ESDSM2 Methology in Humanities II.

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 10 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. Mgr. Martin Cajthaml, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Rostislav Niederle, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Petr Osolsobě, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Rostislav Niederle, Ph.D.
Department of Aesthetics – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Rostislav Niederle, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Aesthetics – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites
The course presupposes the ability to creatively self-reflect on a project, gradually enrich it and elaborate from a new perspective. It builds on previous results, language skills, and expert knowledge and develops academic communication in terms of methods and aims.
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
Course objectives
A doctoral student acquires a kind of knowledge in the realm of the subject;
- ponderates upon its utility for his dissertation project;
- learns to find and solve the problems about facts and methods;
- suggests alternatives solutions and thinks about the employment of AI for its support;
-exercises in the usage of the foreign language in study and academic communication;
develops forms on international collaboration in the field
Learning outcomes
- to analyze and to define the diverse cultural phenomena;
- to describe utilizing multi-factorial analysis the process of artistic creation and reception in the given period;
- to take into consideration both diachronic and synchronic approaches;
- to design a case for the AI usage;
- to review a recent publication or article;
- to describe a problem emerging with intercultural transfer, translation loss, changing functions and conventions;
- to develop the dissertation project
Syllabus
  • Humanities and Natural Sciences
  • Definitions, Problems, Solutions
  • Windelband-Rickert'classification, Dilthey and the Verstehen
  • Ot. Hostinský: aesthetic approach consists and the evaluation process
  • Karel Engliš and his Teleology as a Form of Scientific Cognition, Engliš's critique of the Kantian Fork
  • Descriptive or Prescriptive discourse
  • Question of truth in historical disciplines
  • Intentionality and Values
  • Humanities and "cultivation" as a value
  • Language, Culture, and Commitment
  • Analytic and Empirical assertion and problem of verification and falsification in humanities
  • Scientific and artistic cognition
  • Theory of models and world-modelling
Teaching methods
Individual consults with supervisor in doctoral study. All materials for the consults must be delivered in advance. Presentation of study results in the study circle or doctoral conference. Preparatory work on publication output.
Assessment methods
Colloquium with the supervisor in the presence of (2) other members of the scientific board. Presentation and discussion.
Náhradní absolvování
None.
Language of instruction
Czech
Study support
https://is.muni.cz/auth/do/phil/Pracoviste/seminar_estetiky/studijni_materialy/
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Jen pro doktorandské studium !
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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