PHV417 Philosophy and Cosmology: Selected Chapters

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Josef Krob, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Josef Krob, CSc.
Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 23 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
The aim of lectures in the course of Philosophical Issues of Cosmology is to convey the problems of philosophical interpretation of contemporary issues of modern cosmology, i.e. cosmological theories of the 20th century. Of course, history can not be avoided amd it is the subject of the first lecture. However, historical issues always appear in close connection with the current topic.
Learning outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to identify contemporary key problems at boundaries of philosophy and cosmology and will be able to orientate in the competencies of individual fields in solving selected problems.
Syllabus
  • A short historical overview of cosmological ideas as part of a philosophical perspective on the world, selected problems of modern cosmology, i.e. relativistic cosmology in the 20th century
    - traditional categories and new questions (matter, dark mattero and energy, methodological issues)
    - space and time in macrostructures
    - unification theory
    - ideology and cosmology
    - from geocentrism to contemporary model of space
    - cosmological principles, anthropic principle
Literature
  • HAVLÍK, Vladimír. Anomálie, ad hoc hypotézy a temné stránky kosmologie. Plzeň: v nakladatelství Vyšehrad vydala Tiskárna Bílý slon s.r.o., 2015, 165 stran. ISBN 9788090617636. info
  • KROB, Josef. Kant a kosmologie (Kant and Cosmology). In Kant redivivus. Průřezy dílem filosofa. 1st ed. Brno: Vydavatelství MU, 2004, p. 121-127, 6 pp. ISBN 80-210-3384-3. info
  • KROB, Josef. Změní nové kosmologie naše představy o čase a prostoru? (Change New Cosmology Our Image of Time and Space?). Profil. Brno: KF FF MU, 2000, vol. 1, No 1, p. 1-3. ISSN 1212-9097. URL info
  • HORSKÝ, Jan. Jistoty relativistické kosmologie (Certainties of Relativistic Cosmology). Československý časopis pro fyziku. Praha: Fyzikální ústav AV ČR, 1998, vol. 1998, No 48, p. 64-69. ISSN 0009-0700. info
  • NOVOTNÝ, Jan. Kosmologie, expanze a relativita (Cosmology, expansion and relativity). Vesmír. Praha: Vesmír, 1995, vol. 74, No 5, p. 250-251. ISSN 0042-4544. info
  • KROB, Josef. Hledání počátku v dějinách a současnosti kosmologie. SPFFBU. Brno: Filosofická fakulta brněnské university, 1994, vol. 1994, B 41, p. 13-19. info
  • KROB, Josef. Antropocentrismus v dějinách a současnosti kosmologie. (Anthropocentrism in the Past and Present of Cosmology.). Filosofický časopis [roč. 2 (1954)-40 (1992)]. Praha: Filosofický ústav AV ČR, 1993, vol. 41, No 5, p. 858-868. ISSN 0015-1831. info
  • KROB, Josef. Člověk a vesmír nebo filosofie a kosmologie? 1992. info
  • KROB, Josef. Některé metodologické otázky kosmologie. SPFFBU. Brno: UJEP, 1986, B33, p. 81-89. info
Teaching methods
Lectures with discussions
Assessment methods
Written test
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is taught every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: kombinovaná forma: 16 hodin/semestr.
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