FI:U291 Philosophy - Course Information
U291 Philosophy
Faculty of InformaticsAutumn 1997
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0. 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
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, M-SS)
- 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
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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