, Αθήνα, 1977.

Marcuse, H., Λόγος και Επανάσταση: Ο Χέγκελ και η Γένεση της Κοινωνικής Θεωρίας, Ύψιλον, Αθήνα, 1985.

Meszaros, I., Η Θεωρία του Μαρξ για την Αλλοτρίωση, Ράππας,

Αθήνα, 1983.

Μιχαλάκης, Α. Ο Νεαρός Μαρξ, Πάτρα, 2007.

Rubin, I., "Η μαρξική θεωρία της αξίας", Δευκαλίων, (11/2), 1993.

Teaching & learning methods Lectures as well as reading and discussing passages from the basic texts; e-class.

Requirements & Exams Final written examinations

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Course title Topics in the Philosophy of Mind

Code No 5023

Category Elective

Year of Studies / Semester 3rd – 4th / Semesters F & H

ECTS 5

Instructor Costas Pagondiotis

Objectives

On completing this course, students will have detailed acquaintance

with the main approaches to the nature of mind and its relation to the brain and the body. Moreover, they will be acquainted with

foundational issues in the philosophy of mind including

intentionality, consciousness, and self-consciousness.

Skills

By the end of the course, students should be able to:

• defend a philosophical position on core themes of the course,

• compare and contrast the major theories presented in the course and identify the main assumptions presupposed by

these theories, and

• critically study texts on philosophy of mind

Prerequisites None

Course description

The course examines the main approaches in analytic philosophy to the nature of mind and its relation to the brain and the body. In the

first part, we examine dualism, logical behaviorism, type-identity

theory, anomalous monism, functionalism, representational and computational theory of mind, and eliminative materialism. In the

second part, we examine three features of mental phenomena that

cause problems for the attempt to naturalize mental phenomena. These features are: intentionality, consciousness, and self-

consciousness.

Course readings

• Kim, Jaegwon (1998): Philosophy of Mind. Boulder,

CO: Westview Press.

• Searle, J. R. (1984). Minds, Brains and Science. Harvard University Press.

• Hofstadter, D. &Dennett, D. (eds) (2001): The Mind's I- Fantasies And Reflections On Self & Soul. Basic Books.

• Churchland, P. M. (1984) Matter and Consciousness A contemporary Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind. MIT

Press

Teaching & learning methods Lectures with the use of powerpoint presentations and handouts. Reading and discussion of short passages. Use of eclass.


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Course title Natural Philosophy and Natural Science in Ancient Greek

Thought

Code No 5024

Category Elective

Year of Studies / Semester 3 and 4th year/ Semester F & H

ECTS 5


Objectives

• Knowledge of the most significant theoretical trends in ancient

Greek natural philosophy (materialism, atomism, monism,

pluralism).

• Understanding of the basic principles of ancient Greek science (in particular physics, astronomy, zoology, medicine) and of

their application to the corresponding domains.

Skills

• Textual analysis

• Search for terms and passages in electronic and other sources.

• Comparison and evaluation of scientific explanations and

scientific theories

Prerequisites Basic knowledge of Aristotelian metaphysics and natural philosophy

Course description

We will sudy the main currents of ancient Greek natural science

from the Presocratics to the Hellenistic era, focusing on the domains of physics, astronomy, zoology and medicine.

Course readings

Primary Sources

Aristotle, Physics, revised Greek text with introduction and

commentary by William David Ross, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1936.

Kirk, G. S., J. E. Raven & M. Schofield, (eds.), 1983, The Presocratic Philosophers, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Secondary sources

GER Lloyd, (1970) Early Greek Science: Thales to Aristotle. New York:

W.W. Norton & Co.

_______ 1973) Greek Science after Aristotle. New York: W.W. Norton &

Co.

Teaching & learning methods Lectures with the use of power-point presentations, handouts, and additional material available at the course’s webpage (eclass).


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