FI:UA291 Philosophy - Course Information
UA291 Philosophy
Faculty of InformaticsAutumn 2004
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium), z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- PhDr. Jiří Kučera (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Karel Pala, CSc.
Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics - Timetable
- Thu 18:00–19:50 U5
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- ! Z291 Philosophy
- 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-IN)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, M-SS)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, M-TV)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, N-SS)
- Course objectives
- The aim of the subject is to acquaint students with basic problems and concepts of philosophy. Special ephasis is placed on the selected problems of epistemology and philosophy of science.
- Syllabus (in Czech)
- Filosofie jako specifická forma přístupu ke skutečnosti.
- Základní pojmy a problematika teorie poznání, ontologie, etiky.
- Redukcionismus, fyzikalismus. Argument inverzního spektra.
- Funkcionalismus, fyzikalismus, Turingův test.
- Solipsismus. "Brain in Vat" argument. Védanta, Kúmárila. Berkeley. Wittgenstein. Putnam.
- Filosofická problematika pojmů a čas, pohyb, změna. Hérakleitos, Parmenides, Zénón, Kant, McTaggart.
- Problémy determinismu, indeterminismu; fatalismus -- svobodná vůle. Demokritos, Aristoteles, stoicismus, Epikuros, Newcomb.
- Zlaté pravidlo morálky, kategorický imperativ, "volba za závojem nevědomosti". Konfucius, Kant, Rawls.
- Filosofická problematika pojmu pravda. Korespondenční, pragmatické, konvencionální a koherenční koncepce. Muo Ti, Protagoras, Aristoteles, Dewey, Tarski, Popper.
- Indukce, hypoteticko-deduktivní metoda, verifikacionismus, falzifikacionismus.
- Sofisma, paralogismus, logický klam, paradox, antinomie, Epimenides, jazyk a metajazyk, teorie logických typů. Sofisté, Aristoteles, Eubulides, Russell.
- Vznik logiky. Aristotelovská subjekt-predikátová logika, stoická výroková logika.
- Literature
- ANZENBACHER, Arno. Úvod do filozofie. 2. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1991, 304 s. ISBN 8004260381. info
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2004, recent)
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