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- B0M16FIL

Main course
Credits 5
Semesters Both
Completion Assessment + Examination
Language of teaching Czech
Extent of teaching 2P+2S
Annotation
No data.
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
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.
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
No data.
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
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.
Requirements
interest in philosophy and the wider context of science and technology