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Philosophy
Aesthetics, Ethics, and Logic
Winter semester 2017/2018
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 2017/18.
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 Łódź (Poland).
The courses are usually in English, but you can find also some courses in
other languages (German, Spanish 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).
This list is available on the webpage of the International Students
Office University of Łódź and on the webpage of the Department of
Philosophy (www.filozof.uni.lodz.pl).
There will be available for you in 1917/18 also some courses in English
for polish Philosophy students. The list will be published on the
webpage of the Institute of Philosophy in June 2017.
If there are any changes in the list below the information will be available
as soon as possible on the webpage of the Department of Philosophy. In
this case there will be no problem to change LAS.
In case of any doubts do not hesitate to contact the Erasmus coordinator
at the Department of Philosophy University of Łódź, prof. Janusz
Maciaszek ([email protected]).
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List of courses
(descriptions are below the list)
1. Введение в философию процесса (prof. Marek Rosiak - [email protected])
2. A Comparative Analysis of Leibniz’s Monadology and Ontology of Wittgenstein’s
Tractatus logico-philosophicus (prof. Marek Rosiak - [email protected])
3. Agency and Free Will. An Introduction to Modern Philosophy of Action (prof. Janusz
Maciaszek – [email protected])
4. Art, Philosophy, Criticism. Aesthetic Dilemmas of Modernity (Agnieszka Rejniak-
Majewska, PhD - [email protected])
5. Basic Notions of Contemporary Ontology (prof. Marek Rosiak - [email protected])
6. Contemporary Murals – Performativity of Art and Place (Wioletta Kazimierska-Jerzyk,
PhD - [email protected])
7. Filosofía política de América Latina (Joanna Miksa, PhD - [email protected])
8. Formal Ontology (prof. Janusz Kaczmarek - [email protected])
9. Happiness – philosophy and science behind well-being (Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek,
PhD - [email protected])
10. Hauptströmungen der europäischen Ethik (prof. Andrzej Maciej Kaniowski –
11. History of Logic (Janusz Ciuciura, PhD – [email protected] )
12. Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology (prof. Marek Nowak -
13. Introduction to Phenomenological Ontology (Prof. Marek Rosiak - [email protected])
14. Introduction to Philosophy of Religion (Tomasz Sieczkowski, PhD -
[email protected], [email protected])
15. Introduction to Political Philosophy (Michał Zawidzki, PhD -
16. Introduction to Process Philosophy (prof. Marek Rosiak - [email protected])
17. Issues in Philosophy of Religion (prof. Marek Gensler - [email protected])
18. John Searle`s philosophy of mind (Rafał Tryścień, MA - [email protected])
19. Mental experiments and personal identity (Rafał Tryścień, MA -
20. Metaphysics and Ontology (prof. Janusz Kaczmarek - [email protected])
21. Methodology of Social Research (Janusz Ciuciura, PhD - [email protected])
22. Modal logics - from a simple theory to a variety of possible applications (Michał
Zawidzki, PhD - [email protected] )
23. Mythology and Philosophy in Richard Wagner’s Musical Works Part I (prof. Marek
Rosiak - [email protected])
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24. Mythology and Philosophy in Richard Wagner’s Musical Works Part II (prof. Marek
Rosiak - [email protected])
25. New Atheism as a Worldview (Tomasz Sieczkowski, PhD -
[email protected], [email protected])
26. Paraconsistent Logic (Janusz Ciuciura, PhD – [email protected] )
27. Personal identity – contemporary discussions (Rafał Tryścień, MA -
28. Philosophical Antropology (prof. Janusz Kaczmarek - [email protected])
29. Philosophical Theories of Part and Whole (prof. Marek Rosiak - [email protected])
30. Philosophy of Cognitive Science (prof. Janusz Maciaszek – [email protected])
31. Philosophy of Language (prof. Janusz Maciaszek – [email protected])
32. Posthumanism and Human Nature (Dawid Misztal, PhD - [email protected])
33. Practical ethics (Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, PhD - [email protected])
34. Rhetoric and Argumentation (Michał Zawidzki, PhD - [email protected])
35. Speech Act Theory (prof. Marek Nowak - [email protected])
36. Theories of Metaphor (prof. Janusz Maciaszek - [email protected]))
37. Ut pictura poesis - street art between text and picture (Agnieszka Gralińska-Toborek,
PhD - [email protected]
38. Vegetarianism. Social and Cultural Aspects (Janusz Ciuciura, PhD -
Course title 1. Введение в философию процесса
(Introduction to Process Philosophy) Form Seminar or tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / postgraduate
(doctoral)
Year/semester 2017/2018 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
Русский
No. of hours 30
Course content Систематическое и историческое введение
Монадолгия Лейбница
Элементы метафизики процесса А. Н. Уайтхеда
Assessment scheme Регулярное присутсвие и/или письменная работа
Lecturer
Contact
Marek Rosiak
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Scientific interests Ontology, phenomenology, transcendental philosophy, philosophy of
music
USOS code
Literature Leibniz, Monadology
Whitehead A. N.,.Process and Reality. An Essay in Cosmology,
Corrected Edition, The Free Press, N. Y. 1978
Christian W. A., An Interpretation of Whitehead’s Metaphysics, Yale
Univ. Press, New Haven 1959
Field of study Philosophy
Course title 2. A Comparative Analysis of Leibniz’s
Monadology and Ontology of Wittgenstein’s
Tractatus logico-philosophicus Form Seminar or tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / postgraduate
(doctoral)
Year/semester 2017/2018 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content Analysis of spiritualistic atomism of Monadology.and logical
atomism of Tractatus logico-philosophicus showing their systematic
correspondencies and basic differences
Assessment scheme Regular attendance, activity and/or written work
Lecturer
Contact
Marek Rosiak
Scientific interests Ontology, phenomenology, transcendental philosophy, philosophy of
music
USOS code 0200-ERAS123
Literature Leibniz, Monadology
Wittgenstein, Tractatus logico-philosophicus
Field of study Philosophy
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Course title 3. 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 2017/2018 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content What is action?
Action and event
The problem of responsibility
Intentionality
The notion of agency
Reasons of actions
Causal approach to action
The problem of free will
Language and action
Are we free to act?
Assessment scheme Regular attendance, activity, and presentation or short essay
Lecturer
Contact
Janusz Maciaszek
Scientific interests Philosophy of language, philosophy of action, theory of metaphor,
cognitive science
USOS code
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.
3. O'Connor, T and C. Sandis (eds.) 2010. A Companion to the
Philosophy of Action. Blackwell.
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
Course title 4. Art, Philosophy, Criticism. Aesthetic Dilemmas
of Modernity Form Seminar or tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / postgraduate
(doctoral)
6
Year/semester 2017/2018 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content The course offers an overview of main philosophical problems of
modern and contemporary aesthetics, such as the function of art, the
meaning of aesthetic experience, aesthetic judgment, creativity,
originality, relations between art and politics.
The choice of readings comprises selected fragments from classical
texts as well as more recent critical essays and artists’ statements, in
order to point to the broader connections between modern aesthetic
theory and artistic practice
Assessment scheme Evaluation is based on: (1) students preparation for the class (reading
appointments), (2) active participation, (3) final essay on a chosen
topic
Lecturer
Contact
Agnieszka Rejniak-Majewska
Scientific interests Philosophical aesthetics, theory of art, critical theory (Frankfurt
School);
Avant-garde movements in Poland and Central-East Europe,
XXth century American art and criticism
USOS code 0200-ERAS059
Literature - Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgment, trans. James Creed Meredith,
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007 (fragments).
- Friedrich Schiller, Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man
(fragm.)
- Roger Fry, An Essay on Aesthetics; Art and Live, in: idem, Vision
and Design, London 1937
- Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, On Pure Form, in: Aesthetics in XXth
Century Poland, eds. J. Harrell, A. Wierzbiańska, New Jersey 1973;
- Between Words: A Sourcebook of Central European Avant-gardes,
1910-1930, eds. Éva Forgács, Th. Benson, Cambridge – London 2002
(fragm.)
- Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological
Reproducibility, in: idem, The Work of Art in the Age of Its
Technological Reproducibility and Other Writings on Media, ed.
Michael W. Jennings, Harvard University Press, 2008
- Theodor W. Adorno, On the Fetish-Character of Music and the
Regression of Listening, in: idem, Essays on Music, ed. R. Leppert,
Berkeley – Los Angeles – London 2002
- Theodor W. Adorno, Commitment, in: Aesthetics and Politics, ed. F.
Jameson, London 1980
- Stefan Morawski, On the Avant-garde, Neo-avant-garde and the
Case of Postmodernism, “Literary Studies in Poland” vol. 21, 1989
- Richard Shusterman, Aesthetic Experience and Popular Art, in:
idem, Performing Live: Aesthetic Alternatives for the Ends of Art,
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Cornell University Press 2000.
Field of study Philosophy
Course title 5. Basic Notions of Contemporary Ontology
Form Seminar or tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / postgraduate
(doctoral)
Year/semester 2017/2018 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content An introductory course in systematic ontology. The course can
introduce more advanced notions and theories depending on the level
of competence of participants
Assessment scheme Regular attendance, activity and/or written work
Lecturer
Contact
Marek Rosiak
Scientific interests Ontology, phenomenology, transcendental philosophy, philosophy of
music
USOS code 0200-ERAS083
Literature Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology, ed. H. Burkhardt
Field of study Philosophy
Course title 6. Contemporary Murals – Performativity of Art
and Place Form Seminar or tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / postgraduate
(doctoral)
Year/semester 2017/2018 winter semester
ECTS 6
8
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content The course offers an overview of main components of aesthetic
experience of contemporary large format outdoor painting, such as:
Inevitability of experience;
Experience of site and art medium;
Processuality, eventualisation and performativity of experience;
Polysensory nature of experience.
Assessment scheme Evaluation is based on: (1) students preparation for the class (reading
appointments), (2) active participation, (3) final essay on a chosen
work of art
Lecturer
Contact
Wioletta Kazimierska-Jerzyk
Scientific interests aesthetics, theory of art, performance studies, urban studies
USOS code
Literature Richard Shusterman, Aesthetic Experience and Popular Art,
in: idem, Performing Live: Aesthetic Alternatives for the Ends
of Art, Cornell University Press 2000.
Arnold Berleant, The Aesthetic in Place, [w:] Constructing
Place. Mind and Matter, red. Sarah Menin, Routledge,
London–New York 2004.
Boehm Gottfried, Mitchell W. J. T., Pictorial Versus Iconic
Turn. Two Letters, “Culture, Theory & Critique” 2009, no.
50(2–3).
Agnieszka Gralińska-Toborek, Wioletta Kazimierska-Jerzyk,
Doświadczenie sztuki w przestrzeni miejskiej. Galeria Urban
Forms 2011-2013/ Experience of Art in Urban Space. Urban
Forms Gallery 2011-2013, transl. Marta Koniarek,
Biblioteka/Fundacja Urban Forms, Łódź 2014
Aesthetic Energy of the City. Experiencing Urban Art And
Space, eds. A. Gralińska-Toborek, W. Kazimierska-Jerzyk,
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2016.
Field of study Philosophy, Art history
Course title 7. Filosofía política de América Latina
(Political Philosophy of Latin America) Form Seminar or tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s)
El grado / el master
2017/2018 winter semester
ECTS 6
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Language of
instruction
Español
No. of hours 30
Course content 1. La descripción y el análisis de la situación geopolítica de América
Latina en la obra de Eduardo Galeano.
2. Los movimientos guerrilleros latinoamericanos en los reportajes de
Kapuscinski.
3. El proyecto pedagógico de Paulo Freire.
4. El proyecto de la transformación de la sociedad en la obre de Paulo
Freire.
Assessment scheme Un trabajo escrito relacionado con uno de los temas tratados a lo largo
del curso.
Lecturer
Contact
Dr Joanna Miksa
Scientific interests Filosofía política de América Latina, neocolonialismo, marxismo.
USOS code
Literature - Freire P., Pedagogía del oprimido, Buenos Aires 2009.
- Galeano E., Las venas abiertas de América Latina, Buenos Aires
2012.
- Kapusciński R., Cristo con un fusil al hombro, Anagrama 2014
Field of study Filosofía
Course title 8. Formal Ontology
Form Seminar or tutorial
Level of course graduate (master’s) / postgraduate (doctoral)
Year/semester 2017/2018 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content classical and formal ontology, Wittgensein’s ontology of state of
affairs, formal ontology of ideas and individuals, topological ontology
Assessment scheme short paper on chosen ontological problem; discussion on main
problems of formal ontology
Lecturer
Contact
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Scientific interests Ontology, formal ontology, cognitive science, human will, God in
philosophy, philosophy of language
USOS code
Literature Arystoteles, Kategorie, ( Categories), [różne wydania (different
editions), m.in. ]:
Tenże (1990), Dzieła wszystkie, t. 1, tłum. wstęp i komentarz K.
Leśniak, PWN, Warszawa.
Fine K. (1995), The Logic of Essence, Journal of Philosophical Logic,
s. 241–273.
Fine K. (2000), Semantics for the Logic of Essence, Journal of
Philosophical Logic, s. 543–584.
Kaczmarek J. (2002), On the Porphyrian Tree Structure and an
Operation of Determination,
Bulletin of the Section of Logic, vol. 31/1, s. 37–46.
Kaczmarek J. (2003), Positive and negative Properties. A Logical
Interpretation, Bulletin of
the Section of Logic, vol. 32/4, s. 179–189.
Kripke S. (1972), Naming and Necessity, [w]: Dawidson, Harman
(eds), Semantics of Natural
Language, Reidel, Dordrecht, s. 253–355. [Wyd. pol. 2001,
Nazywanie a konieczność,
Wyd. Aletheia, s. 228].
Wittgenstein L. (1997), Tractatus logico-philosophicus, tłum. i wstęp
B. Wolniewicz, BKF,
PWN, Warszawa, s. 109. [Wyd. I, oryg., 1921), Logisch –
philosophische Abhandlung,
Annalen der Naturphilosophie].
Wolff Ch. (1789), Philosophia prima sive Ontologia methodo
scientifica pertractata qua omnis cognitionis humanae principia
continentur, Veronae, por. Pars I, Caput III: De notione
entis, tłum. M. Rosiak, par. 142.
Zalta E. N. (1983), Abstract Objects. An Introduction to Axiomatic
Metaphisics, Dordrecht,
Boston, Lancaster.
Field of study Philosophy, Ontology, Metaphysics
Course title 9. Happiness – philosophy and science behind
well-being
Form Seminar or tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / postgraduate
(doctoral)
Year/semester 2017/2018 winter semester
ECTS 6
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Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content 1. Happiness as a philosophical concept – from ancient Greece to
modern times
a) what is happiness?
b) how does happiness differ from pleasure?
c) is happiness the opposite of pain?
c) arguments for and against hedonism
2. What can neuroscience tell us about happiness, pleasure and pain?
3. Happiness, psychology and economy – how our knowledge can
influence our economic choices.
Assessment scheme active participation, presentation or essay
Lecturer
Contact
Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek
Scientific interests Practical ethics, moral problems of globalization, animal rights,
bioethics, utilitarianism, philosophy of Henry Sidgwick and Peter
Singer
USOS code
Literature G. Fletcher, Well-being, Routledge, 2016.
Well-being: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology, ed. D.
Kahneman, Russell Sage Foundation (February 13, 2003)
J. Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis, Basic Books, 2006.
Field of study Philosophy/Ethics
Course title 10. Hauptströmungen der europäischen Ethik
(Main currents of the european ethics) Form Seminar or tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2017/2018 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
German
No. of hours 30
Course content Im Rahmen des Tutorials werden Grundtypen ethischer Theorien
sowie Grundformen moralischer Argumentation besprochen. Für das
europäische Denken sind zwei Modelle normativer Ethik von
grundlegender Bedeutung: ein teleologischer und ein deontologischer
Ansatz. Die Lektüre von Auszügen aus klassischen Texten von
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Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Kant und Mill wird einen Einblick in
Paradigmen des ethischen Denkens und ein besseres Verständnis in
den Sinn und die Ursachen vieler zeitgenössischen
Auseinandersetzungen ethischer Art.
Assessment scheme Aktive Teilnahme (erbracht durch Referat etc.)
Lecturer
Contact
Andrzej Maciej Kaniowski
andrzej.kaniowski@ uni.lodz.pl
Scientific interests Geschichte der Ethik, Sozialphilosophie und politische Philosophie,
Bioethik, Jürgen Habermas und die Frankfurter Schule, Ethik als
Schulfach, Kants Ethik und Rechtsphilosophie
USOS code 0200-ERAS084
Literature Ausgewählte Passagen und Auszüge aus den Schriften von Aristotle,
Thomas Aquinas, Kant und Mill.
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
Course title 11. History of Logic
Form Seminar or tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / postgraduate
(doctoral)
Year/semester 2017/2018 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content The history of logic studies the development of logical ideas from pre-
Socratic philosophers to the present. The intent of the course is to
provide students with a thorough knowledge of the development.
Details:
1. Logic in Ancient Philosophy (Pre-Socratic philosophers; Soctares
and Plato; Aristotle's logic; Megarians, Stoics and Skepticism)
2. Medieval Logic (Boethius; 2. St. Anselm and Peter Abelard; James
of Venice; William of Ockham and his Summa logicae; Modalities in
the Middle Ages)
3. Renaissance (Petrus Ramus and his Dialectics; Juan Luis Vives and
the logical symbolism)
4. Post-Renaissance (Port-Royal Logic; G.W. Leibniz and symbolic
logic; J.H. Lambert and L. Euler)
5. The 19th century logic (A. De Morgan; G. Boole and mathematical
logic; G. Frege and classical symbolic logic; G. Cantor’s set theory)
6. Logic of the 20th centuary (Principia Mathematica; Zermelo-
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Fraenkel Set Theory; Lvov-Warsaw School of Logic; K. Goedel;
Non-classical Logics)
Assessment scheme Marked paper
Lecturer
Contact
Scientific interests Philosophy, Logic, Psychology
USOS code 0200-ERAS061
Literature 1. Bochenski, I.M., A History of Formal Logic, Notre Dame press,
1961.
2. Gabbay, Dov and John Woods, (eds), Handbook of the History of
Logic, Elsevier, 2004.
3. Haaparanta, Leila (ed.), The Development of Modern Logic Oxford
University Press, 2009.
4. Kneale, William and Martha, The development of logic, Oxford
University Press, 1962.
Field of study Philosophy
Course title 12. Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology
Form Seminar or tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / postgraduate
(doctoral)
Year/semester 2017/2018 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content The JTB account of knowledge.
A priori and a posteriori knowledge.
The analytic-synthetic distinction (with application to mathematics).
Epistemic versus traditional deontological justification.
Internalism: foundationalism and coherentism.
Externalism: reliabilism
Assessment scheme Active participation
Lecturer
Contact
Marek Nowak
Scientific interests Mathematical logic and set theory,
Philosophy of language: pragmatics
Epistemology
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USOS code
Literature R. Chisholm, The Foundations of Knowing, University of
Minnesota Press 1982
R. Chisholm, Theory of Knowledge (3rd ed.), Prentice-Hall
1989
Steup M., An introduction to contemporary epistemology,
Prentice-Hall 1998
R. Audi, Epistemology. A contemporary introduction to the
theory of knowledge (2nd ed.), Routledge 2003
Field of study Philosophy
Course title 13. Introduction to phenomenological ontology
Form Seminar or tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / postgraduate
(doctoral)
Year/semester 2017/2018 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content Basic course in phenomenological ontology
Assessment scheme Regular attendance, activity and/or written work
Lecturer
Contact
Marek Rosiak, PhD
Scientific interests Ontology, phenomenology, transcendental philosophy, philosophy of
music
USOS code 0200-ERAS066
Literature Ingarden R., The Controversy over the existence of the world vol. I
Mitscherling J., Roman Ingarden’s Ontology and Aesthetics, Univ. of
Ottawa Press, 1997
Field of study Philosophy
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Course title 14. Introduction to Philosophy of Religion
Form Seminar or tutorial
Level of
course
Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / postgraduate
(doctoral)
Year/semester 2017/2018 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
Active participation
Lecturer
Contact
Tomasz Sieczkowski
Scientific
interests
Philosophy of Religion, Epistemology, Social and Political
Philosophy, Philosophy of Popular Culture.
USOS code
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 Philosophy
Course title 15. Introduction to political philosophy
Form Seminar or tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s)
Year/semester 2017/2018 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
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Course content The course is devoted to major problems of political philosophy (such as: the nature
of justice, source of the law, obligations of a state, the extent of personal freedom
etc.) answered from the viewpoint of different philosophers (like, inter alia, Plato,
Aristotle, Machiavelli, Smith, Bentham, Marx, Rawls, Nozick) and major political
ideologies (such as, inter alia, liberalism, conservatism, socialism, communism).
As an important part of the course students, together with the lecturer, will attempt
to answer the question of how adequately concrete elements of these philosophies
fit in the contemporary political reality.
During the course the following topics will be discussed:
1. Liberty as a political value
Problems:
- various definitions of liberty
- optimal scope for personal freedom
- concepts of „negative” and „positive” liberty
- mutual relations between personal freedom and public opinion/government
- liberty's dependency on power
- ways of coordinating different people's liberties
Literature:
- J.S. Mill, On liberty, Introductory chapter.
- I. Berlin, Two concepts of liberty.
Supplementary literature:
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu), entry: Positive
and negative liberty (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberty-positive-negative/).
2. Securing justice as a state's duty
Problems:
- the notions of distributive and retributive justice
- justice as „fairness”
- various criteria of just distribution of goods
- consistency of the concept of „veil of ignorance”
- „goals” of justice
- justice as a basis of law
Literature:
- J. Rawls, Justice as fairness.
- R. Nozick, Distributive justice.
Supplementary literature:
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu), entries: Justice as
a virtue (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice-virtue/), Distributive justice
(http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice-distributive/).
3. Justification of the state
Problems:
- the concept of the „state of nature”
- the concept of the „social contract”
- the liberty-security opposition
- the problem of state's coercion
- possibility of abandoning a state
- mutual relations between state and society
Literature:
- T. Hobbes, Leviathan (excerpts).
- J. Locke, Second treatise of civil government (excerpts).
- J.J. Rousseau, The social contract (excerpts).
- D. Gauthier, The social contract as ideology.
Supplementary literature:
- J. Wolff, An introduction to political philosophy, chapter 2: Justifying the state.
4. Democracy and its alternatives
Problems:
- contemporary alternatives to democratic systems
- division between public and private sphere
- desired „weights” of individual votes in democratic systems
- the problem of proportional representation
- admissible forms of clashing opposed views in democracy
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- the problem of maturity of democracy
Literature:
- C. Sunstein, Preferences and politics.
- A. Phillips, Dealing with difference: A politics of ideas or a politics of presence.
- Plato, The republic (excerpts).
Supplementary literature:
- J. Wolff, An introduction to political philosophy, chapter 3: Who should rule.
Assessment scheme 1 end of course reflective essay
Lecturer
Contact
Scientific interests I am mainly interested in formal logic, with particular focus on
modal, description and hybrid logics, decidability and computational
complexity. However, my interests also comprise theory of
argumentation, political philosophy, philosophy of mind and various
fields of mathematics.
USOS code 0200-ERAS052
Literature
Textbook:
J. Wolff, An Introduction to Political Philosophy, Oxford University
Press 2006.
Anthology of original texts:
S. Cahn, Political Philosophy: The Essential Texts, Oxford University
Press 2010.
Field of study Philosophy
Course title 16. Introduction to process philosophy
Form Seminar or tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / postgraduate
(doctoral)
Year/semester 2017/2018 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content Systematical and historical introduction
Leibniz’s Monadology
Elements of A. N. Whitehead’s process metaphysics
Assessment scheme Regular attendance, activity and/or written work
Lecturer
Contact
Marek Rosiak
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Scientific interests Ontology, phenomenology, transcendental philosophy, philosophy of
music
USOS code 0200-ERAS067
Literature Leibniz, Monadology
Whitehead A. N.,.Process and Reality. An Essay in Cosmology,
Corrected Edition, The Free Press, N. Y. 1978
Christian W. A., An Interpretation of Whitehead’s Metaphysics, Yale
Univ. Press, New Haven 1959
Field of study Philosophy
Course title 17. Issues in Philosophy of Religion
Form Seminar or tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s)
Year/semester 2017/2018 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
Marek Gensler [email protected]
Scientific interests Ancient & Medieval philosophy, Philosophy of religion, Philosophy
of nature
USOS code 0200-ERAS043
Literature Brian Davis (ed.), Philosophy of Religion. An Anthology, Oxford
2000
Field of study Philosophy
Course title 18. John Searle`s philosophy of mind
Form Seminar or tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s)
Year/semester 2017/2018 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content John Searle is one of the most famous and honorable contemporary
philosopher. In order to solve the puzzles mind-body relationship he
has proposed an original concept - biological naturalism. During the
course we will verify John Searle assumptions and we will
concentrate on his propositions regarding following topics:
materialism, consciousness, the mind-body problem, intentionality,
mental causation, free will, and the self.
Assessment scheme Active participation
Lecturer
Contact
Rafał Tryścień
Scientific interests Philosophy of mind, Analytic philosophy, Analytic philosophy of
religion
USOS code
Literature Searle J., Mind: A Brief Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
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Course title 19. Mental experiments and personal identity
Form Seminar or tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s)
Year/semester 2017/2018 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content The problem of personal identity through time is one of the most
significant for human beings. Researchers done by philosophers
regarding logical analysis identity problem, ontological
considerations the possibility of part-whole relation are enriched by
mental experiments. During the course we will deal with several
prominent mental experiments and based in it we will consider its
useful to solve personal identity problem.
Assessment scheme Active participation
Lecturer
Contact
Rafał Tryścień
Scientific interests Philosophy of mind, Analytic philosophy, Analytic philosophy of
religion
USOS code
Literature 1. Garret, B. Personal identity and self-consciousness, Routledge,
London and New York 1998.
2. Noonan H. W., Personal Identity, Routledge, London and New
York 2003.
3. Coleman S.. Thought experiments and personal identity,
Philosophical Studies 98, 2000, 53–69.
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
Course title 20. Metaphysics and Ontology
Form Seminar or tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor) / graduate (master) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2017/2018 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
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No. of hours 30
Course content 1) metaphysics, ontology and prote philosophia,
2) categories,
3) objects, state of affairs, events
4) whole and parts
5) analytical metaphysics and formal ontology
Assessment scheme active participation, term paper
Lecturer
Contact
Janusz Kaczmarek
Scientific interests Ontology, formal ontology, cognitive science, human will, God in
philosophy, philosophy of language
USOS code
Literature Aristotle, Metaphysics (fragments),
Copleston F., A History of Philosophy (fragments),
Kim J., Sosa E., A companion to Metaphysics (different
entries),
Wittgenstein L., Tractatus Logico – Philosophicus,
Wolniewicz B., Logic and Metaphysics,
and other fragments from ontological papers
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
Course title 21. Methodology of Social Research
Form Seminar or tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / postgraduate
(doctoral)
Year/semester 2017/2018 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course Content I. What is Methodology of Social Research? - and What is Research?
1. Objectives and Motivation of Social Research
2. Types of Social Research
4. Significance of Research
II. Research and Scientific Method
1. Research Process
2. Components of Research
3. Criteria of Good Research
4. Purposes of Research
- exploration (formulative research)
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- description (descriptive research)
- explanation (causal research).
III. Methods: one or many?
IV. Ethical issues
V. Units of Analysis and Potential errors involving misuse of unit of
analysis
Assessment scheme Marked paper
Lecturer
Contact
Scientific interests Philosophy, Logic, Psychology
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 Philosophy
Course title 22. Modal logics: from a simple theory to a
variety of possible applications
Form Seminar or tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / postgraduate
(doctoral)
Year/semester 2017/2018 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content Contemporary modal logic is a powerful formal tool for grasping a whole plethora
of areas of reasoning. Contrary to its very beginning, when modal operators ◊ and □
stood for, respectively, “it is possible” and “it is necessary”, today, by means of
modal logics, we can represent knowledge, flow of time, spatial relations, games
etc. During the course students will be familiarized with modal logic as a rather
general theory of relational systems. The first part of the course will cover basic
theoretic topics, such as:
− modal semantics (relational semantics: Kripke structures, models; other types of
semantics);
− modal axioms;
− decidability and computational complexity of modal logics.
In the second part, we will focus on concrete modal logics and we will discuss how
accurately they formalize particular areas of reasoning. We will take a closer look at
the following logics:
− modal logic of knowledge (epistemic logic, doxastic logic);
− modal logic of time (temporal logic);
− modal logic of games;
− modal logic of computer programs and dynamic systems (propositional dynamic
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logic, dynamic epistemic logic).
The final part of the course will bring some discussion on how to develop new
modal logics, which would appropriately formalize desirable phenomena and, at the
same time, would remain computationally tractable.
Assessment scheme 2 courseworks, each one consisting of a set of logical problems to
solve
Lecturer
Contact
Scientific interests I am mainly interested in formal logic, with particular focus on
modal, description and hybrid logics, decidability and computational
complexity. However, my interests also comprise theory of
argumentation, political philosophy, philosophy of mind and various
fields of mathematics.
USOS code 0200-ERAS092
Literature Textbook:
1. J. van Benthem, Modal Logic for Open Minds, CSLI Lecture
Notes, No. 199, Apr. 2010.
Supplementary literature:
2. P. Blackburn, M. de Rijke, Y. Venema, Modal Logic, Cambridge
University Press 2002.
3. P. Blackburn, J. van Benthem, F. Wolter (eds.), Handbook of Modal
Logic, Elsevier 2007.
Field of study Philosophy
Course title 23. Mythology and Philosophy in Richard
Wagner’s Musical Works, part I Form Seminar or tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / postgraduate
(doctoral)
Year/semester 2017/2018 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content Analysis of ideological and philosophical contents of Richard
Wagner’s operas and musical dramas:
The Flying Dutchman, Tannhauser, Lohengrin, Ring of Niblung.
The course contains musical illustrations aimed at showing how
abstract ideas have been expressed in music.
Assessment scheme Regular attendance, activity and/or written work
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Lecturer
Contact
Marek Rosiak
Scientific interests Ontology, phenomenology, transcendental philosophy, philosophy of
music
USOS code 0200-ERAS096
Literature Dahlhaus C., Wagner
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Newman E, The Life of Richard Wagner
Shaw G. B., The Perfect Wagnerite
Field of study Philosophy
Course title 24. Mythology and Philosophy in Richard
Wagner’s Musical Works, part II Form Seminar or tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / postgraduate
(doctoral)
Year/semester 2017/2018 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content More detailed analysis of ideological and philosophical contents of
Richard Wagner’s works:
Tristan and Isolde, Meistersingers of Nuremberg, Parsifal.
The course contains musical illustrations aimed at showing how
abstract ideas have been expressed in music.
Assessment scheme Regular attendance, activity and/or written work
Lecturer
Contact
Marek Rosiak
Scientific interests Ontology, phenomenology, transcendental philosophy, philosophy of
music
USOS code 0200_ERAS097
Literature Dahlhaus C., Wagner
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Newman E, The Life of Richard Wagner
Shaw G. B., The Perfect Wagnerite
Field of study Philosophy
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Course title 25. New Atheism as a Worldview
Form Seminar or tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / postgraduate
(doctoral)
Year/semester 2017/2018 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content Philosophical overview of the so called neoatheistic worldview,
concentrating on figures such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris,
Daniel C. Dennett and A.C. Grayling. Analysis of the three main
dimensions of neoatheistic thinking: the supremacy of science, the
political agenda, and the ethical project of humanism.
Assessment scheme Active participation
Lecturer
Contact
Scientific interests Philosophy of Religion, Epistemology, Social and Political
Philosophy, Philosophy of Popular Culture.
USOS code
Literature Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
A.C. Grayling, The God Argument
Daniel Dennett, Breaking the Spell. Religion as Natural Phenomena
Field of study Philosophy
Course title 26. Paraconsistent Logic
Form Seminar or tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / postgraduate
(doctoral)
Year/semester 2017/2018 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content 1. Paraconsistent Logics (PL): Philosophical background
2. PL as non-classical logics
3. Imaginary Logic ans Orlov's system
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4. Discursive logic
5. Da Costa's Idea of paraconsistency
6. Adaptive logics
7. Many-valuedness and PL
8. Relevant logics and PL
9. Dialetheism
10. Logics of Formal Inconsistency
11. Methodology of PL
Assessment scheme Marked paper
Lecturer
Contact
Scientific interests Philosophy, Logic, Psychology
USOS code 0200-ERAS032
Literature 1. Priest, G., Routley, R., and Norman, J. (eds.) (1989). Paraconsistent
Logic: Essays on the Inconsistent, München: Philosophia Verlag.
2. Priest, G. (2002). “Paraconsistent Logic,” Handbook of
Philosophical Logic (Second Edition), Vol. 6, D. Gabbay and F.
Guenthner (eds.), Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
3. Beziau, J.-Y., W. Carnielli, D. Gabbay (eds.) (2007). Handbook of
Paraconsistency, London: College Publications.
Field of study Philosophy
Course title 27. Personal identity – contemporary discussions
Form Seminar or tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s)
Year/semester 2017/2018 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content The problem of personal identity through time is one of the most
significant for human beings. Am I the same person that I was when I
was a 5 year old child, or maybe today I am a completely different
person? If I am the same person, what connect me with the previous
person - the same body, the continuity of memory or maybe the
substantial soul? During the course we will analyze selected texts on
personal identity in time, especially criteria of personal identity -
body, memory, psychological continuity, substantial soul. Our
approach will start with seeing differences between Simple View,
Complex View and Not-so-simple View (also called The Constitution
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View) as fundamental positions in discussion.
Assessment scheme Active participatio
Lecturer
Contact
Rafał Tryścień
Scientific interests Philosophy of mind, Analytic philosophy, Analytic philosophy of
religion
USOS code
Literature 1. Ayer A. J., The Problem of Knowledge, Penguin Books Ltd.
Chapter V, points1, 2.
2. Baker L. R., Personal identity: a not-so-simple simple view, [in:]
Gasser G. Stefan M. (Red.), Personal identity: Complex or
Simple?, Cambridge University Press 2012.
3. Parfit D., Reason and Persons, Chapter 10, 11.
4. Quinton A., The Soul, The Journal of Philosophy, July 1962, 53-
72.
5. Robinson J., Personal identity and Survival, [in:] The Journal of
Philosophy, June 1988, 319-329.
6. Shoemaker S., Personal identity and Memory, [in:] S. Shoemaker,
J. Perry J., Personal identity, University of California Press,
Berkeley, 1975, 119-134.
7. Swinburne R., Personal Identity, [in:] Proceedings of Aristotelian
Society, May 1974, 231-247.
Field of study Philosophy
Course title 28. Philosophical Anthropology
Form Seminar or tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor) / graduate (master) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2017/2018 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content 1. The ideas of anthropology and human being given by Aristotle,
Thomas, Kant, Scheler, Hartmann and other will be presented and
discussed, (and also):
2. Anthropology and ontology
3. Anthropology and ethics
Assessment scheme active participation, term paper or oral presentation
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Lecturer
Contact
Janusz Kaczmarek
Scientific interests Ontology, formal ontology, cognitive science, human will, God in
philosophy, philosophy of language
USOS code
Literature Eike Hinz, Outline of a Philosophical Anthropology, 2006
Gilson E., History of Christian Philosophy in the Middle Ages,
1985
Aristotle, Thomas, Kant, Scheler and others – fragments of
writtings
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
Course title 29. Philosophical Theories of Part and Whole
Form Seminar or tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / postgraduate
(doctoral)
Year/semester 2017/2018 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content Presentation and analysis of most important contemporary
philosophical part-whole theories. Contains theories of Franz
Brentano, Casimir Twardowski, Edmund Husserl and Roman
Ingarden
Assessment scheme Regular attendance, activity and/or written work
Lecturer
Contact
Marek Rosiak
Scientific interests Ontology, phenomenology, transcendental philosophy, philosophy of
music
USOS code 0200-ERAS087
Literature The Handbook of Mereology, ed. Hans Burkhardt and oths
Field of study Philosophy
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Course title 30. Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Form Seminar or tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor) / graduate (master) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2017/2018 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content 1. What is cognitive science
2. Developement of cognitive science
3. Main topics in cognitive science: artificial intelligence, neural
networks, neurophysiology, brain mapping, perception,
memory, problem solving, deficit studies, models of mind, etc.
4. Philosophy of cognitive science: identity theories,
functionalism, mind-body problem, problem of intentionality
5. Cognitive linguistics: conceptual metaphor theory and
metaphorical thinking.
Assessment scheme Regular attendance, activity, and presentation
Lecturer
Contact
Janusz Maciaszek
Scientific interests Philosophy of language, philosophy of action, theory of metaphor,
cognitive science
USOS code
Literature Bechtel, W. and G. Graham (eds.) 1999 A Companion to
Cognitive Science.
Blackwell Publishers.
Clark, A. 2001 Mindware. An Introduction to the philosophy of
Cognitive Science. Oxford University Press.
Evans, V. and M. Green 2006 Cognitive Lingusitics. An
Introduction. Edinburgh University Press.
Field of study/
programme
Philosophy
Course title 31. Philosophy of Language
Form Seminar or tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor) / graduate (master) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2017/2018 winter semester
30
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content The aim of the couse is to present brief history and 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)
Pragmatisc of natural language – L. Wittgenstein on linguistic
games
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
Janusz Maciaszek
Scientific interests Philosophy of language, philosophy of action, theory of metaphor,
cognitive science
USOS code 0200-ERAS041
Literature Austin, J. L. 1962 How to Do Things with Words. Oxford:
Clerendon Press.
Grice, H. P. 1975 Logic and Conversation. W: P. Cole i J.
Morgan (red.) Syntax and Semantics, vol. 3, Academic Press:
London.
Hale, B. and C. Wright (eds.) 1997 A Companion to the
Philosophy of Language. Blackwell Publishing.
Kripke, S. 1980 Naming and Necessity. Oxford. Blackwell
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 32. Posthumanism and Human Nature
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Form Seminar or tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / postgraduate
(doctoral)
Year/semester 2017/2018 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content 1. Dystopic posthumanism
2. Liberal posthumanism and transhumanism
3. Transhumanism and religion
4. Political transhumanism
5. Radical posthumanism
Assessment scheme Oral assessment
Lecturer
Contact
Dawid Misztal, PhD
Scientific interests Philosophical anthropology, Posthumanism (especially
transhumanism), philosophy of culture, social philosophy
USOS code
Literature 1. Sharon, T. (2014), Human Nature in an Age of Biotechnology.
The Case for Mediated Posthumanism, Dodrecht: Springer.
2. Fukuyama, F. (2003), Our Posthuman Future. Consequences
of the Biotechnology Revolution, New York: Farrar, Straus and
Giroux.
3. Hughes, J. (2007), Compatibility of Religious and
Transhumanist Views of Metaphysics, Suffering, Virtue and
Transcendence in an Enhanced Future,
http://ieet.org/archive/20070326-Hughes-ASU-
H+Religion.pdf
4. Hughes, J. (2012). The Politics of Transhumanism and the
Techno-Millennial Imagination 1629-2030, W: Zygon: Journal
of Religion and Science, vol. 47, no. 4, s. 757-776.
Field of study Philosophy
Course title 33. Practical ethics
Form Seminar or tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / postgraduate
(doctoral)
Year/semester 2017/2018 winter semester
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ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content The course will cover the most interesting problems in contemporary
ethics debate:
Life and death issues: abortion, euthanasia, killing at war
Enhancing evolution: human genetic enhancement
Effective altruism: our obligation to help those in need
New technology: should we worry about superinteligence?
Climate change and ethics
Assessment scheme active participation, presentation or essay
Lecturer
Contact
Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek
Scientific interests Practical ethics, moral problems of globalization, animal rights,
bioethics, utilitarianism, philosophy of Henry Sidgwick, philosophy
of Peter Singer
USOS code
Literature P. Singer, Practical Ethics, Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Bioethics: An Anthology, ed. H. Kushe, Blackwell, 2015.
J. McMahan, Ethics of Killing, OUP 2003.
W. MacAskill, Doing Good Better - Effective Altruism And a
Radical Way to Make a Difference . Guardian Faber, 2015.
N. Bostrom, Superinteligence, OUP 2014.
D. Jamieson, Ethics and the Environment, CUP, 2008.
Field of study Philosophy/ Ethics
Course title 34. Rhetoric and argumentation
Form Seminar or tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / postgraduate
(doctoral)
Year/semester 2017/2018 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content In everyday life we often find ourselves in a situation in which we discuss certain
issues with our interlocutor and even though we feel that (s)he is wrong with her
statements, we cannot tell why. Frequently it is the case that the interlocutor is only
rhetorically more skillful than us and despite the fact that we are substantially right
in our opinions, it suffices for him (her) to win a discussion.
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During the course we are going to learn how to identify unfair arguments in a
discussion. We will also investigate the structure of arguments and distinguish these
constituents of an argument, whose violation results in a fallacy (or an unfair trick).
In the end, we will get to know different classifications of (both correct and
incorrect) arguments and we will name and discuss the most important types of
them.
A substantial part of the course will be devoted to thought errors we tend to commit
in everyday reasoning (which is one of the causes of our vulnerability to unfair
arguments exploited in discussions). One of them is known under the name of
conjunction fallacy and was primarily described by Daniel Kahneman in his book
“Thinking fast and slow”, in which he presented the following experiment: a
fictional figure, Linda, was pictured to a group of students as follows: “Linda is 31
years old, single, outspoken, and very bright. She majored in philosophy. As a
student, she was deeply concerned with issues of discrimination and social justice,
and also participated in anti-nuclear demonstrations.” Afterwards, the students were
asked which is more probable:
a) Linda is a bank teller
b) Linda is a bank teller and is active in the feminist movement.
Even though a) is correct by the sole structure of both answers, and we do not need
to refer to our knowledge about the external world to find it out, 90% of
respondents picked the second option!
It turns out that in everyday reasoning we tend to make a lot of such thinking errors.
Some of them are of logical nature – we draw conclusions from premises
improperly, other consist in, e.g., not paying enough attention to premises one
accepts.
During the course we will systematically track and classify different kinds of
fallacies committed in everyday reasoning, and will learn how to avoid them.
Assessment scheme 2 courseworks, each one consisting of a set of argumentation
problems to solve
Lecturer
Contact
Scientific interests I am mainly interested in formal logic, with particular focus on
modal, description and hybrid logics, decidability and computational
complexity. However, my interests also comprise theory of
argumentation, political philosophy, philosophy of mind and various
fields of mathematics.
USOS code 0200-ERAS069
Literature K. Ajdukiewicz, Pragmatic Logic, Reidel 1974.
D. Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2012.
A. Schopenhauer, The Art of Always Being Right, Gibson Square
Books 2009.
Field of study Philosophy
Course title 35. Speech Act Theory
Form Seminar or tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / postgraduate
(doctoral)
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Year/semester 2017/2018 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content Performative sentences. Locutionary, perlocutionary and illocutionary
acts due to Austin.
Illocutionary force according to Searle. A taxonomy of illocutionary
acts.
Illocutionary logic of Vanderveken
Assessment scheme Active participation
Lecturer
Contact
Marek Nowak
Scientific interests Mathematical logic and set theory,
Philosophy of language: pragmatics
Epistemology
USOS code
Literature J. L. Austin, How to Do Things with Words, Clarendon Press
1962
J.L. Austin, Performative Utterances [in:] Philosphical Papers,
Oxford UP 1979, 233-292
J. R. Searle, Speech Acts, Cambridge 1969
J.R. Searle, Expression and Meaning, Cambridge UP 1979
J. R. Searle, D. Vanderveken, Foundations of illocutionary
logic, Cambridge UP 1985
D. Vanderveken, Meaning and Speech Acts, Cambridge UP
1990-91
Field of study Philosophy
Course title 36. Theories of Metaphor
Form Seminar or tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor) / graduate (master) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2017/2018 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
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Course content 1. What is metaphor?
2. Metaphor as a problem of philosophy of language, philology
and rhetorics
3. Metaphor versus other figures of speech (metonymy, irony,
allusion)
4. Traditional approches to metaphor
5. Theory of metaphorical communication (P. Grice, J. Searle, and
A. P. Martinich)
6. M. Black and theory of metaphorical meaning (nteraction
theory of metaphor)
7. Causal theory of metaphor (D. Davidson and R. Rorty)
8. Conceptual metaphor theory and its applications
9. Extralinguistic metaphors
Assessment scheme Class attendance, active participation, presentation or essay.
Lecturer
Contact
Janusz Maciaszek
Scientific interests Philosophy of language, philosophy of action, theory of metaphor,
cognitive science
USOS code 0200-ERAS042
Literature 1. Davidson, D. 1978 What Metaphors Mean. „Critical Inquiry”
5, 31 - 47. Przedruk w: Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation.
Oxford: Clerendon Press., 2001: 245 – 64.
2. Kövecses, Z. 2010 Metaphor. A Practical Introduction. Oxford
University Press.
3. Lakoff, G. i M. Johnson 1980 Metaphors We Live By. Chicago:
Chicago University Press.
4. Martinich, A. P. 1984 A Theory of Metaphor. „Journal of
Literary Semantics”, 13, 35 – 56. Przedruk w: Martinich The
Philosophy of Language. New York: Oxford University Press,
2001: 447 – 58
5. 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 37. Ut pictura poesis - street art between text and
picture Form Seminar or tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / postgraduate
(doctoral)
Year/semester 2017/2018 winter semester
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ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content The course offers an overview of urban art movement in context of
words and pictures relationships. Separately will be discussed issues
of graffiti tags, political stencils in Poland, visual poetry in street art.
The basis for the analysis of urban art will be a classic concepts in the
theory of art: ut pictura poesis, emblems, synaesthesia.
Assessment scheme Evaluation is based on: (1) students preparation for the class (reading
appointments), (2) active participation, (3) final presentation (Power
Point) of street art pieces.
Lecturer
Contact
Agnieszka Gralińska-Toborek
Scientific interests Aesthetics, theory of art, critical theory; urban art
USOS code
Literature Baudrillard Jean, Kool Killer or The Insurrection of Signs,
[in:] idem, Symbolic Exchange and Death, Sage, London
1993.
Benjamin Juarez, The visual and social indeterminacy of
pixação: the inextricable moods of São Paulo, Street Art &
Urban Creativity Scientific Journal, vol.2 (2-16),no.1
Gombrich E.H., Image and Word in Twentieth-Century Art.,
[w:] Topics of Our Time.Twentieth-Century issues in Learning
and in Art., Oxford 1994, p.163-187
Park R., „Ut Pictura Poesis”: The Nineteenth-Century
Aftermath, „Journal of Aesthetics and Art. Criticism”, vol. 28
(Winter 1969), p. 155-69
Petrucci A., [in] Public Lettering: Script, Power, and Culture,
chapter one: Writing and the city, The University of Chicago
press, 1993.
Saisselin R.G., Ut Pictura Poesis: Dubos to Diderot, „Journal
of Aesthetics and Art. Criticism”, 20 (1961) p. 145-156
Field of study Philosophy, Art history
Course title 38. Vegetarianism. Social and Cultural Aspects
Form Seminar or tutorial
Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / postgraduate
(doctoral)
37
Year/semester 2017/2018 winter semester
ECTS 6
Language of
instruction
English
No. of hours 30
Course content Introduction to Wegetarianism (philosophical background, the history
of development, ethical and social aspects, etc.)
Details:
I. Vegetarianism (general introduction)
- Definition
- Philosophy
- Pros and cons of vegetarianism
II. History of Vegetarianism
- Origins in the West
- Vegetarianism and Orthodox Christianity
- European Renaissance and Christian vegetarianism
- Vegetarianism vs. Cartesian Thought
- Vegetarianism in the Age of Enlightenment
III. Vegetarianism and the Environment
IV. Speciesism
V. Issue of Animal Rights
- Peter Singer and Utilitarism
- Tom Regan and Subjects-of-a-life
- RG Frey
- Carl Cohen's arguments against animal rights
Assessment scheme Marked paper
Lecturer
Contact
Scientific interests Philosophy, Logic, Psychology
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. Peter Singer, Animal Liberation
3. Colin Spencer, Vegetarianism: A History, Da Capo Press, 2004
4. Andrew Linzey, Animal Theology, University of Illinois Press,
1995.
Field of study Philosophy