Poslední úprava: Bc. Veronika Kučabová (03.01.2024)
The course will investigate the topics, problems, and doctrines of selected
philosophers from the 17th and 18th centuries. Original writings of Descartes, Hume, and Leibniz
will be studied
Poslední úprava: Bc. Veronika Kučabová (03.01.2024)
The course will investigate the topics, problems, and doctrines of selected
philosophers from the 17th and 18th centuries. Original writings of Descartes, Hume, and Leibniz
will be studied
Cíl předmětu -
Poslední úprava: Bc. Veronika Kučabová (03.01.2024)
The objectives of the course are (1) to provide an introduction to the shift-
relative to ancient Greek and Mediaeval philosophy-in philosophical problems that emerge with
so-called philosophical “modernity” and (2) to formulate the major issues in modern thought
that have become the target of the various so-called “post-modern” critiques of modernity.
Poslední úprava: Bc. Veronika Kučabová (03.01.2024)
The objectives of the course are (1) to provide an introduction to the shift-
relative to ancient Greek and Mediaeval philosophy-in philosophical problems that emerge with
so-called philosophical “modernity” and (2) to formulate the major issues in modern thought
that have become the target of the various so-called “post-modern” critiques of modernity.
Metody výuky -
Poslední úprava: Bc. Veronika Kučabová (03.01.2024)
The practicum of critically reading eminent philosophical texts will comprise the point
of departure for the study of the course’s objectives. On the basis of this practicum, the issues
treated by the texts will be formulated and the students’ encounter with them facilitated. Class
format will be Seminar.
Poslední úprava: Bc. Veronika Kučabová (03.01.2024)
The practicum of critically reading eminent philosophical texts will comprise the point
of departure for the study of the course’s objectives. On the basis of this practicum, the issues
treated by the texts will be formulated and the students’ encounter with them facilitated. Class
format will be Seminar.
Sylabus -
Poslední úprava: Bc. Veronika Kučabová (03.01.2024)
Part 1: Methodological Certainty in Philosophy
(Week 1-Week 4)
Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes
Part 2: Primacy of Sense Experience in All Knowledge
(Week 5-Week 8)
Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
Part 3: Symbolic Cognition and the Quest for Universal Science
(Week 9-Week 12)
Meditations on Knowledge, Truth and Ideas, On the Universal Characteristic, Monadology by G.W.
Leibniz
Recapitulation
(Week 13)
Poslední úprava: Bc. Veronika Kučabová (03.01.2024)
Part 1: Methodological Certainty in Philosophy
(Week 1-Week 4)
Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes
Part 2: Primacy of Sense Experience in All Knowledge
(Week 5-Week 8)
Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
Part 3: Symbolic Cognition and the Quest for Universal Science
(Week 9-Week 12)
Meditations on Knowledge, Truth and Ideas, On the Universal Characteristic, Monadology by G.W.
Leibniz
Recapitulation
(Week 13)
Podmínky zakončení předmětu -
Poslední úprava: Bc. Veronika Kučabová (03.01.2024)
Students will be evaluated based upon the following two distinct parameters:
(1) Participation (which includes, yet is not limited to attendance, in-class active participation). If you
are absent, please ask some of your classmates for any assignments or key discussion materials missed.
(2) A Final Oral Exam (dates and additional info will be provided in due course)
Poslední úprava: Bc. Veronika Kučabová (03.01.2024)
Students will be evaluated based upon the following two distinct parameters:
(1) Participation (which includes, yet is not limited to attendance, in-class active participation). If you
are absent, please ask some of your classmates for any assignments or key discussion materials missed.
(2) A Final Oral Exam (dates and additional info will be provided in due course)
Studijní opory -
Poslední úprava: Bc. Veronika Kučabová (03.01.2024)
The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, Volume II, trans. Cottingham, Stoothoff and Murdoch; A
Treatise of Human Nature, David Hume; Leibniz: Philosophical Essays, trans. Ariew and Garber
Poslední úprava: Bc. Veronika Kučabová (03.01.2024)
The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, Volume II, trans. Cottingham, Stoothoff and Murdoch; A
Treatise of Human Nature, David Hume; Leibniz: Philosophical Essays, trans. Ariew and Garber
