CTU FEE Moodle
Filozofie 2
B242 - Summer 24/25
This is a grouped Moodle course. It consists of several separate courses that share learning materials, assignments, tests etc. Below you can see information about the individual courses that make up this Moodle course.
Filozofie 2 - B0M16FIL
Main course
| Credits | 5 |
| Semesters | Both |
| Completion | Assessment + Examination |
| Language of teaching | Czech |
| Extent of teaching | 2P+2S |
Annotation
None
Study targets
To introduce students to the ideas of ancient philosophy and especially their relationship to today's science, technology, and social life.
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
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 outlines
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.
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
Philosophy 2 - BE0M16FIL
| Credits | 5 |
| Semesters | Both |
| Completion | Assessment + Examination |
| Language of teaching | English |
| Extent of teaching | 2P+2S |
Annotation
None
Study targets
To introduce students to the ideas of ancient philosophy and especially their relationship to today's science, technology, and social life.
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
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 outlines
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.
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