U291 Filosofie

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 1996
Extent and Intensity
3/0. 0 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium), z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Jiří Kučera (lecturer)
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
Syllabus
  • Philosophy as a specific form of approach to the world. Fields of philosophical inquiry.
  • Basic concepts and issues of the theory of knowledge.
  • Basic concepts and issues of ontology.
  • Basic concepts and issues of ethics.
  • Reductionism, physicalism. ``Inverted spectrum'' argument.
  • Functionalism, physicalism, Turing test.
  • Solipsism. ``Brain in the Vat'' argument. Excursion into the history of philosophy: Vedanta, Kumarila. Berkeley. Wittgenstein. Putnam.
  • ``Mind-body'' problem - Aristotle, Descartes, Eccles, Nagel.
  • Philosophical problems connected with the concepts of time motion and change. Excursion into the history of philosophy: Herakleitos, Parmenides, Zenon, Kant, McTaggart.
  • Problems of determinism and indeterminism; fatalism: freedom of the will. Excursion into the history of philosophy: Democritos, Aristotle, Stoicism, Epicuros, Newcomb's paradox.
  • Golden rule, Categorial imperative, ``Choice behind the veil of ignorance''. Excursion into the history of philosophy: Konfucius, Kant, Rawls.
  • Philosophical problems of the concept of truth. Correspondence, coherence, pragmatic and conventional theories of ``truth''. Excursion into the history of philosophy: Aristotle, Dewey, Poincare, Tarski, Quine, Popper.
  • Induction, deduction, hypothetico-deductive method, verificationism, falsificationism. ``Ad hoc'' hypotheses. Excursion into the history of philosophy: Aristotle, Hume, Popper.
  • Sophism, paralogism, fallacy, paradox, antinomy, Epimenides, language and metalanguage, logical types. Excursion into the history of philosophy: Sophists, Aristotle, Eubulides, Russell.
  • Origins of logic. Excursion into the history of philosophy: Aristotelian subject-predicate logic, propositional logic of stoicism.
Language of instruction
Czech
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 1997.
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