SAN216 Anthropology and Philosophy

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
1/1. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. Mgr. Martin Kanovský, PhD. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. Mgr. Martin Kanovský, PhD.
Division of Social Anthropology – Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Timetable
Thu 14:00–15:40 exP24
Prerequisites
No special knowledge in philosophy and/or history of philosophy is required. The course will be based on debates about problems, not on using encyclopaedic information
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
The aim of this course is to present some themes concerning the fruitful co-operation between (contemporary’ philosophy and anthropology. This course is not a survey of philosophical thoughts accompanied by anthropological illustrations and evidence: it is rather an attempt to put on the table some perspective ways how could these be fields made relevant one to another.
The main goals of this course are as follows:
to acquaint students with (some of) contemporary philosophical question, which might be possibly solved with the help from anthropological part;
furthermore, to study and grasp various ways how can anthropology accomplish that by means of its field work methods;
and finally, to learn to re-conceptualize, in anthropological ways, some of important general questions put forward by philosophical investigations.
Syllabus
  • (1) Introductory Session
  • (2) Anthropology and Epistemology 1: Epistemological Projects
  • (3) Anthropology and Epistemology 2: Anthropological Contributions
  • (4) Examples of Anthropological Field Works and Evidence Concerning Epistemology (Brasilia, India, Ukraine, etc.)
  • (5) Anthropology and Moral Philosophy 1
  • (6) Anthropology and Moral Philosophy 2
  • (7) Examples of Anthropological Field Works and Evidence Concerning Moral Philosophy
  • (8) Discourse and Analysis of Knowledge 1
  • (9) Discourse and Analysis of Knowledge 2
  • (10) Power, Subject, Subjectivization
  • (11) Anthropological Analyses of Discourse and Power
  • (12) Closing Debate 1
  • (13) Closing Debate 2
Literature
  • STICH, Stephen, Shaun NICHOLS and Joseph WEINBERG. Meta-Skepticism: Meditations in Ethno-Epistemology. In LUPER, Steven. The Skeptics. 1st ed. Surrey: Ashgate, 2003, p. 227-247, 20 pp. ISBN 978-0-7546-1421-0. info
  • FOUCAULT, Michel. Archeologie vědění. Praha: Herrmann & synové, 2002, 318 s. info
  • HAIDT, Jonathan. The Emotional Dog and Its Rational Tail: A Social Intuitionist Approach to Moral Judgement. 2001, 20 pp. Psychological Review, 108/4, 814-834. ISSN 0033-295X. info
  • FOUCAULT, Michel. Myšlení vnějšku. Translated by Čestmír Pelikán. V Praze: Herrmann & synové, 1996, 303 s. info
Assessment methods
lectures, class discussions, 3 short texts (precis) during the term, final concise essay, oral exam
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2014.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2009, recent)
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