PH0149 Philosophy of Pavel Tichý

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2010
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
Timetable
Thu 15:00–16:35 B31
Prerequisites
- progress exam
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
At the end of the course students should be able to: understand and explain basic features of philosophy of the Czech logician and analytical philosopher Pavel Tichý (1936 Brno - 1994 Dunedin, New Zealand); understand and explain Tichý's philosophical claims as making use of his Transparent intensional logic;. more properly understand the work of other analytical philosophers applying logic;
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
Literature
  • Pavel Tichý's collected papers in logic and philosophy. Edited by Vladimír Svoboda. Prague: Filosofia, 2004, 901 s. ISBN 1877276987. info
  • TICHÝ, Pavel. O čem mluvíme? :vybrané stati k logice a sémantice. Edited by Jaroslav Peregrin. Vyd. 1. Praha: Filosofia, 1996, 161 s. ISBN 80-7007-087-0. info
  • TICHÝ, Pavel. The foundations of Frege's logic. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1988, xiii, 303. ISBN 3110116685. info
Teaching methods
- a combination of lecture and critical analysis of texts - independent study of texts
Assessment methods
- oral exam (colloquium)
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 1999, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Spring 2014.
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