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Philosophy
Undergraduate and graduate programme
The programme of study: philosophy at the JU Institute of Philosophy offers the following courses in English (descriptions from the Institute of Philosophy website):
- Metaphilosophy Prof. dr hab. Jan Woleński
The main task of this course is information about main conceptions of philosophy since the beginning of the 20th century. This topic will be discussed form historical as well as philosophical point of view. Phenomenology as an example of continental philosophy and analytic philosophy will be taken as historical examples. The systematic part includes relations between philosophy and other fields (science, religion, art, politics, etc.) and philosophical argumentation.
- Basic issues in phenomenology - translatorium Dr Jarosław Olesiak
The purpose of the course is to acquire the ability to read and translate English philosophical texts and to take part in discussions in English. The course will be devoted to basic issues in phenomenology. An intermediate knowledge of English is required.
- Basic issues in Aristotle's philosophy – translatorium Dr Jarosław Olesiak
The course will be conducted in seminar form. The purpose of the course is to acquire the ability to read and translate English philosophical texts and to take part in discussions in English. The course will be devoted to basic issues in Aristotle's philosophy.
An intermediate knowledge of English is required.
- Philosophical Thinking after Wittgenstein Dr Carl Humphries
The first part of this course outlines the key features of Wittgenstein's later approach to philosophical thinking. The second part focuses on the work of some contemporary philosophers who have continued this approach in interesting and original ways. In the third part, participants in the course are encouraged to use similar methods to explore philosophical issues for themselves.
- Wittgenstein and Analytical Philosophy Dr Carl Humphries
This seminar course attempts to understand the broad significance for contemporary philosophy of Wittgenstein's thinking at each stage of its development, through an examination of the relationship between its principal ideas and those of mainstream analytical philosophy, understood in a relatively non-technical way. No specialised knowledge is necessary, but a general familiarity with basic philosophical issues is desirable. The first part of the course compares Wittgenstein's Tractatus to the ideas of other early analytical philosophers, including Frege, Russell and the logical positivists. The second part compares his later philosophy to that of philosophers who worked in Britain at the same time as him or studied with him. The third part considers the contrasts between Wittgenstein's philosophy and dominant developments in 20th century American philosophy of mind and language. In the fourth part his work is reassessed in the light of late 20th century analytical philosophy, in which a return to metaphysical concerns may be observed.
Each seminar takes the form of a discussion, based on articles or short extracts from texts by the philosophers under discussion, which students are expected to have read in advance.
More information about these and other courses is available at:
http://www.iphils.uj.edu.pl/?l=pl&p=2&r=17&s=999&k=999
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