Selected Chapters from Logical Semantics Code Teacher František Gahér, prof. PhD. ECTS credits 5 Hours weekly 2 Prerequisites Semester 2/S Assessment 100% attendance and final paper Content Notions of the sufficient condition and the necessary condition. Conditionals sentences. The conditioned vector, the course of events vector and the time vector. The condition of promise and of legal regulation. Theory of causality – cause as condition – the notion of INUS. Description of causality versus explanation. The conditions in the realm of analytic propositions. The sufficient condition and the necessary condition in logical systems. Ellipse, anaphora, modifiers, supposition de re a de dicto, operator only. Explication and reconstruction of elliptical texts. Bibliography Bennett, J. (2003): A Philosophical Guide to Conditionals. Oxford: O. University Press. Duží, M. – Jespersen, B. – Materna, P. (2010): Procedural Semantics for Hyperintenzional Logic. Foundations and Applications of Transparent Intensional Logic. Dordrecht: Springer. Gomes, G. (2009): Are Necessary and Sufficient Conditions Converse Relations? Australasian Journal of Philosophy 87, 375-387. Lepore, E. (2000): Meaning and Argument. An Introduction to Logic Through Language. First ed. 2000, Blackwell. Geis, M. – W. (1993): Nonconditional Conditionals. Linguistics, Ohio State University. Lycan, W. (2001): Real Conditionals. (paperback 2005). Mackie, J. L.: Causes and Conditions. American Philosophical Quarteley, Vol. 2, N. 4, 1965. Rescher, N. (2007): Conditionals. A Bradford Book The MIT Press Cambridge, Mass., London. Sanford, D. H. (1989): If P, then Q: Conditionals and the Foundations of Reasoning. London: Routledge. Title History of analytic philosophy 1 Code Teacher prof. Mgr. Marián Zouhar, PhD. ECTS credits 5 weekly 2 Prerequisites none Semester 2/W, 3/W Assessment attendance and participation (10%), homework assignments (20%), one presentation (30%), essay (50%) Content This course introduces into the most fundamental representatives, the most important problems and key theories belonging to analytic
Bibliography Balashov, Y. – Rosenberg, A. (eds.): Philosophy of Science. Contemporary Readings. Routledge. Bird, A. (1998): Philosophy of Science. Routledge. Bunge, M. (2005): Philosophy of Science. From Problem to Theory. Vol. 1. Transaction Publishers. Bunge, M. (2005): Philosophy of Science. From Explanation to Justification. Vol. 2. Transaction Publishers. Chalmers, A. F. (1999): What Is This Thing Called Science? University of Queensland Press. Cover, J. A. – Curd, M. – Pincock, Ch. (ed.) (2012): Philosophy of Science: The Central Issues. W. W. Norton & Company. Ladyman, J. (2001): Understanding Philosophy of Science. Routledge. Sosa, E. – Tooley, M. (eds.): Causation. Oxford University Press. Stanley, K.W. (2014): An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science. Cambridge University Press. Title Thought Experiments in Philosophy Code Teacher Lukáš Bielik, Mgr., PhD., Assist. Prof. ECTS credits 5 Hours weekly 2 Prerequisites No Semester 3/L Assessment 50 % - active participation during the semester; 50 % the final assignment (an essay) Content Thought experiments are extremely interesting tools for exploring the worlds of possibility, impossibility or necessity. Sometimes they are funny, another time they push our minds at the extreme. They find their use in philosophy, science, and they even creep up in our everyday thinking. In this course, we are going to explore some of the most famous thought experiments in philosophy. We will try to uncover their logical structure, the assumptions they rest on, and evaluate their persuasiveness and epistemic power. The students will also be introduced into the main philosophical theories of thought experiments and to some interesting problems associated with the use of the imaginary cases. For each unit, there will be two thought experiments selected. The student is supposed to actively participate in the class units and submit the final essay (8-13 pages) on a selected philosophical thought experiment. Selection of TE: - The Ship of Theseus - Lucretius’ Spear - Hume’s Shades - Galileo’s Gravitational Balls - Descartes’ - Thomson’s Violinist
Cohen, M.R. & E. Nagel: An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method, 1936. Gahér, F.: Logika pre každého [Logic for Everyone], 4. vydanie, Iris, Bratislava, 2013. Hoover, K. & T. Donovan: The Elements of Social Scientific Thinking, 2004 [2011]. Kosso, P.: Summary of Scientific Method, Springer, 2011. Miller, L. & Brewer, J.D.: The A–Z of Social Research - A Dictionary of Key Social Science Research, 2003. Psillos, S.: Philosophy of Science A-Z, 2007. Kuhn, T. S.: Structure of Scientific Revolutions Karl Marx's Social-scientific Metatheory Code Teacher Mgr. Halas, PhD. ECTS credits 5 Hours weekly 2 Prerequisites none Semester 2/S or 3/S Assessment brief written assignments, active participation in class Content Learning outcomes: Students will become familiar with the fundaments of Marx's approach to social-scientific research. They will acquire a basic overview of the metatheoretical and methodological assumptions underlying Marx's view of society, and appropriate the terminology introduced by Marx into social thought and its methodology. Class syllabus: 1. Introduction to the sources of Marx's social theory 2. The development of Marx's theory: from the philosophical critique of religion and politics (“early Marx”) to the theory of modern society and critique of political economy (“late Marx”) 3. Principles, problems and variants of the “materialist view of history” 4. Contradictions between Marx's metatheory and scientific practice 5. Marx's influence on 20th century social theory and its methodology Bibliography Recommended literature: LINDNER, U.: Marx und die Philosophie. Stuttgart : Schmetterling Verlag, 2013. MARX, K. Grundrisse. Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy (Rough Draft). London : Penguin, 1973. MARX, K. Writings. London : Penguin, 1975. MARX, K. Capital I: A Critique of Political Economy. Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1976. MARX, K. – ENGELS, F. The German Ideology. [online] MARX, K. A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. [online] SAYER, D.: The Violence of Abstraction. London : Basil Blackwell, 1987.