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B0M16FIL	Filozofie 2
Roles:	P, V	Extent of teaching:	2P+2S
Department:	13116	Language of teaching:	CS
Guarantors:	Zamarovský P.	Completion:	Z,ZK
Lecturers:	Zamarovský P.	Credits:	5
Tutors:	Zamarovský P.	Semester:	Z,L

Anotation:

Study targets:

To introduce students to the ideas of ancient philosophy and especially their relationship to today's science, technology, and social life.

Content:

The course is based on the historical development of Western philosophy. In the introduction, I deal with basic concepts, then mention the most important philosophers and their legacy for today. I try to show the relevance of old philosophical ideas. Philosophy 2 goes more in-depth than the introductory course, discussing the relationship between philosophy, science and technology, reductionism - its meaning and limitations, philosophy of mathematics, the development of atomistic approaches, determinism, methodology of science, etc.

Course outlines:

1 Approaches of scientists to philosophy, St. Hawking, E. Mach 2 Reductionism and its roots 3 Philosophy of mathematics 4 Epistemology and ontology of Heracleitus 5 The problem of negative meanings (vacuum, infinity, unconscious...)

6.		Limits of atomism, determinism, Laplace's demon
7.		The problem of free will,
8.		The role of the subject in the process of knowledge
9.		Paradoxes of self-referential statements
10.		Mathematical Platonism and Aristotelianism
11.		Paranklise, the question of free will
12.		Old and new skepticism
13.		Stoics, catalepsy
14.		Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry, modern cosmology

Exercises outline:

During the exercise, the material covered is expanded and students present their presentations on a chosen (but not necessary) topic. Discussion follows.

Literature:

Zamarovský P., From Philosophy to Science, nakl. ČVUT, Praha 2022 Zamarovský P., Why is it dark at Night?, AutorHouse, London 2013 Other materials will be specified during the class.

Requirements:

interest in philosophy and the wider context of science and technology

Keywords:

antiquity, philosophy, science, technology

Subject is included into these academic programs:

Program	Branch	Role	Recommended semester
MPEEM1_2018	Electrical Drives	P	1,3
MPEEM4_2018	Management of Power Engineering and Electrical Engineering	P	1,3
MPEEM3_2018	Technological Systems	P	1,3
MPEEM2_2018	Electrical Power Engineering	P	1,3
MPBIO1_2018	Bioinformatics	V	–
MPBIO4_2018	Signal processing	V	–
MPBIO3_2018	Image processing	V	–
MPBIO2_2018	Medical Instrumentation	V	–
MPKYR_2021	Common courses	V	1,3
MPOI1_2018	Human-Computer Interaction	V	–
MPOI9_2018	Data Science	V	–
MPOI8_2018	Bioinformatics	V	–
MPOI7_2018	Artificial Intelligence	V	–
MPOI6_2018	Software Engineering	V	–
MPOI5_2018	Computer Vision and Image Processing	V	–
MPOI4_2018	Computer Engineering	V	–
MPOI3_2018	Computer Graphics	V	–
MPOI2_2018	Cyber Security	V	–
MPEK1_2018	Electronics	V	–
MPEK7_2018	Radio Communications and Systems	V	–
MPEK6_2018	Mobile Communications	V	–
MPEK5_2018	Communications Networks and Internet	V	–
MPEK4_2018	Technology of the Internet of Things	V	–
MPEK3_2018	Photonics	V	–
MPEK2_2018	Audiovisual and Signal Processing	V	–
MPEK8_2021	Communication and information processing	V	–

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Proposal and Realization: I. Halaška (K336), J. Novák (K336)