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Philosophy
(Aesthetics, Ethics, and Logic)
Winter semester 2019/2020
Before choosing the courses read carefully the following notes:
• You can include the courses from the list below into your LAS for the
winter semester 2019/20.
• The list is in alphabetic order – consult the whole list before taking
decision.
• All courses are prepared by professors of the Department of Philosophy
University of Lodz (Poland).
• The courses are usually in English, but you can find also some courses in
other languages (German, Spanish, Italian, and Russian).
• The list does not comprise schedules of classes. In order to fix the
schedule contact directly the lecturer (the e-mails are included).
• There are two forms of the courses: regular seminars for at least three
students and tutorials for one or two students (more flexible form of
classes). In both cases students receive the same number of ECTS points
(6).
• In case of any doubts do not hesitate to contact the Erasmus coordinator
at the Department of Philosophy University of Lodz, prof. Janusz
Maciaszek ([email protected]).
List of courses (descriptions and further details are below the list)
1. Agency and Free Will. An Introduction to Modern Philosophy of Action
2. Art, Philosophy, Criticism. Aesthetic Dilemmas of Modernity
3. Descartes y Pascal como dos caras de ser humano. Tipología según el
orden de la razón y el corazón
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4. Filosofía política de América Latina
5. Fundamental Problems in Philosophy of Religion
6. Introduction to Classical Philosophy
7. Introduction to Philosophy of Religion
8. L’homme sans Dieu, selon Pascal et Camus
9. Methodology of Social Research
10. Philosophical Anthropology
11. Philosophical Assumptions of Transhumanism
12. Philosophy of Language
13. The Role of Scientist in the Era of Fake News
14. Theories of Linguistic Metaphor
15. Vegetarianism Social and Cultural Aspects
16. Субстанция как сюжет метафизики
17. Introduction to Phenomenological Ontology
Course title 1. Agency and Free Will. An Introduction to
Modern Philosophy of Action Form Seminar or tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor) / graduate (master) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2019/2020 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content What is action?
Actions and events
Actions and causality
Reasons of actions
Intentionality
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Agency
The problem of free will. Are we free to act?
Assessment scheme Regular attendance, activity, and presentation or short essay
Lecturer
Contact
Prof. Janusz Maciaszek
Scientific interests Philosophy of language, philosophy of action, theory of metaphor,
cognitive science
USOS code 0200-ERAS146
Literature 1. Davidson, D. 2001 Essays on Actions and Events. Oxford:
Clerendon Press. Second edition.
2. Moya, C. 1990 Philosophy of Action. An Introduction. Polity
Press.
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
Course title 2. Art, Philosophy, Criticism.
Aesthetic Dilemmas of Modernity Form Tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor) / graduate (master)
Year/semester 2019/2020 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content The course offers an overview of main philosophical issues of modern aesthetics, such as the
changing conceptions of art, the meaning of aesthetic experience, aesthetic judgment, creative
autonomy and the question of social/political engagement of art.
The choice of readings comprises selected fragments from classical texts (Kant, Schiller,
Hegel), as well as XXth century modern art theory and more recent critical essays and artists’
statements.
Assessment scheme regular attendance, active participation, short essay on a chosen topic
Lecturer
Contact
Agnieszka Rejniak-Majewska, PhD
Scientific interests aesthetics, art theory, history of art (modern & contemporary)
USOS code 0200-ERAS059
Literature - I. Kant, Critique of Judgment, trans. J. C. Meredith, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007
(fragm.)
- F. Schiller, Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man (fragm.)
- C. Greenberg, Avant-Garde and Kitsch, in: idem, The Collected Essays and Criticism, ed. J.
O'Brian, Chicago-London: Chicago University Press 1994.
- Between Words: A Sourcebook of Central-European Avant-gardes, 1910–1930, ed. E.
Forgacs, Th. Benson, Cambridge-London 2002 (selected texts).
- W. Welsch, Aestheticization Processes: Phenomena, Distinctions and Prospects, "Theory,
Culture & Society" 1996, vol. 13.
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
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Course title 3. Descartes y Pascal como dos caras de ser humano.
Tipología según el orden de la razón y el corazón.
(Descartes and Pascal as two faces of being human.
Typology according to the order of reason and the heart) Form Tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor) / graduate (master) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2019/2020 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
Español
No. of hours 30
Course content Lo finito y lo Infinito. El conocimiento y la fe. La ciencia y las
emociones. Las razones de la razón y las razones del corazón. La
seriedad y la diversión. La confianza y el miedo. El optimismo y el
pesimismo. La alma y el cuerpo. Lo masculino y lo feminino. La vida y
la muerte.
Assessment scheme Presencia. Discusión. Ensayo.
Lecturer
Contact
Prof. Tomasz Stegliński
Scientific interests Historia de la filosofía. Filosofía moderna. Psicología. Historia del arte.
USOS code 0200-ERAS186
Literature Pascal, Pensamientos, http://www.biblioteca.org.ar/libros/89354.pdf
Descartes, Meditaciones acerca de la filosofía primera,
https://mercaba.org/Filosofia/Descartes/med_met_alfaguara.PDF
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
Course title 4.Filosofía política de América Latina (Political
Philosophy of Latin America) Form Tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor) / graduate (master)
Year/semester 2019/2020 cuatrimestre del invierno
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
Spanish
No. of hours 30
Course content El objetivo del curso es impartir conocimientos acerca de los
problemas básicos presentes en las discusiones sobre la filosofía
política de América Latina. En primer lugar, se hablará de las
consecuencias (sobre todo culturales) de La Conquista (E. Galeano).
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En cuanto a la ctualidad, se leeran los textos de Paulo Freire y los
textos de la corriente de la Teología de Liberación. Es posible incluir
los textos de la prensa para comentar los sucesos màs recientes.
Assessment scheme Presencia en clases, un ensayo corto a basis de uno de los textos
discutidos en clase
Lecturer
Contact
Dr Joanna Miksa
Scientific interests Etica, filosofía práctica de Immanuel Kant, filosofía política de
América Latina, ética aplicada
USOS code 0200-ERAS148
Literature Freire P., Pedagogía del oprimido, Buenos Aires 2009.
- Galeano E., Las venas abiertas de América Latina,
- Kapuscinski R., Cristo con un fusil al hombro, Anagrama 2014
Field of study/
programme
Filosofía
Course title 5. Fundamental Problems in Philosophy of
Religion Form Tutorial or seminar
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s)
Year/semester 2019/2020 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content The objective of the course is to acquaint participants with the main areas of study in philosophy of religion, its important problems and concepts,
presenting opinions addressing the issues from various perspectives, both
historic and doctrinal. 1. The problems of God Talk
2. The characteristics of God a) Omniscient
b) Omnipotent
c) Eternal 3. Religion and Morality
4. Eschatological problems
Assessment scheme 3 - 3+ (E-D) - participation in classes based on knowledge of assigned texts 4 - 5 (C-A) - participation in classes based on knowledge of assigned texts
plus a positively graded semester paper. Evaluation criteria for semester papers:
1. Coherent, lucid and consitent presentation of material
2. Independent opinions 3. Complete and precise argumentation
4. Selection of relevant source materials (both primary and secondary) and their correct use.
5. Proper construction of the text: good proportions of introduction and conclusions to the main part, sufficient and correct references/notes.
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Lecturer
Contact
Prof. Marek Gensler
Scientific interests Ancient & Medieval philosophy, Philosophy of religion, Philosophy
of nature
USOS code 0200-ERAS187
Literature Brian Davis (ed.), Philosophy of Religion. An Anthology, Oxford 2000
Field of study Philosophy
Course title 6. Introduction to Classical Philosophy
Form Tutorial or Seminar
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s)
Year/semester 2019/2020 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content The objective of the course is to acquaint the student with Ancient and
Medieval philosophical standpoints that made up and developed the doctrines of Plato And Aristotle, gradually transforming them into a more or
less uniform teaching, which dominated philosophy until the beginning of the Enlightenment
1. Plato, Timaeus, 40A-54D, The Republic, book 7,
2. Aristotle, Metaphysics, book 7, 3. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, book 1
4. Augustine, On the Free Will (fragment) 5. Joannes Scot Eriugena, On the division of Natire (fragment)
6. Peter Abailard, Ethics (fragment)
7. Avicenna, The Deliveramce (fragment) 8. Averroes, On Religion & Philosophy (fragment)
9. Thomas Aquinas, On Being and Essence (fragment) 10. John Duns Scotus, Ordinatio (fragment)
11. William Ockham, Commentary on the Sentences (fragment)
Assessment scheme 3 - 3+ (E-D) - participation in classes based on knowledge of assigned texts 4 - 5 (C-A) - participaion in classes based on knowledge of assigned texts
plus a positively graded semester paper.
Evaluation criteria for semester papers: 1. Coherent, lucid and consitent presentation of material
2. Independent opinions 3. Complete and precise argumentation
4. Selection of relevant source materials (both primary and secondary) and
their correct use. 5. Proper construction of the text: good proportions of introduction and
conclusions to the main part, sufficient and correct references/notes.
Lecturer
Contact
Prof. Marek Gensler
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Scientific interests Ancient & Medieval philosophy, Philosophy of religion, Philosophy
of nature
USOS code 0200-ERAS053
Literature Plato, Timaeus, 40A-54D, The Republic, book 7, Aristotle, Metaphysics, book 7, Nicomachean Ethics, book 1, Hyman & Walsh, Philosophy in the Middle
Ages
Field of study Philosophy
Course title 7. Introduction to Philosophy of Religion
Form Tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor) / graduate (master) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2019/2020 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content The program of the class will cover the following topics:
- General idea of philosophy of religion
- The question of the existence of deities
- Contemporary atheistic ideologies
Assessment scheme Regular attendance, activity
Lecturer
Contact
Tomasz Sieczkowski, PhD
Scientific interests Philosophy of Religion, Epistemology, Social and Political Philosophy,
Philosophy of Popular Culture
USOS code 0200-ERAS151
Literature Chad Meister, 2009, Introducing Philosophy of Religion, London:
Routledge.
Michael Murray, Michael Rea, 2008, An Introduction to the
Philosophy of Religion, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Richard Dawkins, 2006, The God Delusion.
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
Course title 8 L’homme sans Dieu, selon Pascal et Camus.
(A Man without the God, according to Pascal and
Camus) Form Tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor) / graduate (master) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2019/2020 winter semester
ECTS 6
8
Language of
instruction
Français
No. of hours 30
Course content Les changements dans la cosmologie et les changements dans la sagesse
humaine. Pascal et les conséquences du concept d'un univers infini. Le
problème de la spiritualité. Le problème de la transcendance. L’homme:
un sujet ou un objet. La question de l'obligation, pris en général. Valeurs
et jugement moral dans la pensée de Camus. Le rôle du prêtre et le rôle
du médecin dans La Peste. La valeur de la vie humaine. La valeur de la
loi et de la culture.
Assessment scheme présence, discussion, essai.
Lecturer
Contact
Prof. Tomasz Stegliński
Scientific interests L’histoire de la philosophie. La philosophie moderne. La psychologie.
L’histoire de l'art. La littérature.
USOS code 0200-ERAS188
Literature Pascal, Pensées,
http://www.samizdat.qc.ca/arts/lit/Pascal/Pensees_1671_ancien.pdf
Camus, La Peste, http://www.anthropomada.com/bibliotheque/CAMUS-
La-peste.pdf
Camus, L’ Étranger,
http://www.anthropomada.com/bibliotheque/CAMUS-Letranger.pdf
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
Course title 9. Methodology of Social Research
Form Tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor) / graduate (master) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2019/2020 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content This course is designed for students who are interested in the
methodology of social research. The course extends the general
methodology (methods) of science. It provides an overview of the
key elements of social research methods and emphasizes their
practical applications.
Details
I. What is Methodology of Social Research? - and What is Research?
1. Objectives and Motivation of Social Research
2. Types of Social Research
3. Significance of Research
II. Research and Scientific Methods
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1. Research Process
2. Components of Research
3. Criteria of Good Research
4. Purposes of Research
III. Methods: one or many?
1. Methods of data collection
2. How to establish the validity and reliability of a research
instrument?
IV. Ethical issues
V. Units of Analysis and Potential errors involving misuse of unit of
analysis
Assessment
scheme
activity or short essay
Lecturer
Contact
Janusz Ciuciura, PhD
Scientific interests Logic, methodology, philosophy
USOS code 0200-ERAS031
Literature 1. Leonard Bickman, Debra J. Rog, Handbook of Applied Social
Research Methods, SAGE, 1998.
2. Earl R. Babbie, The Practice of Social Research, Wadsworth, 2010
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
Course title 10. Philosophical Anthropology
Form Tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor) / graduate (master) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2019/2020 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content The lecture covers the following problems:
1) characteristics of philosophical anthropology,
2) different definitions of human beings,
3. human being as an animal,
4) human being and his will,
5) human being and his rationality
Assessment scheme Regular attendance, activity, and presentation of short essay
Lecturer
Contact
Prof. Janusz Kaczmarek
Scientific interests Ontology, cognitive science, formal tools in philosophy, philosophical
anthropology
USOS code 0200-ERAS099
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Literature 1) Scheler’s papers on anthropology
2) Hartmann N., New Ontology in Germany, (different editions),
3) Kaczmarek J., Ontological Foundations of Will; (paper in Polish
translated into English)
4) Different books on philosophical anthropology
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
Course title 11. Philosophical Assumptions of Transhumanism
Form Tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor) / graduate (master) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2019/2020 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content Transhumanism is an international intellectual movement involving a
broad set of ideas centered around the phenomenon of technological
progress and its future consequences (both welcomed and
unwelcomed). As such it implicitly relates to many philosophical
assumptions. The course discusses their anthropological, political, and
religious aspects.
Assessment scheme Regular attendance, activity, and oral assessment
Lecturer
Contact
Dawid Misztal, PhD
Scientific interests Philosophical anthropology, Transhumanism and Posthumanism
USOS code 0200-ERAS189
Literature 1. R. Ranisch and S. L. Sorgner (eds.) [2014], Trans- and
Posthumanism. An Introduction, Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang
GmbH
2. G. R. Hansell and W. Grassie (eds.) [2011], H+/–
Transhumanism and its Critics, Philadelphia: Metanexus
Institute.
3. J. Hughes, [2004], Citizen Cyborg. Why Democratic Societies
Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future,
Cambridge, MA: Westview Press.
4. R. Barbrook and A. Cameron [1996], Californian Ideology, in:
“Science as Culture”, Vol. 6, pp. 44-72.
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
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Course title 12. Philosophy of Language
Form Tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor) / graduate (master) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2019/2020 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content The aim of the couse is to present brief the history and the main
problems of the philosophy of language:
Plato and Aristotle on language
J. Locke and psychological theory of meaning
J. S. Mill on denotation and connotation
G. Frege on sense and denotation
B. Russell and definite descriptions
The problem of proper names: descriptionism versus
millianism
Causal theory of naming (S. Kripke and H. Putnam)
J. Austin and speech acts theory
P. Grice and rules of conversation
Literal versus non-literal use of language
Assessment scheme Regular attendance, activity, and presentation or short essay
Lecturer
Contact
Prof. Janusz Maciaszek
Scientific interests Philosophy of language, philosophy of action, theory of metaphor,
cognitive science
USOS code 0200-ERAS041
Literature Lycan, W. G 2000 Philosophy of Language. A Contemporary
Introduction. London and New York: Routledge.
Martinich, A. P. (ed.) 2001 The Philosophy of Language. New
York: Oxford University Press.
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
Course title 13. The Role of Scientist in the Era of Fake News
Form Tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor)
Year/semester 2019/2020 winter semester
ECTS 6
12
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content „Fake news” has only began to threaten our understanding of reality.
The way we apprehend and decide to believe any statement is rarely
truly critical and can only be altered if the “real news” are published
swiftly afterwards and we are willing to confront it. Scientists have to
take part in the process of “debunking” (which itself is complicated
issue), what can be perceived as their moral obligation. It is also to
their best interest and future of their disciplines. During the classes, we
will examine what “fake news” is, how it translates into pseudoscience
and whether it has any history from which we could learn.
Assessment scheme Regular attendance, activity, and presentation
Lecturer
Contact
Prof. Elżbieta Jung
Marcin Jerzy Leszczyński, MA
Scientific interests Philosophy of science, history of science, epistemology, science
studies
USOS code 0200-ERAS190
Literature 1. Michael D. Gordin, The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky
and the Birth of the Modern Fringe, UCP 2012
2. M. Pigliucci, M. Boudry, Philosophy of Pseudoscience:
Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem, UCP 2013
3. A. Kaufmann, J. Kaufmann, Pseudoscience : the conspiracy against
science, MIT Press 2018
4. Post-Truth, Fake News: Viral Modernity & Higher Education,
Springer 2018
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy, History
Course title 14. Theories of Linguistic Metaphor
Form Tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor) / graduate (master) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2019/2020 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content • What is metaphor?
• Metaphor as a problem of philosophy of language, philology
and rhetoric
• Metaphor versus other figures of speech (metonymy, irony,
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allusion)
• Traditional approaches to metaphor (substitutional theories and
simile theories)
• Theory of metaphorical communication (P. Grice, J. Searle, and
A. P. Martinich)
• M. Black and interaction theory of metaphor
• Causal theory of metaphor (D. Davidson and R. Rorty)
Assessment scheme Class attendance, active participation, presentation or essay.
Lecturer
Contact Dorota Rybarkiewicz, Phd [email protected]
Scientific interests Theory of metaphor
USOS code 0200-ERAS042
Literature • Black, M. 1954 Metaphor. „Proceedings of the Aristotelian
Society”, 55, 273 – 94.
• Davidson, D. 1978 What Metaphors Mean. „Critical
Inquiry”5, 31 - 47. Przedruk w: Inquiries into Truth and
Interpretation. Oxford: Clerendon Press., 2001: 245 – 64.
• Searle, J. R. 1979 Metaphor. W: Expression and Meaning:
Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 76 – 116.
Field of study/
programme Philosophy
Course title 15. Vegetarianism. Social and Cultural Aspects
Form Tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor) / graduate (master) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2019/2020 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content Introduction to Philosophy of Vegetarianism
Details:
I. Vegetarianism. A General Description
1. Philosophical, Social and Psychological background
II. History of Vegetarianism
1. Origins in the West
2. Philosophy of Vegetarianism and Orthodox Christianity
3. European Renaissance and Vegetarianism
4. Vegetarianism vs. Cartesian’s Thought
5. Vegetarianism in the Age of Enlightenment
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6. Philosophy of Vegetarianism Today
III. Philosophy of Vegetarianism and the Environment
IV. Social Aspects of Vegetarianism
Assessment
scheme
activity or short essay
Lecturer
Contact
Janusz Ciuciura, PhD
Scientific interests Logic, methodology, philosophy
USOS code 0200-ERAS033
Literature 1. Tristram Stuart, The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of
Vegetarianism from 1600 to Modern Times, W. W. Norton & Co.,
2007
2. Colin Spencer, Vegetarianism: A History, Da Capo Press, 2004
3. Andrew Linzey, Animal Theology, University of Illinois Press,
1995.
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
Course title 16. Субстанция как сюжет метафизики (Substance as the subject of metaphysics)
Form Tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor) / graduate (master)
Year/semester 2019/2020 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
русский
No. of hours 30
Course content Основные рассуждения касающиеся субстанции как самого
главного понятия классической философии Запада
Assessment scheme Регулярное участвование в докладе
Lecturer
Contact
Prof. Marek Rosiak
Scientific interests феноменология, онтолгия, метафизика
USOS code 0200-ERAS191
Literature Аристотель,Категории
Декарт,Mедитации
Локк, Рассуждения об человеческм уме
Лэйбниц, Монадология
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Field of study/
programme
философиа
Course title 17. Introduction to Phenomenological Ontology Form Tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor) / graduate (master)
Year/semester 2019/2020 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content Basic introduction to Roman Ingarden’s phenomenological ontoogy
including the roots of his controversy with Husserl over transcendental
idealism. Ontology as a preparation to deal with metaphysical
problems. The general notion of an object. Existential and formal
ontology. Existential moments and modes of existence. Absolute,
ideal, real and purely intentional being. Possible solutions of the
realism-ideralism controversy.
Assessment scheme Regular attendance and activity
Lecturer
Contact
Prof. Marek Rosiak
Scientific interests Phenomenology, transcendental philosophy, ontology, epistemology,
philosophy of music
USOS code 0200-ERAS066
Literature Ingarden Roman, The Controversy over the existence of the World,
vol. I
Ingarden Roman, Time and Modes of Being
Mitscherling Jeff, Roman Ingarden’s Ontology and Aesthetics
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
