Annotation
This is a very basic, ancillary course which aims at reading and discussing philosophical articles (or shorter chapters) that are deemed important in various areas of contemporary philosophy. The topics of the articles are not necessarily related. In the upcoming summer semester we will read and discuss the following articles:
Frege, Gottlob, “On Concept and Object”, Mind, New Series, Vol. 60, No. 238 (Apr., 1951), pp. 168-180.
Russell, Bertrand, “ Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description”, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society New Series, Vol. 11 (1910 - 1911), pp. 108-128.
Chalmers, David, “Consciousness and its Place in Nature” in Chalmers, D. (ed.) Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 247-272.
Jackson, Frank, “Epiphenomenal Qualia” in Chalmers, D. (ed.) Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 273-280.
If there is enough time, we will read and discuss further articles as well. These will be selected based on the interests of participating students.
Students will get credits for attending the class (three absences tolerated), reading the texts in the class, having a short presentation in the class on a problem connected with the texts we are going to read, and writing a short paper (3-4 “Word” pages, 1,5 line spacing) on a selected text of their own choice related to the topics we are going to discuss. The final grades will be given based on a final discussion of the paper .
The articles we are going to read and other related materials can be found in the Charles university moodle folder here: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=5180