Contemporary Theoretical Philosophy A - AFS200008

• Title: Současná teoretická filosofie A
• Guaranteed by: Institute of Philosophy and Religious Studies (21-UFAR)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2024
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unlimited / unlimited (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: Czech
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Additional information: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=16621
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: doc. Daniele De Santis, Dott. Ric.; BcA. Sybren Heyndels, M.A., Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): doc. Daniele De Santis, Dott. Ric.; BcA. Sybren Heyndels, M.A., Ph.D.

Annotation

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Last update: Mokrejšová Eva, Mgr. (10.09.2024)

Czech

FALL 2024-2025
Charles University
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
(NOTA BENE: This is not a class for Erasmus students)

Daniele De Santis - Sybren Heyndels

Office hours:
D. De Santis: Thursday 16:00-17:00 Room: 223
S. Heyndels: Wednesday 13:00-14:00 Room: 220

Emails: [e-mail] / [e-mail]

Contemporary Theoretical Philosophy A

Language and Thought:
An Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy

Lecture: Thursday 9:10-10:45 (Room: 217)

Seminar: Thursday 12:30-14:05 (Room: 217)


1. General Description and Aims of the Module

The present module offers an introduction to contemporary philosophy, with special focus on the problems of the language-thought relation. To this end, different philosophical traditions and major representatives of these traditions will be presented in the morning lectures and more closely read and discussed in the afternoon reading seminar. Among the questions which will lead our discussions are: What is the relation/difference between thought and language? Which one should be granted priority over the other? Is language meant to just express our thoughts? Or should we accept the claim to the effect that there cannot be any thought without language? To what extent does language, its intrinsic normativity and structure, shape and form our experience? Is it possible to speak of pre-linguistic and pre-predicative experience? Or is this notion a contradiction in terms?

Last update: De Santis Daniele, doc., Dott. Ric. (03.10.2024)

Course completion requirements

2. Requirements

 

Requirements for completing the course:

 

(a) Regular attendance of both lectures and seminars (students should read in advance the material for each class). 2 absences maximum are allowed.

 

(b) Active participation in class (which implies that students read the material beforehand)

 

(c) The third requirement can be fulfilled in two alternative manners: 

 

-       Either by doing a presentation in one of the seminars. The handout for the presentation should be submitted one week in advance, i.e. no later than the Thursday before your presentation is scheduled (the structure of the handout should be discussed with the teacher beforehand). 

 

-       Or by writing a paper on a topic of your choice from those discussed during the semester. The deadline for submission of the paper via email by January 26, 2025 (more information about the paper will be provided in due time by the teachers)

Last update: De Santis Daniele, doc., Dott. Ric. (11.09.2024)

Literature

3. Essential Bibliography

(all the texts will be available on Moodle)

 

 

F. Nietzsche, On the prejudices of philosophers

 

E. Husserl, Logical Investigations (selection). London: Routledge

 

H. Arendt,  The Human Condition (selection). Chicago: University of Chicago Press

 

M. Heidegger, Being and Time (selection). New York: SUNY

 

J. Derrida, Signature Event Context. From Magins of Philosophy. London, Routledge, pp. 307-330

 

G. Frege, 1956 (1918). The thought: A logical inquiry. Mind, 65(259), pp. 289-311.

 

L. Wittgenstein, 2009 (1953). Philosophical investigations. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. (selection)

 

P.F. Strawson, 1949. Truth. Analysis, 9(6), pp. 83-97.

 

G. E. M. Anscombe, 1957. Intention. Oxford: Blackwell. (selection)

 

R. Brandom, 1983. Asserting. Noûs, 17(4) pp. 637-650.

Last update: De Santis Daniele, doc., Dott. Ric. (03.10.2024)

Teaching methods

 

4. Tentative Calendar

(More Information on the Moodle page of the Class)

 

Week 1 – Introduction (preparation of the seminar calendar)

 

Week 2 – The Masters of suspicion

 

Week 3 – G. Frege

 

Week 4 – L. Wittgenstein

 

Week 5 – Phenomenology. Part 1: E. Husserl

 

Week 6 – P.F. Strawson

 

Week 7 – Phenomenology. Part 2: M. Heidegger

 

Week 8 – G.E.M. Anscombe

 

Week 9 – J. Derrida

 

Week 10 – H. Arendt 

 

Week 11 – R. Brandom

 

Week 12 – Recapitulation and Q&A

Last update: De Santis Daniele, doc., Dott. Ric. (18.09.2024)