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Philosophy
(Aesthetics, Ethics, and Logic)
Summer semester 2019/2020
Before choosing the courses read carefully the following notes:
• You can include the courses from the list below into your LAS for the
winter semester 2019/20.
• The list is in alphabetic order – consult the whole list before taking
decision.
• All courses are prepared by professors of the Department of Philosophy
University of Łódź (Poland).
• The courses are usually in English, but you can find also some courses in
other languages (German, Spanish, Italian, and Russian).
• The list does not comprise schedules of classes. In order to fix the
schedule contact directly the lecturer (the e-mails are included).
• There are two forms of the courses: regular seminars for at least three
students and tutorials for one or two students (more flexible form of
classes). In both cases students receive the same number of ECTS points
(6).
• In case of any doubts do not hesitate to contact the Erasmus coordinator
at the Department of Philosophy University of Łódź, prof. Janusz
Maciaszek ([email protected]).
List of courses (descriptions and further details are below the list)
1. Agency and Free Will. An Introduction to Modern Philosophy of Action
2. Bad Science or Pseudoscience
3. Descartes y Pascal como dos caras de ser humano. Tipología según el
orden de la razón y el corazón
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4. Essentialism and Constructivism in Feminism
5. Filosofía política europea - republicanismo
6. Hauptströmungen der europäischen Ethik
7. History of Logic
8. Introduction to Classical Philosophy
9. Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology
10. Introduction to Philosophy of Religion
11. Metaphor is the Core of Thinking
12. Metaphysics and Ontology
13. Methodology of Social Research
14. Number Sense. Introduction to Numerical and Spatial Cognition
15. Philosophical Assumptions of Transhumanism
16. Philosophy of Language
17. Speech Act Theory
18. Storia d' immortalità da Omero al Rinascimento
19. Mythology and Philosophy in Richard Wagner’s Musical Works
20. Субстанция как сюжет метафизики
Course title 1. Agency and Free Will. An Introduction to
Modern Philosophy of Action Form Seminar or tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor) / graduate (master) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2019/2020 summer semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
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No. of hours 30
Course content What is action?
Actions and events
Actions and causality
Reasons of actions
Intentionality
Agency
The problem of free will. Are we free to act?
Assessment scheme Regular attendance, activity, and presentation or short essay
Lecturer
Contact
Janusz Maciaszek
Scientific interests Philosophy of language, philosophy of action, theory of metaphor,
cognitive science
USOS code 0200-ERAS146
Literature 1. Davidson, D. 2001 Essays on Actions and Events. Oxford:
Clerendon Press. Second edition.
2. Moya, C. 1990 Philosophy of Action. An Introduction. Polity
Press.
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
Course title 2. Bad Science or Pseudoscience? A Critical
and Historical Introduction To Demarcation
Problem Form Tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor)
Year/semester 2019/2020 summer semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content The problem of demarcation, that is a problem of how to distinguish
science from non-science, has recently become a serious social issue,
boosting not only a theoretical research but also a debate about
practical ways to cope with it. Antivaccination movements,
creationism, historical denialism are all examples of epistemological
and methodological misunderstandings that cannot be simply
dismissed or ridiculed. We will examine the way bad science and
pseudoscience is constructed and what could be used as theoretical and
practical prompts to diagnose them.
Assessment scheme Regular attendance, activity, and presentation
4
Lecturer
Contact
Prof. Elżbieta Jung
Marcin Jerzy Leszczyński, MA
Scientific interests philosophy of science, history of science, science studies
USOS code 0200-ERAS192
Literature 1. P. Plait, Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed,
from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax", Wiley 2002
2. M. Pigliucci, M. Boudry, Philosophy of Pseudoscience:
Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem, UCP 2013
3. K. Schrader-Frechette, Tainted: How Philosophy of Science Can
Expose Bad Science, OUP 2014
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
Course title 3. Descartes y Pascal como dos caras de ser
humano. Tipología según el orden de la razón
y el corazón. (Descartes and Pascal as two
faces of being human. Typology according to
the order of reason and the heart) Form Tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor) / graduate (master) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2019/2020 summer semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
Español
No. of hours 30
Course content Lo finito y lo Infinito. El conocimiento y la fe. La ciencia y las
emociones. Las razones de la razón y las razones del corazón. La
seriedad y la diversión. La confianza y el miedo. El optimismo y el
pesimismo. La alma y el cuerpo. Lo masculino y lo feminino. La vida y
la muerte.
Assessment scheme Presencia. Discusión. Ensayo.
Lecturer
Contact
Prof. Tomasz Stegliński
Scientific interests Historia de la filosofía. Filosofía moderna. Psicología. Historia del arte.
USOS code 0200-ERAS186
Literature Pascal, Pensamientos, http://www.biblioteca.org.ar/libros/89354.pdf
Descartes, Meditaciones acerca de la filosofía primera,
https://mercaba.org/Filosofia/Descartes/med_met_alfaguara.PDF
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
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Course title 4. Essentialism and Constructivism in
Feminism Form Tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor) / graduate (master) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2019/2020 summer semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction English
No. of hours 30
Course content Essentialism and constructivism have a long tradition in philosophy
and these opposite positions determine also perspectives in feminism
or – to be more precise – in feminisms, as there are: psychoanalytic
feminism, Marxist feminism, evolutionary feminism, post-modern
feminism, radical feminism, social feminism, and some more…
During the seminar we will discuss the various forms of feminism and
analyze the role of essentialist and constructivist views in them. What
is more, we will not limit our considerations to the opposition between
essentialism and anti-essentialism, but will also see that the feminisms
listed above can be interconnected and they analyze many different
social, cultural, economic, and political phenomena.
Assessment scheme Participation in the course based on knowledge of assigned texts plus
an essay.
Lecturer
Contact
Prof. Elżbieta Jung
Joanna Papiernik, PhD
[email protected]; [email protected]
Scientific interests Premodern philosophy, history of science, feminism
USOS code 0200-ERAS193
Literature 1. What is Feminism? https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminist-
philosophy/
Alison Stone, Essentialism and Anti-Essentialism in Feminist
Philosophy, http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/34/2/Microsoft_Word_-
_E9130088.pdf
2. D. Garison, Karen Horney and Feminism, Signs, vol. 6, No. 4
(Summer, 1981), pp. 672-691.
3. Margaret Bernston, The political economy of women's liberation.
Monthly Review. Monthly Review Foundation. 21 (4), pp. 13–27.
4. Simone de Beauvoir’s, The Second Sex, translated by H. M.
Pashley, Harmondsworth 1984.
5. P.A. Gowaty, Sexual Natures: How Feminism Changed
Evolutionary Biology, Signs, Vol. 28, No. 3, Gender and Science: New
Issues (Spring 2003), pp. 901-921.
Field of study/
programme Philosophy
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Course title 5. Filosofía política europea – republicanismo
(European Political Philosophy – Republicanism) Form Tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor) / graduate (master)
Year/semester 2019/2020 cuatrimestre de verano (summer semester)
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
Spanish
No. of hours 30
Course content El objetivo del curso es impartir los conocimientos acerca de la
filosofía política europea, y más precisamente de la tradición del
republicanismo desde la Antigüedad hasta la actualidad. La evolución
del pensamiento republicano se verà á través de la lectura de los textos
de Aristóteles, Kant y Hannah Arendt.
Assessment scheme
Lecturer
Contact
Joanna Miksa, PhD
Scientific interests Etica, filosofía práctica de Immanuel Kant, filosofía política de
América Latina, ética aplicada
USOS code 0200-ERAS194
Literature Aristóteles, Ética nicomáquea.
Kant, Metafísica de las costumbres.
Hannah Arendt, La condición humana.
Field of study/
programme
Filosofía
Course title 6. Hauptströmungen der europäischen Ethik
(Main Currents of the European Ethics) Form Tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2019/2020 summer semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
German
No. of hours 30
Course content Im Rahmen des Tutorials werden Grundtypen ethischer Theorien
sowie Grundformen moralischer Argumentation besprochen. Für das
europäische Denken sind zwei Modelle normativer Ethik von
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grundlegender Bedeutung: ein teleologischer und ein deontologischer
Ansatz. Die Lektüre von Auszügen aus klassischen Texten von
Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Kant und Mill wird einen Einblick in
Paradigmen des ethischen Denkens und ein besseres Verständnis in
den Sinn und die Ursachen vieler zeitgenössischen
Auseinandersetzungen ethischer Art.
Assessment scheme Aktive Teilnahme (erbracht durch Referat etc.)
Lecturer Prof. Andrzej Maciej Kaniowski
Contact andrzej.kaniowski@ uni.lodz.pl
USOS code 0200-ERAS084
Literature Ausgewählte Passagen und Auszüge aus den Schriften von Aristotle,
Thomas Aquinas, Kant und Mill.
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
Course title 7. History of Logic
Form Tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor) / graduate (master) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2019/2020 summer semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content The history of logic studies the development of logical ideas from
pre-Socratic philosophers to the present. The intent of the course is
to provide students with a thorough knowledge of the development.
Details
I. Logic in Ancient Philosophy
1. Pre-Socratic philosophers
2. Soctares and Plato
3. Aristotle's Organon
4. Megarians, Stoics and Skepticism
II. Medieval Logic
1. Boethius and Logica vetus
2. St. Anselm and Peter Abelard
3. William of Ockham and his Summa logicae
4. Modalities in the Middle Ages
III. Renaissance
1. Petrus Ramus
2. Juan Luis Vives and the logical symbolism
IV. Post-Renaissance
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1. Port-Royal Logic
2. G.W. Leibniz and symbolic logic
3. J.H. Lambert and L. Euler
V. The 19th century logic
1. A. De Morgan and his Formal Logic
2. G. Boole and mathematical logic
3. G. Frege and classical symbolic logic
4. G. Cantor’s set theory
VI. Logic of the 20th centuary
1. Principia Mathematica
2. Zermelo-Fraenkel Set Theory
3. Lvov-Warsaw School
4. K. Goedel and his contribution to mathemathical logic
5. Non-classical Logics
Assessment
scheme
activity or short essay
Lecturer
Contact
Janusz Ciuciura, PhD
Scientific interests Logic, methodology, philosophy
USOS code 0200-ERAS061
Literature 1. Bochenski, J.M., A History of Formal Logic, Notre Dame Press,
1961.
2. Gabbay, Dov and John Woods, (eds), Handbook of the History of
Logic, Elsevier, 2004.
3. Haaparanta, Leila (ed.), The Development of Modern Logic
Oxford University Press, 2009.
4. Kneale, William and Martha, The development of logic, Oxford
University Press, 1962.
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
Course title Introduction to Classical Philosophy
Form Tutorial or Seminar
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s)
Year/semester 2019/2020 summer semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content The objective of the course is to acquaint the student with Ancient and Medieval
philosophical standpoints that made up and developed the doctrines of Plato And
Aristotle, gradually transforming them into a more or less uniform teaching, which
dominated philosophy until the beginning of the Enlightenment
1. Plato, Timaeus, 40A-54D, The Republic, book 7,
2. Aristotle, Metaphysics, book 7,
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3. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, book 1
4. Augustine, On the Free Will (fragment)
5. Joannes Scot Eriugena, On the division of Natire (fragment)
6. Peter Abailard, Ethics (fragment)
7. Avicenna, The Deliveramce (fragment)
8. Averroes, On Religion & Philosophy (fragment)
9. Thomas Aquinas, On Being and Essence (fragment)
10. John Duns Scotus, Ordinatio (fragment)
11. William Ockham, Commentary on the Sentences (fragment)
Assessment scheme 3 - 3+ (E-D) - participation in classes based on knowledge of assigned texts
4 - 5 (C-A) - participaion in classes based on knowledge of assigned texts plus a
positively graded semester paper.
Evaluation criteria for semester papers:
1. Coherent, lucid and consitent presentation of material
2. Independent opinions
3. Complete and precise argumentation
4. Selection of relevant source materials (both primary and secondary) and their
correct use.
5. Proper construction of the text: good proportions of introduction and conclusions
to the main part, sufficient and correct references/notes.
Lecturer
Contact
Prof. Marek Gensler
Scientific interests Ancient & Medieval philosophy, Philosophy of religion, Philosophy
of nature
USOS code 0200-ERAS053
Literature Plato, Timaeus, 40A-54D, The Republic, book 7, Aristotle, Metaphysics, book 7,
Nicomachean Ethics, book 1, Hyman & Walsh, Philosophy in the Middle Ages,
Field of study Philosophy
Course title 9. Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology
Form Tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / postgraduate
(doctoral)
Year/semester 2019/2020 summer semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content The JTB account of knowledge.
A priori and a posteriori knowledge.
The analytic-synthetic distinction (with application to mathematics).
Epistemic versus traditional deontological justification.
Internalism: foundationalism and coherentism.
Externalism: reliabilism
Assessment scheme Active participation
Lecturer
Contact
Prof. Marek Nowak
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Scientific interests Mathematical logic and set theory,
Philosophy of language: pragmatics
Epistemology
USOS code 0200-ERAS057
Literature • R. Chisholm, The Foundations of Knowing, University of
Minnesota Press 1982
• R. Chisholm, Theory of Knowledge (3rd ed.), Prentice-Hall
1989
• Steup M., An introduction to contemporary epistemology,
Prentice-Hall 1998
• R. Audi, Epistemology. A contemporary introduction to the
theory of knowledge (2nd ed.), Routledge 2003
Field of study Philosophy
Course title 10. Introduction to Philosophy of Religion Form Tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor) / graduate (master) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2019/2020 summer semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content The program of the class will cover the following topics:
- General idea of philosophy of religion
- The question of the existence of deities
- Contemporary atheistic ideologies
Assessment scheme Regular attendance, activity
Lecturer
Contact
Tomasz Sieczkowski, PhD
Scientific interests Philosophy of Religion, Epistemology, Social and Political Philosophy,
Philosophy of Popular Culture
USOS code 0200-ERAS151
Literature Chad Meister, 2009, Introducing Philosophy of Religion, London:
Routledge.
Michael Murray, Michael Rea, 2008, An Introduction to the
Philosophy of Religion, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Richard Dawkins, 2006, The God Delusion.
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
Course title 11. Metaphor Is the Core of Thinking
Form Tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor) / graduate (master) / doctoral degree
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Year/semester 2019/2020 summer semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content Metaphors pervade human (and maybe not only human) thinking. The
course offers a survey of functions and effects of metaphors in various
fields: from science to ideology. Metaphors play the role of lens
through which we see the world; we shall investigate how their
features influence our cognition.
Assessment scheme Regular attendance, activity, and presentation or short essay
Lecturer
Contact
Dorota Rybarkiewicz, PhD
Scientific interests Philosophy of language, pragmatics, theory of metaphor, cognitive
science
USOS code 0200-ERAS195
Literature Frigg R. 2010. Models and Fiction. Synthese, 172 (2): 251-268.
Hofstadter D. R. 2001. Epilogue: Analogy as the Core of Cognition. W: D. Gentner,
K. J. Holyoak, B. K. Kokinov.The Analogical Mind: Perspectives from
Cognitive Science: 499 -539.
Indurkhya B. Ojha A. 2013. An Empirical Study on the Role of Perceptual Similarity
in Visual Metaphors and Creativity. Metaphor and Symbol, 28: 233-253.
Field of study/
programme Philosophy
Course title 12. Metaphysics and Ontology
Form Tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor) / graduate (master) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2019/2020 summer semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content During the classes we take up the following issues:
1) What is an ontological atom (first substance, monad, fact);
2) different ways of being;
3) ontological categories;
4) principles of ontology versus principles of sciences
and others questions interesting for students.
Assessment scheme Regular attendance, activity, and presentation of short essay
Lecturer
Contact
Prof. Janusz Kaczmarek
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Scientific interests Ontology, cognitive science, formal tools in philosophy, philosophical
anthropology
USOS code 0200-ERAS055
Literature Aristotle, Categories, (different editions),
Copleston F., History of Philosophy, (different editions)
Leibniz, Monadology, (various translations),
Kaczmarek J., (2016), Ontological Atom. Atom of Substance, [in:]
Przegląd Filozoficzny (this paper is prepared in English version – for
students)
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
Course title 13. Methodology of Social Research
Form Tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor) / graduate (master) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2019/2020 summer semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content This course is designed for students who are interested in the
methodology of social research. The course extends the general
methodology (methods) of science. It provides an overview of the
key elements of social research methods and emphasizes their
practical applications.
Details
I. What is Methodology of Social Research? - and What is Research?
1. Objectives and Motivation of Social Research
2. Types of Social Research
3. Significance of Research
II. Research and Scientific Methods
1. Research Process
2. Components of Research
3. Criteria of Good Research
4. Purposes of Research
III. Methods: one or many?
1. Methods of data collection
2. How to establish the validity and reliability of a research
instrument?
IV. Ethical issues
V. Units of Analysis and Potential errors involving misuse of unit of
analysis
Assessment
scheme
activity or short essay
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Lecturer
Contact
Janusz Ciuciura, PhD
Scientific interests Logic, methodology, philosophy
USOS code 0200-ERAS031
Literature 1. Leonard Bickman, Debra J. Rog, Handbook of Applied Social
Research Methods, SAGE, 1998.
2. Earl R. Babbie, The Practice of Social Research, Wadsworth, 2010
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
Course title 14. Number Sense. Introduction to Numerical and
Spatial Cognition Form Tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor) / graduate (master) / postgraduate (doctoral)
Year/semester 2019/2020 summer semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content The course will cover the following topics:
Concept of number in mathematics and in cognitive science
• Numerosity processing in animals and human infants
• Ethnolinguistic and cultural variance of number systems
• Number sense vs spatial sense
• Cognitive correlations between number and space: SNARC effect
• Core systems of numerosity procesing: Approximate Number
System, Parallel Individuation System
Relationship between exact number concepts and systems of core
knowledge
Proces of exact number acquisition: bootstrapping, metaphorical
mappings, recursive structures of generative grammar
Neural bases of numerosity processing abilities
The issue of adequate numerosity representation in cognitive
system: symbolism, associationism, conceptual spaces
Assessment scheme Presentation or short essay
Lecturer
Contact
Aleksander Gemel, PhD
Scientific interests • Cognitive science, philosophy of language, philosophy of
mathematics
• Geometric models of conceptual representations
• Relationship of basic numerical representations with innate systems
of core knowledge
USOS code 0200-ERAS196
Literature • Dehaene S., (1997). The number sense: How the mind creates
mathematics, New York: Oxford University Press
• Carey S., (2009). The Origin of Concepts. New York: Oxford
University Press.
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• Kadosh R. C., Dowker A., (Eds.). The Oxford handbook of
numerical cognition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
• Campbell J. I. D., (Ed.). (2005). Handbook of mathematical
cognition. New York: Psychology Press.
• Dehaene, S., & Brannon, E. (Eds.). (2011). Space, time and number
in the brain: Searching for the foundations of mathematical
thought. San Diego: Elsevier Academic Press.
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
Course title 15. Philosophical Assumptions of Transhumanism
Form Tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor) / graduate (master) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2019/2020 summer semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content Transhumanism is an international intellectual movement involving a
broad set of ideas centered around the phenomenon of technological
progress and its future consequences (both welcomed and
unwelcomed). As such it implicitly relates to many philosophical
assumptions. The course discusses their anthropological, political, and
religious aspects.
Assessment scheme Regular attendance, activity, and oral assessment
Lecturer
Contact
Dawid Misztal, PhD
Scientific interests Philosophical anthropology, Transhumanism and Posthumanism
USOS code 0200-189
Literature 1. R. Ranisch and S. L. Sorgner (eds.) [2014], Trans- and
Posthumanism. An Introduction, Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang
GmbH
2. G. R. Hansell and W. Grassie (eds.) [2011], H+/–
Transhumanism and its Critics, Philadelphia: Metanexus
Institute.
3. J. Hughes, [2004], Citizen Cyborg. Why Democratic Societies
Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future,
Cambridge, MA: Westview Press.
4. R. Barbrook and A. Cameron [1996], Californian Ideology, in:
“Science as Culture”, Vol. 6, pp. 44-72.
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
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Course title 16. Philosophy of Language
Form Tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor) / graduate (master) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2019/2020 summer semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content The aim of the couse is to present brief the history and the main
problems of the philosophy of language:
Plato and Aristotle on language
J. Locke and psychological theory of meaning
J. S. Mill on denotation and connotation
G. Frege on sense and denotation
B. Russell and definite descriptions
The problem of proper names: descriptionism versus
millianism
Causal theory of naming (S. Kripke and H. Putnam)
J. Austin and speech acts theory
P. Grice and rules of conversation
Literal versus non-literal use of language
Assessment scheme Regular attendance, activity, and presentation or short essay
Lecturer
Contact
Prof. Janusz Maciaszek
Scientific interests Philosophy of language, philosophy of action, theory of metaphor,
cognitive science
USOS code 0200-ERAS041
Literature Lycan, W. G 2000 Philosophy of Language. A Contemporary
Introduction. London and New York: Routledge.
Martinich, A. P. (ed.) 2001 The Philosophy of Language. New
York: Oxford University Press.
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
Course title 17. Speech Act Theory
Form Tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / postgraduate
(doctoral)
Year/semester 2019/2020 summer semester
ECTS 6
16
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content Frege's theory of meaning
Performative vs constative sentences
Definition of the performative sentence
A syntactic criterion of performative sentences
The theory of infelicities in performance of the performative
utterances
Locutionary, perlocutionary and illocutionary acts due to Austin
Illocutionary force as a constituent of meaning of a sentence
Acts of utterance, referring, predication and expressing a proposition
due to Searle
Elementary illocutionary act of Searle
Types of compound illocutionary acts
The necessary conditions for successful performance of promise,
request, statement, thanking, warning, advice
The taxonomy of illocutionary acts due to Searle
Six parameters of illocutionary force
The taxonomy of elementary illocutionary acts (illocutionary verbs)
in the form of trees due to Vanderveken
Elements of illocutionary logic of Vanderveken
Assessment scheme Active participation
Lecturer
Contact
Prof. Marek Nowak
Scientific interests Mathematical logic and set theory,
Philosophy of language: pragmatics
Epistemology
USOS code 0200-ERAS051
Literature • J. L. Austin, How to Do Things with Words, Oxford,
Clarendon Press 1962
• J. L. Austin, Performative Utterances [in:] J. L. Austin,
Philosophical Papers, Oxford UP 1979, pp. 233-252
• J. R. Searle, Speech Acts, Cambridge UP 1969
• J. R. Searle, Expression and Meaning, Cambridge UP 1979
• J. R. Searle, D. Vanderveken, Foundations of illocutionary
logic, Cambridge UP 1985
• D. Vanderveken, Meaning and Speech Acts, Cambridge UP
1990-91
Field of study Philosophy
Course title 18. Storia d' immortalità da Omero al
Rinascimento (History of Immortality from
Homer to Renaissance) Form Tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor)
17
Year/semester 2019/2020 summer semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction Italian
No. of hours 30
Course content L'immortalità dell'anima è una delle questioni più importanti e più
discusse quasi dall'inizio dello sviluppo della filosofia europea. Già in
Omero troviamo un'espressione letteraria di interesse in questo
argomento, poi, nella scrittura filosofica della Grecia classica, il
problema acquista la grande rilevanza, specialmente nelle speculazioni
di Platone. Nel cristianesimo sull’immortalità discutono i Padri,
incluso s. Agostino, ma le grandi polemiche sorgono in connessione
con l'interpretazione del pensiero di Aristotele fatta da Averroè,
secondo cui solo un intelletto agente, unico per tutta la specie umana, è
immortale. In difesa dell'immortalità individuale, rispondendo agli
averroisti, i trattati scrivono (tra gli altri) s. Tomaso e Egidio Romano.
Tuttavia, la storia non si finisce qui, le polemiche sull'immortalità
dell’anima umana sono molto vive durnate Rinascimento; la panorama
del problema rimane complessa: da un lato Marsilio Ficino scrive una
impressionante giustificazione filosofica dell'immortalità individuale,
cioè Theologia Platonica, dall’altro, Pietro Pomponazzi, in suo
Tractatus de immortalitate animae, convince che non si può
dimostrare l’ immortalità umana con gli argomenti filosofici. Lo scopo
del corso: analizzare alcuni testi filosofici sull'immortalità dell'anima e
la loro importanza nella storia di filosofia europea.
Assessment scheme Partecipazione alle lezioni e lettura dei testi assegnati; breve saggio
Lecturer
Contact Joanna Papiernik, PhD
Scientific interests Storia di filosofia antica, medievale e rinascimentale; storia della
scienza, platonismo
USOS code 0200-ERAS197
Literature 1. Omero, Iliade e Odissea (frammenti)
2. Platone, Fedone, Fedro, Reppublica (frammenti)
3. Aurelio Agostino d'Ippona, Soliloquia, De immortalitate animae
(frammenti)
4. San Tomaso, Summa contra Gentiles, Summa Theologiae
(frammenti)
5. Marsilio Ficino, Theologia Platonica (frammenti); Pietro
Pomponazzi, De immortalitate animae
Field of study/
programme Philosophy
Course title 19. Mythology and Philosophy in Richard
Wagner’s Musical Works Form Tutorial
18
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor) / graduate (master)
Year/semester 2019/2020 summer semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content Wagner’s inspirations from German myths and contemporary
philosophy resulted iun highly original librettos which he used to write
himself. His psychological and sociological insights are very
interesting and can still be applied to contemporary circumstances. His
music is a tool to communicate these philosophical ideas to the public.
The content of the course includes a study of the cycle Ring of
Nibelung, Tristan and Isolde, Mastersingers from Nuremberg and
Parsifal
Assessment scheme Regular attendance and activity
Lecturer
Contact
Prof. Marek Rosiak
Scientific interests Phenomenology, transcendental philosophy, ontology, epistemology,
philosophy of music
USOS code 0200-ERAS086
Literature Librettos of: The Ring of Nibelung, Tristan and Isolde, Mastersingers
from Nuremberg and Parsifal
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
Course title 20. Субстанция как сюжет метафизики (Substance as the subject of metaphysics)
Form Tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor) / graduate (master)
Year/semester 2019/2020 summer semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
русский
No. of hours 30
Course content Основные рассуждения касающиеся субстанции как самого
главного понятия классической философии Запада
Assessment scheme Регулярное участвование в докладе
Lecturer
Contact
Prof. Marek Rosiak
Scientific interests феноменология, онтолгия, метафизика
19
USOS code 0200-ERAS191
Literature Аристотель,Категории
Декарт,Mедитации
Локк, Рассуждения об человеческм уме
Лэйбниц, Монадология
Field of study/
programme
философиа