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Philosophy

(Aesthetics, Ethics, and Logic)

Summer semester 2019/2020

Before choosing the courses read carefully the following notes:

• You can include the courses from the list below into your LAS for the

winter semester 2019/20.

• The list is in alphabetic order – consult the whole list before taking

decision.

• All courses are prepared by professors of the Department of Philosophy

University of Łódź (Poland).

• The courses are usually in English, but you can find also some courses in

other languages (German, Spanish, Italian, and Russian).

• The list does not comprise schedules of classes. In order to fix the

schedule contact directly the lecturer (the e-mails are included).

• There are two forms of the courses: regular seminars for at least three

students and tutorials for one or two students (more flexible form of

classes). In both cases students receive the same number of ECTS points

(6).

• In case of any doubts do not hesitate to contact the Erasmus coordinator

at the Department of Philosophy University of Łódź, prof. Janusz

Maciaszek ([email protected]).

List of courses (descriptions and further details are below the list)

1. Agency and Free Will. An Introduction to Modern Philosophy of Action

2. Bad Science or Pseudoscience

3. Descartes y Pascal como dos caras de ser humano. Tipología según el

orden de la razón y el corazón

mailto:[email protected]

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4. Essentialism and Constructivism in Feminism

5. Filosofía política europea - republicanismo

6. Hauptströmungen der europäischen Ethik

7. History of Logic

8. Introduction to Classical Philosophy

9. Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology

10. Introduction to Philosophy of Religion

11. Metaphor is the Core of Thinking

12. Metaphysics and Ontology

13. Methodology of Social Research

14. Number Sense. Introduction to Numerical and Spatial Cognition

15. Philosophical Assumptions of Transhumanism

16. Philosophy of Language

17. Speech Act Theory

18. Storia d' immortalità da Omero al Rinascimento

19. Mythology and Philosophy in Richard Wagner’s Musical Works

20. Субстанция как сюжет метафизики

Course title 1. Agency and Free Will. An Introduction to

Modern Philosophy of Action Form Seminar or tutorial

Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor) / graduate (master) / doctoral degree

Year/semester 2019/2020 summer semester

ECTS 6

Language of

instruction

English

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No. of hours 30

Course content What is action?

Actions and events

Actions and causality

Reasons of actions

Intentionality

Agency

The problem of free will. Are we free to act?

Assessment scheme Regular attendance, activity, and presentation or short essay

Lecturer

Contact

Janusz Maciaszek

[email protected]

Scientific interests Philosophy of language, philosophy of action, theory of metaphor,

cognitive science

USOS code 0200-ERAS146

Literature 1. Davidson, D. 2001 Essays on Actions and Events. Oxford:

Clerendon Press. Second edition.

2. Moya, C. 1990 Philosophy of Action. An Introduction. Polity

Press.

Field of study/

programme

Philosophy

Course title 2. Bad Science or Pseudoscience? A Critical

and Historical Introduction To Demarcation

Problem Form Tutorial

Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor)


ECTS 6

Language of

instruction

English

No. of hours 30

Course content The problem of demarcation, that is a problem of how to distinguish

science from non-science, has recently become a serious social issue,

boosting not only a theoretical research but also a debate about

practical ways to cope with it. Antivaccination movements,

creationism, historical denialism are all examples of epistemological

and methodological misunderstandings that cannot be simply

dismissed or ridiculed. We will examine the way bad science and

pseudoscience is constructed and what could be used as theoretical and

practical prompts to diagnose them.

Assessment scheme Regular attendance, activity, and presentation


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Lecturer

Contact

Prof. Elżbieta Jung

Marcin Jerzy Leszczyński, MA

[email protected]

Scientific interests philosophy of science, history of science, science studies


Literature 1. P. Plait, Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed,

from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax", Wiley 2002

2. M. Pigliucci, M. Boudry, Philosophy of Pseudoscience:

Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem, UCP 2013

3. K. Schrader-Frechette, Tainted: How Philosophy of Science Can

Expose Bad Science, OUP 2014

Field of study/

programme

Philosophy

Course title 3. Descartes y Pascal como dos caras de ser

humano. Tipología según el orden de la razón

y el corazón. (Descartes and Pascal as two

faces of being human. Typology according to

the order of reason and the heart) Form Tutorial



ECTS 6

Language of

instruction

Español

No. of hours 30

Course content Lo finito y lo Infinito. El conocimiento y la fe. La ciencia y las

emociones. Las razones de la razón y las razones del corazón. La

seriedad y la diversión. La confianza y el miedo. El optimismo y el

pesimismo. La alma y el cuerpo. Lo masculino y lo feminino. La vida y

la muerte.

Assessment scheme Presencia. Discusión. Ensayo.

Lecturer

Contact

Prof. Tomasz Stegliński

[email protected]

Scientific interests Historia de la filosofía. Filosofía moderna. Psicología. Historia del arte.


Literature Pascal, Pensamientos, http://www.biblioteca.org.ar/libros/89354.pdf

Descartes, Meditaciones acerca de la filosofía primera,

https://mercaba.org/Filosofia/Descartes/med_met_alfaguara.PDF

Field of study/

programme

Philosophy


http://www.biblioteca.org.ar/libros/89354.pdf

https://mercaba.org/Filosofia/Descartes/med_met_alfaguara.PDF

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Course title 4. Essentialism and Constructivism in

Feminism Form Tutorial



ECTS 6

Language of

instruction English

No. of hours 30

Course content Essentialism and constructivism have a long tradition in philosophy

and these opposite positions determine also perspectives in feminism

or – to be more precise – in feminisms, as there are: psychoanalytic

feminism, Marxist feminism, evolutionary feminism, post-modern

feminism, radical feminism, social feminism, and some more…

During the seminar we will discuss the various forms of feminism and

analyze the role of essentialist and constructivist views in them. What

is more, we will not limit our considerations to the opposition between

essentialism and anti-essentialism, but will also see that the feminisms

listed above can be interconnected and they analyze many different

social, cultural, economic, and political phenomena.

Assessment scheme Participation in the course based on knowledge of assigned texts plus

an essay.

Lecturer

Contact

Prof. Elżbieta Jung

Joanna Papiernik, PhD

[email protected]; [email protected]

Scientific interests Premodern philosophy, history of science, feminism


Literature 1. What is Feminism? https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminist-

philosophy/

Alison Stone, Essentialism and Anti-Essentialism in Feminist

Philosophy, http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/34/2/Microsoft_Word_-

_E9130088.pdf

2. D. Garison, Karen Horney and Feminism, Signs, vol. 6, No. 4

(Summer, 1981), pp. 672-691.

3. Margaret Bernston, The political economy of women's liberation.

Monthly Review. Monthly Review Foundation. 21 (4), pp. 13–27.

4. Simone de Beauvoir’s, The Second Sex, translated by H. M.

Pashley, Harmondsworth 1984.

5. P.A. Gowaty, Sexual Natures: How Feminism Changed

Evolutionary Biology, Signs, Vol. 28, No. 3, Gender and Science: New

Issues (Spring 2003), pp. 901-921.

Field of study/

programme Philosophy



https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminist-philosophy/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminist-philosophy/

http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/34/2/Microsoft_Word_-_E9130088.pdf

http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/34/2/Microsoft_Word_-_E9130088.pdf

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Course title 5. Filosofía política europea – republicanismo

(European Political Philosophy – Republicanism) Form Tutorial

Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor) / graduate (master)

Year/semester 2019/2020 cuatrimestre de verano (summer semester)

ECTS 6

Language of

instruction

Spanish

No. of hours 30

Course content El objetivo del curso es impartir los conocimientos acerca de la

filosofía política europea, y más precisamente de la tradición del

republicanismo desde la Antigüedad hasta la actualidad. La evolución

del pensamiento republicano se verà á través de la lectura de los textos

de Aristóteles, Kant y Hannah Arendt.

Assessment scheme

Lecturer

Contact

Joanna Miksa, PhD

[email protected]

Scientific interests Etica, filosofía práctica de Immanuel Kant, filosofía política de

América Latina, ética aplicada


Literature Aristóteles, Ética nicomáquea.

Kant, Metafísica de las costumbres.

Hannah Arendt, La condición humana.

Field of study/

programme

Filosofía

Course title 6. Hauptströmungen der europäischen Ethik

(Main Currents of the European Ethics) Form Tutorial

Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / doctoral degree


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

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grundlegender Bedeutung: ein teleologischer 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 (erbracht durch Referat etc.)

Lecturer Prof. Andrzej Maciej Kaniowski

Contact andrzej.kaniowski@ uni.lodz.pl


Literature Ausgewählte Passagen und Auszüge aus den Schriften von Aristotle,

Thomas Aquinas, Kant und Mill.

Field of study/

programme

Philosophy

Course title 7. History of Logic

Form Tutorial



ECTS 6

Language of

instruction

English

No. of hours 30

Course content The history of logic studies the development of logical ideas from

pre-Socratic philosophers to the present. The intent of the course is

to provide students with a thorough knowledge of the development.

Details

I. Logic in Ancient Philosophy

1. Pre-Socratic philosophers

2. Soctares and Plato

3. Aristotle's Organon

4. Megarians, Stoics and Skepticism

II. Medieval Logic

1. Boethius and Logica vetus

2. St. Anselm and Peter Abelard

3. William of Ockham and his Summa logicae

4. Modalities in the Middle Ages

III. Renaissance

1. Petrus Ramus

2. Juan Luis Vives and the logical symbolism

IV. Post-Renaissance

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1. Port-Royal Logic

2. G.W. Leibniz and symbolic logic

3. J.H. Lambert and L. Euler

V. The 19th century logic

1. A. De Morgan and his Formal Logic

2. G. Boole and mathematical logic

3. G. Frege and classical symbolic logic

4. G. Cantor’s set theory

VI. Logic of the 20th centuary

1. Principia Mathematica

2. Zermelo-Fraenkel Set Theory

3. Lvov-Warsaw School

4. K. Goedel and his contribution to mathemathical logic

5. Non-classical Logics

Assessment

scheme

activity or short essay

Lecturer

Contact

Janusz Ciuciura, PhD

[email protected]

Scientific interests Logic, methodology, philosophy


Literature 1. Bochenski, J.M., A History of Formal Logic, Notre Dame Press,

1961.

2. Gabbay, Dov and John Woods, (eds), Handbook of the History of

Logic, Elsevier, 2004.

3. Haaparanta, Leila (ed.), The Development of Modern Logic

Oxford University Press, 2009.

4. Kneale, William and Martha, The development of logic, Oxford

University Press, 1962.

Field of study/

programme

Philosophy

Course title Introduction to Classical Philosophy

Form Tutorial or Seminar

Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s)


ECTS 6

Language of

instruction

English

No. of hours 30

Course content The objective of the course is to acquaint the student with Ancient and Medieval

philosophical standpoints that made up and developed the doctrines of Plato And

Aristotle, gradually transforming them into a more or less uniform teaching, which

dominated philosophy until the beginning of the Enlightenment

1. Plato, Timaeus, 40A-54D, The Republic, book 7,

2. Aristotle, Metaphysics, book 7,


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3. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, book 1

4. Augustine, On the Free Will (fragment)

5. Joannes Scot Eriugena, On the division of Natire (fragment)

6. Peter Abailard, Ethics (fragment)

7. Avicenna, The Deliveramce (fragment)

8. Averroes, On Religion & Philosophy (fragment)

9. Thomas Aquinas, On Being and Essence (fragment)

10. John Duns Scotus, Ordinatio (fragment)

11. William Ockham, Commentary on the Sentences (fragment)

Assessment scheme 3 - 3+ (E-D) - participation in classes based on knowledge of assigned texts

4 - 5 (C-A) - participaion in classes based on knowledge of assigned texts plus a

positively graded semester paper.

Evaluation criteria for semester papers:

1. Coherent, lucid and consitent presentation of material

2. Independent opinions

3. Complete and precise argumentation

4. Selection of relevant source materials (both primary and secondary) and their

correct use.

5. Proper construction of the text: good proportions of introduction and conclusions

to the main part, sufficient and correct references/notes.

Lecturer

Contact

Prof. Marek Gensler

[email protected]

Scientific interests Ancient & Medieval philosophy, Philosophy of religion, Philosophy

of nature


Literature Plato, Timaeus, 40A-54D, The Republic, book 7, Aristotle, Metaphysics, book 7,

Nicomachean Ethics, book 1, Hyman & Walsh, Philosophy in the Middle Ages,

Field of study Philosophy

Course title 9. Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology

Form Tutorial

Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / postgraduate

(doctoral)


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

Assessment scheme Active participation

Lecturer

Contact

Prof. Marek Nowak

[email protected]

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Scientific interests Mathematical logic and set theory,

Philosophy of language: pragmatics

Epistemology


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


Course title 10. Introduction to Philosophy of Religion Form Tutorial



ECTS 6

Language of

instruction

English

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 deities

- Contemporary atheistic ideologies

Assessment scheme Regular attendance, activity

Lecturer

Contact

Tomasz Sieczkowski, PhD

[email protected]

Scientific interests Philosophy of Religion, Epistemology, Social and Political Philosophy,

Philosophy of Popular Culture


Literature Chad Meister, 2009, Introducing Philosophy of Religion, London:

Routledge.

Michael Murray, Michael Rea, 2008, An Introduction to the

Philosophy of Religion, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Richard Dawkins, 2006, The God Delusion.

Field of study/

programme

Philosophy

Course title 11. Metaphor Is the Core of Thinking

Form Tutorial


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ECTS 6

Language of

instruction

English

No. of hours 30

Course content Metaphors pervade human (and maybe not only human) thinking. The

course offers a survey of functions and effects of metaphors in various

fields: from science to ideology. Metaphors play the role of lens

through which we see the world; we shall investigate how their

features influence our cognition.


Lecturer

Contact

Dorota Rybarkiewicz, PhD

[email protected]

Scientific interests Philosophy of language, pragmatics, theory of metaphor, cognitive

science


Literature Frigg R. 2010. Models and Fiction. Synthese, 172 (2): 251-268.

Hofstadter D. R. 2001. Epilogue: Analogy as the Core of Cognition. W: D. Gentner,

K. J. Holyoak, B. K. Kokinov.The Analogical Mind: Perspectives from

Cognitive Science: 499 -539.

Indurkhya B. Ojha A. 2013. An Empirical Study on the Role of Perceptual Similarity

in Visual Metaphors and Creativity. Metaphor and Symbol, 28: 233-253.

Field of study/


Course title 12. Metaphysics and Ontology

Form Tutorial



ECTS 6

Language of

instruction

English

No. of hours 30

Course content During the classes we take up the following issues:

1) What is an ontological atom (first substance, monad, fact);

2) different ways of being;

3) ontological categories;

4) principles of ontology versus principles of sciences

and others questions interesting for students.

Assessment scheme Regular attendance, activity, and presentation of short essay

Lecturer

Contact

Prof. Janusz Kaczmarek

[email protected]

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Scientific interests Ontology, cognitive science, formal tools in philosophy, philosophical

anthropology


Literature Aristotle, Categories, (different editions),

Copleston F., History of Philosophy, (different editions)

Leibniz, Monadology, (various translations),

Kaczmarek J., (2016), Ontological Atom. Atom of Substance, [in:]

Przegląd Filozoficzny (this paper is prepared in English version – for

students)

Field of study/

programme

Philosophy

Course title 13. Methodology of Social Research

Form Tutorial



ECTS 6

Language of

instruction

English

No. of hours 30

Course content This course is designed for students who are interested in the

methodology of social research. The course extends the general

methodology (methods) of science. It provides an overview of the

key elements of social research methods and emphasizes their

practical applications.

Details

I. What is Methodology of Social Research? - and What is Research?

1. Objectives and Motivation of Social Research

2. Types of Social Research

3. Significance of Research

II. Research and Scientific Methods

1. Research Process

2. Components of Research

3. Criteria of Good Research

4. Purposes of Research

III. Methods: one or many?

1. Methods of data collection

2. How to establish the validity and reliability of a research

instrument?

IV. Ethical issues

V. Units of Analysis and Potential errors involving misuse of unit of

analysis

Assessment

scheme

activity or short essay

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Lecturer

Contact

Janusz Ciuciura, PhD

[email protected]

Scientific interests Logic, methodology, philosophy


Literature 1. Leonard Bickman, Debra J. Rog, Handbook of Applied Social

Research Methods, SAGE, 1998.

2. Earl R. Babbie, The Practice of Social Research, Wadsworth, 2010

Field of study/

programme

Philosophy

Course title 14. Number Sense. Introduction to Numerical and

Spatial Cognition Form Tutorial

Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor) / graduate (master) / postgraduate (doctoral)


ECTS 6

Language of

instruction

English

No. of hours 30

Course content The course will cover the following topics:

Concept of number in mathematics and in cognitive science

• Numerosity processing in animals and human infants

• Ethnolinguistic and cultural variance of number systems

• Number sense vs spatial sense

• Cognitive correlations between number and space: SNARC effect

• Core systems of numerosity procesing: Approximate Number

System, Parallel Individuation System

Relationship between exact number concepts and systems of core

knowledge

Proces of exact number acquisition: bootstrapping, metaphorical

mappings, recursive structures of generative grammar

Neural bases of numerosity processing abilities

The issue of adequate numerosity representation in cognitive

system: symbolism, associationism, conceptual spaces

Assessment scheme Presentation or short essay

Lecturer

Contact

Aleksander Gemel, PhD

[email protected]

Scientific interests • Cognitive science, philosophy of language, philosophy of

mathematics

• Geometric models of conceptual representations

• Relationship of basic numerical representations with innate systems

of core knowledge


Literature • Dehaene S., (1997). The number sense: How the mind creates

mathematics, New York: Oxford University Press

• Carey S., (2009). The Origin of Concepts. New York: Oxford

University Press.


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• Kadosh R. C., Dowker A., (Eds.). The Oxford handbook of

numerical cognition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.

• Campbell J. I. D., (Ed.). (2005). Handbook of mathematical

cognition. New York: Psychology Press.

• Dehaene, S., & Brannon, E. (Eds.). (2011). Space, time and number

in the brain: Searching for the foundations of mathematical

thought. San Diego: Elsevier Academic Press.

Field of study/

programme

Philosophy

Course title 15. Philosophical Assumptions of Transhumanism

Form Tutorial



ECTS 6

Language of

instruction

English

No. of hours 30

Course content Transhumanism is an international intellectual movement involving a

broad set of ideas centered around the phenomenon of technological

progress and its future consequences (both welcomed and

unwelcomed). As such it implicitly relates to many philosophical

assumptions. The course discusses their anthropological, political, and

religious aspects.

Assessment scheme Regular attendance, activity, and oral assessment

Lecturer

Contact

Dawid Misztal, PhD

[email protected]

Scientific interests Philosophical anthropology, Transhumanism and Posthumanism

USOS code 0200-189

Literature 1. R. Ranisch and S. L. Sorgner (eds.) [2014], Trans- and

Posthumanism. An Introduction, Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang

GmbH

2. G. R. Hansell and W. Grassie (eds.) [2011], H+/–

Transhumanism and its Critics, Philadelphia: Metanexus

Institute.

3. J. Hughes, [2004], Citizen Cyborg. Why Democratic Societies

Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future,

Cambridge, MA: Westview Press.

4. R. Barbrook and A. Cameron [1996], Californian Ideology, in:

“Science as Culture”, Vol. 6, pp. 44-72.

Field of study/

programme

Philosophy

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Course title 16. Philosophy of Language

Form Tutorial



ECTS 6

Language of

instruction

English

No. of hours 30

Course content The aim of the couse is to present brief the history and the main

problems of the philosophy of language:

Plato and Aristotle on language

J. Locke and psychological theory of meaning

J. S. Mill on denotation and connotation

G. Frege on sense and denotation

B. Russell and definite descriptions

The problem of proper names: descriptionism versus

millianism

Causal theory of naming (S. Kripke and H. Putnam)

J. Austin and speech acts theory

P. Grice and rules of conversation

Literal versus non-literal use of language


Lecturer

Contact

Prof. Janusz Maciaszek

[email protected]

Scientific interests Philosophy of language, philosophy of action, theory of metaphor,

cognitive science


Literature 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

Course title 17. Speech Act Theory

Form Tutorial

Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / postgraduate

(doctoral)


ECTS 6


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Language of

instruction

English

No. of hours 30

Course content Frege's theory of meaning

Performative vs constative sentences

Definition of the performative sentence

A syntactic criterion of performative sentences

The theory of infelicities in performance of the performative

utterances

Locutionary, perlocutionary and illocutionary acts due to Austin

Illocutionary force as a constituent of meaning of a sentence

Acts of utterance, referring, predication and expressing a proposition

due to Searle

Elementary illocutionary act of Searle

Types of compound illocutionary acts

The necessary conditions for successful performance of promise,

request, statement, thanking, warning, advice

The taxonomy of illocutionary acts due to Searle

Six parameters of illocutionary force

The taxonomy of elementary illocutionary acts (illocutionary verbs)

in the form of trees due to Vanderveken

Elements of illocutionary logic of Vanderveken

Assessment scheme Active participation

Lecturer

Contact

Prof. Marek Nowak

[email protected]

Scientific interests Mathematical logic and set theory,

Philosophy of language: pragmatics

Epistemology


Literature • J. L. Austin, How to Do Things with Words, Oxford,

Clarendon Press 1962

• J. L. Austin, Performative Utterances [in:] J. L. Austin,

Philosophical Papers, Oxford UP 1979, pp. 233-252

• J. R. Searle, Speech Acts, Cambridge UP 1969

• J. R. Searle, Expression and Meaning, Cambridge UP 1979

• J. R. Searle, D. Vanderveken, Foundations of illocutionary

logic, Cambridge UP 1985

• D. Vanderveken, Meaning and Speech Acts, Cambridge UP

1990-91


Course title 18. Storia d' immortalità da Omero al

Rinascimento (History of Immortality from

Homer to Renaissance) Form Tutorial

Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor)

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ECTS 6

Language of

instruction Italian

No. of hours 30

Course content L'immortalità dell'anima è una delle questioni più importanti e più

discusse quasi dall'inizio dello sviluppo della filosofia europea. Già in

Omero troviamo un'espressione letteraria di interesse in questo

argomento, poi, nella scrittura filosofica della Grecia classica, il

problema acquista la grande rilevanza, specialmente nelle speculazioni

di Platone. Nel cristianesimo sull’immortalità discutono i Padri,

incluso s. Agostino, ma le grandi polemiche sorgono in connessione

con l'interpretazione del pensiero di Aristotele fatta da Averroè,

secondo cui solo un intelletto agente, unico per tutta la specie umana, è

immortale. In difesa dell'immortalità individuale, rispondendo agli

averroisti, i trattati scrivono (tra gli altri) s. Tomaso e Egidio Romano.

Tuttavia, la storia non si finisce qui, le polemiche sull'immortalità

dell’anima umana sono molto vive durnate Rinascimento; la panorama

del problema rimane complessa: da un lato Marsilio Ficino scrive una

impressionante giustificazione filosofica dell'immortalità individuale,

cioè Theologia Platonica, dall’altro, Pietro Pomponazzi, in suo

Tractatus de immortalitate animae, convince che non si può

dimostrare l’ immortalità umana con gli argomenti filosofici. Lo scopo

del corso: analizzare alcuni testi filosofici sull'immortalità dell'anima e

la loro importanza nella storia di filosofia europea.

Assessment scheme Partecipazione alle lezioni e lettura dei testi assegnati; breve saggio

Lecturer

Contact Joanna Papiernik, PhD

[email protected]

Scientific interests Storia di filosofia antica, medievale e rinascimentale; storia della

scienza, platonismo


Literature 1. Omero, Iliade e Odissea (frammenti)

2. Platone, Fedone, Fedro, Reppublica (frammenti)

3. Aurelio Agostino d'Ippona, Soliloquia, De immortalitate animae

(frammenti)

4. San Tomaso, Summa contra Gentiles, Summa Theologiae

(frammenti)

5. Marsilio Ficino, Theologia Platonica (frammenti); Pietro

Pomponazzi, De immortalitate animae

Field of study/


Course title 19. Mythology and Philosophy in Richard

Wagner’s Musical Works Form Tutorial


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ECTS 6

Language of

instruction

English

No. of hours 30

Course content Wagner’s inspirations from German myths and contemporary

philosophy resulted iun highly original librettos which he used to write

himself. His psychological and sociological insights are very

interesting and can still be applied to contemporary circumstances. His

music is a tool to communicate these philosophical ideas to the public.

The content of the course includes a study of the cycle Ring of

Nibelung, Tristan and Isolde, Mastersingers from Nuremberg and

Parsifal

Assessment scheme Regular attendance and activity

Lecturer

Contact

Prof. Marek Rosiak

[email protected]

Scientific interests Phenomenology, transcendental philosophy, ontology, epistemology,

philosophy of music


Literature Librettos of: The Ring of Nibelung, Tristan and Isolde, Mastersingers

from Nuremberg and Parsifal

Field of study/

programme

Philosophy

Course title 20. Субстанция как сюжет метафизики (Substance as the subject of metaphysics)

Form Tutorial



ECTS 6

Language of

instruction

русский

No. of hours 30

Course content Основные рассуждения касающиеся субстанции как самого

главного понятия классической философии Запада

Assessment scheme Регулярное участвование в докладе

Lecturer

Contact

Prof. Marek Rosiak

[email protected]

Scientific interests феноменология, онтолгия, метафизика



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Literature Аристотель,Категории

Декарт,Mедитации

Локк, Рассуждения об человеческм уме

Лэйбниц, Монадология

Field of study/

programme

философиа

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