FSS:SAN216 Anthropology and Philosophy - Course Information
SAN216 Anthropology and Philosophy
Faculty of Social StudiesSpring 2014
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. Mgr. Martin Kanovský, PhD. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Eva Šlesingerová, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Ing. Soňa Enenkelová
Supplier department: Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies - Timetable
- Thu 11:30–13:00 P22
- Prerequisites
- ! OBOR ( SA )
No special knowledge in philosophy and/or history of philosophy is required. The course will be based on debates about problems, not on using encyclopaedic information - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 21 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- The aim of this course is to present some themes concerning the fruitful co-operation between (contemporary’ philosophy and anthropology. This course is not a survey of philosophical thoughts accompanied by anthropological illustrations and evidence: it is rather an attempt to put on the table some perspective ways how could these be fields made relevant one to another.
The main goals of this course are as follows:
to acquaint students with (some of) contemporary philosophical question, which might be possibly solved with the help from anthropological part;
furthermore, to study and grasp various ways how can anthropology accomplish that by means of its field work methods;
and finally, to learn to re-conceptualize, in anthropological ways, some of important general questions put forward by philosophical investigations. - Syllabus
- (1) Introductory Session
- (2) Anthropology and Epistemology 1: Epistemological Projects
- (3) Anthropology and Epistemology 2: Anthropological Contributions
- (4) Examples of Anthropological Field Works and Evidence Concerning Epistemology (Brasilia, India, Ukraine, etc.)
- (5) Anthropology and Moral Philosophy 1
- (6) Anthropology and Moral Philosophy 2
- (7) Examples of Anthropological Field Works and Evidence Concerning Moral Philosophy
- (8) Discourse and Analysis of Knowledge 1
- (9) Discourse and Analysis of Knowledge 2
- (10) Power, Subject, Subjectivization
- (11) Anthropological Analyses of Discourse and Power
- (12) Closing Debate 1
- (13) Closing Debate 2
- Literature
- STICH, Stephen, Shaun NICHOLS and Joseph WEINBERG. Meta-Skepticism: Meditations in Ethno-Epistemology. In LUPER, Steven. The Skeptics. 1st ed. Surrey: Ashgate. p. 227-247, 20 pp. ISBN 978-0-7546-1421-0. 2003. info
- FOUCAULT, Michel. Archeologie vědění. Praha: Herrmann & synové. 318 s. 2002. info
- HAIDT, Jonathan. The Emotional Dog and Its Rational Tail: A Social Intuitionist Approach to Moral Judgement. 20 pp. Psychological Review, 108/4, 814-834. ISSN 0033-295X. 2001. info
- FOUCAULT, Michel. Myšlení vnějšku. Translated by Čestmír Pelikán. V Praze: Herrmann & synové. 303 s. 1996. info
- Assessment methods
- lectures, class discussions, 3 short texts (precis) during the term, final concise essay, oral exam
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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