PH0149 Philosophy of Pavel Tichý

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2007
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. BcA. Jiří Raclavský, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jan Zouhar, CSc.
Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Hana Holmanová
Timetable
Thu 16:40–18:15 A11 stara
Prerequisites
- for advanced students
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
Course objectives
In the course we investigate the intellectual work of the Czech logician and analytical philosopher Pavel Tichý (1936 Brno - 1994 Dunedin, New Zealand). They are accented his main philosophical contributions and the key features and background of his Transparent intensional logic. The topics related to analytical metaphysics include theory of individuals, individual concepts (and possibilia), properties and relations, state-of-affairs, events, possible worlds, complexes. Among epistemological themes they are theory of language, language meanings, de dicto / de re, propositional attitudes, semantic paradoxes, truthlikeness. The course has an extensive e-learning support.
Syllabus
  • - theory of bare individuals, antiessentialism - individual offices ("concepts"), position between actualism and possibilism - intensional modeling of properties (and relations) and their classification - existence and examination of ontological proof - combinatory theory of possible worlds - analysis of propositional (and other intentional) attitudes - extensive theory of de dicto and de re - theory of so-called constructions (hyperintensional, structured entities) - explications of Frege's thought and Russell's structured proposition - theory of complexes - concept of language and language meanings - principles of logical analyses of natural (as well as mathematical) language - theory of singular terms, subjunctive conditional, temporal discourse, episodic verbs - theory of truth and solutions of liar paradoxes - contributions to truthlikeness - theory of ability, freedom and responsibility
Assessment methods (in Czech)
- kombinace výkladu a kritického rozboru textů - samostudium textů - ústní zkouška (kolokvium)
Language of instruction
Czech
Teacher's information
http://www.phil.muni.cz/elf/course/view.php?id=866
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 1999, Autumn 2006, Spring 2010, Spring 2014.
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