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Philosophy
Winter semester 2015/2016
List of courses (descriptions are below the list):
1. A Comparative Analysis of Leibniz’s Monadology and Ontology of Wittgenstein’s
Tractatus logico-philosophicus (Prof. Marek Rosiak)
2. Aesthetic of Jazz (Prof. Grzegorz Malinowski)
3. Art, Philosophy, Criticism. Aesthetic Dilemmas of Modernity (Agnieszka Rejniak-
Majewska, PhD)
4. Basic Notions of Contemporary Ontology (Prof. Marek Rosiak)
5. Cognitive Science. Selected Topics (Prof. Janusz Maciaszek)
6. Computational Theories of Mind (Paweł Grabarczyk, PhD)
7. Contemporary Theories of Proper Names and Natural Kind Terms (Alicja
Markiewicz, MA)
8. Hauptströmungen der europäischen Ethik (Prof. Andrzej Maciej Kaniowski)
9. Introduction to Aesthetics (Justyna Czupiłka, MA)
10. Introduction to Classical Philosophy (Prof. Marek Gensler)
11. Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology (Prof. Marek Nowak)
12. Introduction to Phenomenological Ontology (Prof. Marek Rosiak)
13. Introduction to Political Philosophy (Michał Zawidzki, PhD)
14. Introduction to Process Philosophy (Prof. Marek Rosiak)
15. Issues in Philosophy of Religion (Tomasz Sieczkowski, PhD)
16. Metaphysics and Ontology (Prof. Janusz Kaczmarek)
17. Methodology of Social Research (Janusz Ciuciura, PhD)
18. Mythology and Philosophy in Richard Wagner’s Musical Works (Prof. Marek Rosiak)
19. Philosophical Antropology (Prof. Janusz Kaczmarek)
20. Philosophical Theories of Part and Whole (Prof. Marek Rosiak)
21. Philosophy of Language (Prof. Janusz Maciaszek)
22. Polish Analytical Philosophy (Paweł Grabarczyk, PhD)
23. Rhetoric and Argumentation (Michał Zawidzki, PhD)
24. Speech Act Theory (Prof. Marek Nowak)
25. Theories of Metaphor (Prof. Janusz Maciaszek)
26. Vegetarianism. Social and Cultural Aspects (Janusz Ciuciura, PhD)
In case of any doubts do not hesitate to contact Erasmus Coordinator at the Institute of
Philosophy prof. Janusz Maciaszek ([email protected])
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Course title 1. A Comparative Analysis of Leibniz’s Monadology
and Ontology of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus logico-
philosophicus Form* T
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s)
Year/semester 2015/2016 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content Analysis of spiritualistic atomism of Monadology.and logical
atomism of Tractatus logico-philosophicus showing their systematic
correspondencies and basic differences.
Assessment scheme Regular attendance, activity and/or written work
Lecturer Marek Rosiak
Contact [email protected]
USOS code
Literature Leibniz, Monadology
Wittgenstein, Tractatus logico-philosophicus
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other
Course title 2. Aesthetic of Jazz
Form* T
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2015/2016 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content A historically sensitive discussion and analysis of the jazz music
aesthetics,
including jazz origins, jazz standards and its development
Assessment scheme Active participation
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Lecturer Grzegorz Malinowski
Contact [email protected]
USOS code
Literature G.C. Ward, K. Burns, Jazz. A history of America’s music, Alfred A.
Knopf,
2000.
M.C. Gridley, Jazz styles (History and analysis), Prentice Hall, 1997.
The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (ed. Barry Kernfeld), Macmillan,
(1994),
1996.
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other
Course title 3. Art, Philosophy, Criticism. Aesthetic Dillemas of
Modernity Form* T
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2015/2016 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content The course offers an overview of main philosophical problems of
modern and contemporary aesthetics related with the changing
conceptions of art, different approaches to human subjectivity, aesthetic
experience, creativity and social communication. The order of readings
(selected fragments from classical texts plus more recent critical essays and
artists’ statements) is to emphasize the relations between aesthetic theory
and wider processes of cultural and artistic change.
Assessment scheme Active participation, one paper (essay) on a chosen topic
Lecturer Agnieszka Rejniak-Majewska
Contact [email protected]
USOS code
Literature - Kant, Immanuel, Critique of Judgment, trans. James Creed
Meredith, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007
- Schiller, Friedrich, Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man, trans.
Reginald Snell, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
- Greenberg, Clement, Can Taste be Objective?; Experience of Value,
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in: idem, Homemade Aesthetics, Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1999.
- Benjamin, Walter, The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological
Reproducibility, in: idem, The Work of Art in the Age of Its
Technological Reproducibility and Other Writings on Media, ed.
Michael W. Jennings, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press,
2008,
- Adorno, Theodor, Aesthetic Theory, trans. Robert Hullot-Kentor,
New York, London: Continnum, 1997.
- Bürger, Peter, Theory of the Avant-garde, trans. Michael Shaw,
Mineapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984.
- Kosuth, Joseph, Art After Philosophy, in: idem, Art after Philosophy
and After. Collected Writings, 1966-1990, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT
Press 1991
- Jacques Rancière, The Aesthetic Revolution and Its Outcomes, “New
Left Review” nr 14, March 2002
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other
Course title 4. Basic Notions of Contemporary Ontology
Form* T
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s)
Year/semester 2015/2016 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content An introductory course in systematic ontology. The course can
introduce more advanced notions and theories depending on the level
of competence of participants.
Assessment scheme Regular attendance, activity and/or written work
Lecturer Marek Rosiak
Contact [email protected]
USOS code
Literature Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology, ed. H. Burkhardt
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other
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Course title 5. Cognitive Science. Selected Topics
Form* T
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s)
Year/semester 2015/2016 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content History of cognitive science
Philosophy of cognitive science
Models of mind
Models of memory
Assessment scheme Regular attendance, activity, and presentation
Lecturer Janusz Maciaszek
Contact [email protected]
USOS code
Literature Bechtel, W. and G. Graham (eds.) 1999 A Companion to Cognitive
Science.
Blackwell Publishers.
Clark, A. 2001 Mindware. An Introduction to the philosophy of
Cognitive Science. Oxford University Press.
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other
Course title 6. Computational Theories of Mind
Form* T
Level of course graduate (master’s)
Year/semester 2015/2016 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content The easiest way to introduce computational theories of mind is to invoke a
famous metaphor – the mind is the software and the brain is the hardware.
From the outset of theories of computation (it was evident in the seminal
Turing paper) the idea that the mind might be a set of algorithms
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implemented in the brain seemed very attractive. It looked like we could eat
our cake and have it too: the intuition that the mind is somehow immaterial
was preserved but we didn't have to adhere to any metaphysical claims.
Everything was coached in standard naturalistic terms.
Unfortunately the idea has been severely challenged in the following years.
Most notably by John R. Searle famous counterexamples (the Chinese room
thought experiment) and by the advance of connectivists' models of mind
(the neural networks approach).
The course gives the students a thorough understandig of classic and current
approaches to computational theories of mind.
Assessment scheme Active participation, marked paper
Lecturer Paweł Grabarczyk
Contact [email protected]
USOS code
Literature Alan Turing, Computing machinery and intelligence
Tim Crane "The Mechanical Mind"
Gualtiero Piccinini, "Computations and Computers in the Sciences
of Mind and Brain"
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other
Course title 7. Contemporary Theories of Proper Names and
Natural Kind Terms Form* T
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s)
Year/semester 2015/2016 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content An introduction to the contemporary theories of the proper names and
the natural kind terms with particular focus on the semantic
externalism being one of the most popular and thoroughly discussed
standpoints in the philosophy of language and represented by Saul
Kripke and Hilary Putnam.
Assessment scheme Essay (word limit: 1000-1500)
Lecturer Alicja Markiewicz,
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Contact [email protected]
USOS code
Literature 1. Putnam H. (1975), The meaning of 'meaning.' In Mind, language
and reality: Philosophical papers, vol. 2. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 215–71.
2. Kripke S. (1980), Naming and Necessity, Harvard: Harvard
University Press.
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other
Course title 8. Hauptströmungen der europäischen Ethik (Main
currents of the european ethics) Form* T
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2015/2016 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
German
No. of hours 30
Course content Im Rahmen des Tutorials werden Grundtypen ethischer Theorien
sowie Grundformen moralischer Argumentation besprochen. Für das
europäische Denken sind zwei Modelle normativer Ethik von
grundlegender Bedeutung: ein teleologische und ein deontologischer
Ansatz. Die Lektüre von Auszügen aus klassischen Texten von
Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Kant und Mill wird einen Einblick in
Paradigmen des ethischen Denkens und ein besseres Verständnis in
den Sinn und die Ursachen vieler zeitgenössischen
Auseinandersetzungen ethischer Art.
Assessment scheme Aktive Teilnahme (erbtacht durch Referat etc.)
Lecturer Andrzej Maciej Kaniowski
Contact andrzej.kaniowski@ uni.lodz.pl
USOS code
Literature Ausgewählte Passagen und Auszüge aus den Schriften von Aristotle,
Thomas Aquinas, Kant und Mill.
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other
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Course title 9. Introduction to Aesthetics
Form* T
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s)
Year/semester 2015/2016 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content 1. Aesthetics formulated by Aleksander Baumgarten and its key
terms;
2. Modern aesthetics and its paradigm called classic aesthetic situation
(artist - work – recipient);
3. Basic categories of aesthetics;
4. Concepts of aesthetic education – F. Schiller;
5. Aestheticization processes;
6. Pragmatist aesthetics and Somaesthetics;
7. Theories of the avant-garde;
8. Category of art in crisis
Assessment scheme At least 80% attendance,
Homework Assignment,
Final test
Lecturer Justyna Czupiłka
Contact [email protected]
USOS code
Literature Umberto Eco, Interpretation and Overinterpretation, Cambridge
University Press, 1992.
Umberto Eco, On ugliness, Rizzoli, 2007.
Umberto Eco, History of beauty, Rizzoli, 2010.
Michel Foucault, What is an author?, 1969
<http://artsites.ucsc.edu/faculty/Gustafson/FILM%20162.W10/readin
gs/foucault.author.pdf >.
Richard Shusterman, Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of
Mindfulness and Somaesthetics, Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Arthur Danto, The Artworld, The Journal of Philosophy, vol. 61, 1964
<http://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/visualarts/Danto-
Artworld.pdf>.
Wolfgang Welsch, Aesthetics Beyond Aesthetics, 1997
<http://www2.uni-jena.de/welsch/Papers/beyond.html>.
Friedrich von Schiller, Letters Upon The Aesthetic Education of
Man,1990 <http://www.bartleby.com/32/503.html>.
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other
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Course title 10. Introduction to Classical Philosophy
Form* T
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2015/2016 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content The course presents main lines of development in Ancient ad
Medieval philosophy (from Plato to Ockham), showing the specificity
of pre-Modern thought
Assessment scheme Active participation, term paper
Lecturer Marek Gensler
Contact [email protected]
USOS code
Literature Fragments of texts by Plato, Aristotle, Seneca, Augustine,
Anselm of Canterbury, Thomas Aquinas, William Ockham
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other
Course title 11. Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology
Form* T
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2015/2016 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content The JTB account of knowledge.
A priori and a posteriori knowledge.
The analytic-synthetic distinction (with application to mathematics).
Epistemic versus traditional deontological justification.
Internalism: foundationalism and coherentism.
Externalism: reliabilism
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Assessment scheme Active participation
Lecturer Marek Nowak
Contact [email protected]
USOS code
Literature R. Chisholm, The Foundations of Knowing, University of
Minnesota Press 1982
R. Chisholm, Theory of Knowledge (3rd ed.), Prentice-Hall
1989
Steup M., An introduction to contemporary epistemology,
Prentice-Hall 1998
R. Audi, Epistemology. A contemporary introduction to the
theory of knowledge (2nd ed.), Routledge 2003
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other
Course title 12. Introduction to Phenomenological Ontology
Form* T
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s)
Year/semester 2015/2016 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content Basic course in phenomenological ontology:
General notion of an object
Basic aspects of an object: matter, form, mode of existence
Basic notions of existential ontology
Basic notions of formal ontology
Some applications:
1. Purely intentional object
2. Idea
3. Types of temporal objects:
A. Object persisting in time
B. Process
C. Event
Assessment scheme Regular attendance, activity and/or written work
Lecturer Marek Rosiak
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Contact [email protected]
USOS code
Literature Ingarden R., The Controversy over the existence of the world, transl.
H. Michejda
Mitscherling J., Roman Ingarden’s Ontology and Aesthetics, Univ. of
Ottawa Press, 1997
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other
Course title 13. Introduction to Political Philosophy
Form* T
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2015/2016 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content The course is devoted to major problems of political philosophy (such
as: the nature of justice, source of the law, obligations of a state, the
extent of personal freedom etc.) answered from the viewpoint of
different philosophers (like, inter alia, Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli,
Smith, Bentham, Marx, Rawls, Nozick) and major political ideologies
(such as, inter alia, liberalism, conservatism, socialism, communism).
As an important part of the course students, together with the lecturer,
will attempt to answer the question of how adequately concrete
elements of these philosophies fit in the contemporary political
reality.
Assessment scheme 1 end of course reflective essay
Lecturer Michał Zawidzki
Contact [email protected]
USOS code
Literature Textbook:
J. Wolff, An Introduction Political Philosophy, Oxford University
Press 2006.
Anthology of original texts:
S. Cahn, Political Philosophy: The Essential Texts, Oxford University
Press 2010.
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other
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Course title 14. Introduction to Process Philosophy
Form* T
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s)
Year/semester 2015/2016 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content Elements of A. N. Whitehead’s process metaphysics
Modern science and philosophy
Critique of substantialism
Critique of idealism
Categorial scheme of process philosophy
Creativity vs. prime matter
Eternal objects vs. universals
Actual occasion vs. substance
Revindication of teleology
God
Assessment scheme Regular attendance, activity and/or written work
Lecturer Marek Rosiak
Contact [email protected]
USOS code
Literature Whitehead A. N.,.Process and Reality. An Essay in Cosmology,
Corrected Edition, The Free Press, N. Y. 1978
Christian W. A., An Interpretation of Whitehead’s Metaphysics, Yale
Univ. Press, New Haven 1959
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other
Course title 15. Issues in Philosophy of Religion
Form* T
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2015/2016 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
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No. of hours 30
Course content The program of the class will cover the following topics:
- General idea of philosophy of religion
- The question of the existence of deity
- Contemporary atheistic ideologies
Assessment scheme Active participation
Lecturer Tomasz Sieczkowski
Contact [email protected]
USOS code
Literature Chad Meister, Introduction Philosophy of Religion
Nicholas Everitt, The Non-existence of God
Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other
Course title 16. Metaphysics and Ontology
Form* T
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2015/2016 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content 1) metaphysics, ontology and prote philosophia,
2) categories,
3) objects, state of affairs, events
4) whole and parts
5) analytical metaphysics and formal ontology
Assessment scheme active participation, term paper
Lecturer Janusz Kaczmarek
Contact [email protected]
USOS code
Literature Aristotle, Metaphysics (fragments),
Copleston F., A History of Philosophy (fragments),
Kim J., Sosa E., A companion to Metaphysics (different
entries),
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Wittgenstein L., Tractatus Logico – Philosophicus,
Wolniewicz B., Logic and Metaphysics,
and other fragments from ontological papers
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other
Course title 17. Methodology of Social Research
Form* T
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2015/2016 winter/semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content The outline programme of the class will cover following topics: This
course is designed for students who are interested in the methodology
of social research. The course extends the general methodology
(methods) of science being presented during the Logic I course. It
provides an overview of the key elements of social research methods
and emphasizes their practical applications.
Assessment scheme Marked paper
Lecturer Janusz Ciuciura
Contact [email protected]
USOS code
Literature Leonard Bickman, Debra J. Rog, Handbook of Applied Social
Research Methods, SAGE, 1998.
Earl R. Babbie, The Practice of Social Research, Wadsworth,
2010
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other
Course title 18. Mythology and Philosophy in Richard Wagner’s
Musical Works Form* T
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s)
Year/semester 2015/2016 winter semester
15
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content Analysis of ideological and philosophical contents of Richard
Wagner’s operas and musical dramas:
The Flying Dutchman, Tannhauser, Lohengrin, Tristan and Isolde,
Ring of Niblung, Parsifal.
The course contains musical illustrations aimed at showing how
abstract ideas have been expressed in music.
Assessment scheme Regular attendance, activity and/or written work
Lecturer Marek Rosiak
Contact [email protected]
USOS code
Literature Dahlhaus C., Wagner
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Newman E, The Life of Richard Wagner
Shaw G. B., The Perfect Wagnerite
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other
Course title 19. Philosophical Anthropology
Form* T
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2015/2016 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content 1. The ideas of anthropology and human being given by Aristotle,
Thomas, Kant, Scheler, Hartmann and other will be presented and
discussed, (and also):
2. Anthropology and ontology
3. Anthropology and ethics
Assessment scheme active participation, term paper or oral presentation
Lecturer Janusz Kaczmarek
Contact [email protected]
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USOS code
Literature Eike Hinz, Outline of a Philosophical Anthropology, 2006
Gilson E., History of Christian Philosophy in the Middle Ages,
1985
Aristotle, Thomas, Kant, Scheler and others – fragments of
writtings
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other
Course title 20. Philosophical Theories of Part and Whole
Form* T
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s)
Year/semester 2015/2016 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content Presentation and analysis of most important contemporary
philosophical part-whole theories. Contains theories of Franz
Brentano, Casimir Twardowski, Edmund Husserl and Roman
Ingarden
Assessment scheme Regular attendance, activity and/or written work
Lecturer Marek Rosiak
Contact [email protected]
USOS code
Literature The Handbook of Mereology, ed. Hans Burkhardt and oths
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other
Course title 21. Philosophy of Language
Form* T
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2015/2016 winter semester
ECTS 6
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Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content Main problems of philosophy of language. Theories of meaning.
Problem of truth. Pragmatics of natural language.
Assessment scheme Regular attendance, activity, and presentation
Lecturer Janusz Maciaszek
Contact [email protected]
USOS code
Literature Fragments of:
Austin, J. L. 1962 How to Do Things with Words. Oxford:
Clerendon Press.
Grice, H. P. 1975 Logic and Conversation. W: P. Cole i J. Morgan
(red.) Syntax and Semantics, vol. 3, Academic Press: London.
Lycan, W. G 2000 Philosophy of Language. A Contemporary
Introduction. London and New York: Routledge.
Martinich, A. P. (ed.) 2001 The Philosophy of Language. New
York: Oxford University Press.
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other
Course title 22. Polish Analytical Philosophy
Form* T
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2015/2016 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content The course introduces the students to the works of the most prolific
polish analytic philosophers – Jan Lukasiewicz, Alfred Tarski,
Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, Andrzej Zabludowski and Marian Przelecki.
Apart from the works which has been translated into English it gives
the student the opportunity to discuss the problems and ideas
contained in works which are currently available only in Polish.
Assessment scheme Active participation, marked paper
Lecturer Paweł Grabarczyk
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Contact [email protected]
USOS code
Literature Jadacki, J. J., Paśniczek, J. (eds.), 2006, The Lvov-Warsaw School —
the New Generation, Rodopi: Amsterdam
Lapointe, S., Woleński, J., Mathieu, M., Miśkiewicz, W., 2009, The
Golden Age of Polish Philosophy. Kazimierz Twardowski's
Philosophical
Legacy, Dordrecht: Springer.
Jadacki, J. J., 2009, Polish Analytical Philosophy, Semper:
Warszawa.
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other
Course title 23. Rhetoric and Argumentation
Form* T
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2015/2016 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content In everyday life we often find ourselves in a situation in which we
discuss certain issues with our interlocutor and even though we feel
that (s)he is wrong with her statements, we cannot tell why.
Frequently it is the case that the interlocutor is only rhetorically more
skillful than us and despite the fact that we are substantially right in
our opinions, it suffices for him (her) to win a discussion.
During the course we are going to learn how to identify unfair
arguments in a discussion. We will also investigate the structure of
arguments and distinguish these constituents of an argument, whose
violation results in a fallacy (or an unfair trick). In the end, we will
get to know different classifications of (both correct and incorrect)
arguments and we will name and discuss the most important types of
them.
A substantial part of the course will be devoted to thought errors we
tend to commit in everyday reasoning (which is one of the causes of
our vulnerability to unfair arguments exploited in discussions). One of
them is known under the name of conjunction fallacy and was
primarily described by Daniel Kahneman in his book “Thinking fast
and slow”, in which he presented the following experiment: a
fictional figure, Linda, was pictured to a group of students as follows:
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“Linda is 31 years old, single, outspoken, and very bright. She
majored in philosophy. As a student, she was deeply concerned with
issues of discrimination and social justice, and also participated in
anti-nuclear demonstrations.” Afterwards, the students were asked
which is more probable:
a) Linda is a bank teller
b) Linda is a bank teller and is active in the feminist movement.
Even though a) is correct by the sole structure of both answers, and
we do not need to refer to our knowledge about the external world to
find it out, 90% of respondents picked the second option!
It turns out that in everyday reasoning we tend to make a lot of such
thinking errors. Some of them are of logical nature – we draw
conclusions from premises improperly, other consist in, e.g., not
paying enough attention to premises one accepts.
During the course we will systematically track and classify different
kinds of fallacies committed in everyday reasoning, and will learn
how to avoid them.
Assessment scheme 2 course works, each one consisting of a set of logical problems to
solve
Lecturer Michał Zawidzki
Contact [email protected]
USOS code
Literature K. Ajdukiewicz, Pragmatic Logic, Reidel 1974.
D. Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2012.
A. Schopenhauer, The Art of Always Being Right, Gibson Square
Books 2009.
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other
Course title 24. Speech Act Theory
Form* T
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2015/2016 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content Performative sentences. Locutionary, perlocutionary and illocutionary
acts due to Austin.
Illocutionary force according to Searle. A taxonomy of illocutionary
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acts.
Illocutionary logic of Vanderveken.
Assessment scheme Active participation
Lecturer Marek Nowak
Contact [email protected]
USOS code
Literature J. L. Austin, How to Do Things with Words, Clarendon Press
1962
J. R. Searle, Speech acts, Cambridge 1969
J. R. Searle, D. Vanderveken, Foundations of illocutionary
logic, Cambridge 1985
D. Vanderveken, Meaning and Speech Acts, Cambridge 1990-
91
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other
Course title 25. Theories of Metaphor
Form* T
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2015/2016 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content Metaphor as a problem of philosophy of language
Metaphor in philology and hermeneutics
The overview of current theories of metaphor
Metaphor in cognitive science
Assessment scheme Presentation or written essay.
Lecturer Janusz Maciaszek
Contact [email protected]
USOS code
Literature Fragments of folowing texts:
1. Martinich, A. P. 1984 A Theory of Metaphor. „Journal of Literary
Semantics”, 13, 35 – 56. Przedruk w: Martinich The Philosophy of
Language. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001: 447 – 58 2. Searle, J. R. 1979 Metaphor. W: Expression and Meaning: Studies in the
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Theory of Speech Acts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 76 – 116. 3. Davidson, D. 1978b What Metaphors Mean. „Critical Inquiry” 5, 31 - 47.
Przedruk w: Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation. Oxford: Clerendon
Press., 2001: 245 – 64.
4. Evans, V. and M. Green, Cognitive Linguistics. Edinburgh University
Press, 2006. Capter 6 “Metaphor nad Metonymy”, p. 286 – 327.
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other
Course title 26. Vegetarianism. Social and Cultural Aspects
Form* T
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2015/2016 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content The outline programme of the class will cover following topics:
1. Vegetarianism. A General Overview (Philosophy and Diet)
2. History of Vegetarianism
3. Philosophy of Vegetarianism
4. Vegetarianism and Ecology
Assessment scheme Marked paper
Lecturer Janusz Ciuciura
Contact [email protected]
USOS code
Literature Tristram Stuart, The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of
Vegetarianism from 1600 to Modern Times, W. W. Norton & Co.,
2007
Colin Spencer, Vegetarianism: A History, Da Capo Press, 2004
Andrew Linzey, Animal Theology, University of Illinois Press,
1995
Peter Singer, Animal Liberation, Pimlico, 1975
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other