Subject description - AD0M16FI2
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| AD0M16FI2 |
Philosophy II |
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Extent of teaching: | 14+6s |
| Department: | 13116 |
Language of teaching: | CS |
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Completion: | Z,ZK |
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Credits: | 4 |
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Semester: | L |
Web page:
https://ekonom.feld.cvut.cz/cs/student/predmety/filozofie-2
Anotation:
The course is oriented on the transdisciplinar aspects of philosophy, informatics, physics, mathematics and biology.
Course outlines:
| 1. | | Introduction - explanation of basic concepts and problems. Role of language on the way of thinking. |
| 2. | | Common roots of science and philosophy (myths, fairytales, religion, philosophical and scientific thinking). |
| 3. | | Relation between technology and art. |
| 4. | | Philosophical aspects of informatics. |
| 5. | | Philosophical aspects of mathematics and cybernetics. Can machines think and feel? |
| 6. | | Philosophical aspect of biology and live science. |
| 7. | | Philosophical questions concerning quantum physics. |
| 8. | | Ever living question of the theory of relativity. Time and space in physics and philosophy. |
| 9. | | Cosmology, ,theories of everything". |
| 10. | | Holism and eastern thinking. |
| 11. | | Questions concerning psychology of C. G. Jung (synchronicity), and some topic psychotherapeutic methods. |
| 12. | | Problems with ,alternative cognition" (healing, parapsychology .) |
| 13. | | Other questions concerning ,alternative cognition", discussions of criteria of scientific knowledge. |
| 14. | | Postmodernism - crisis of rationality and objectivity? |
Exercises outline:
| 1. | | Role of language on the way of thinking. |
| 2. | | Myths, fairytales, religion, philosophical and scientific thinking. |
| 3. | | Discussion on the relation between technology and art. What is metaphysics? |
| 4. | | Information, entropy and physics. |
| 5. | | Can machines think and feel? |
| 6. | | Transdisciplinar aspects of biology and live science. |
| 7. | | Non-locality, teleportation, the problem of identity. |
| 8. | | Time and space in physics and philosophy. |
| 9. | | Problem of reductionism in science and in general thinking. |
| 10. | | Comparison between "Eastern" and "Western" thinking. |
| 11. | | Some topic psychotherapeutic methods. |
| 12. | | Healing, parapsychology and critical reasoning |
| 13. | | ,Alternative cognition", discussions of criteria of scientific knowledge. |
| 14. | | Present-day philosophers and new ways of philosophy. |
Literature:
| 1. | | Barrow, J.D. Theory of Everything, Cambridge, 1993 |
| 2. | | Capra, F. The Tao of Physics, New York: Bantam Books.1984 |
Requirements:
Copletion of Philosophy I or equivalent course on ancient philosophy
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