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Terminated in academic year 2021/2022

Philosophy

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 711-0103/30
Abbreviation FIL
Course title Philosophy
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Social Sciences
Course coordinator prof. Dr. Mgr. Tomáš Hauer

Subject syllabus


1. Introduction to the philosophy of the 20th century
2. Inspirational sources of French philosophy of existence
3. J. P. Sartre - existence and freedom
4. G. Marcel and A. Camus
5. Phenomenology of E. Husserl
6. Fundamental ontologies of M. Heidegger
7. Ch. Peirce and the origin of pragmatism
8. W. James, what is pragmatism
9. J. Dewey and the social philosophy of pragmatism
10. Origin of analytical philosophy and turn to language
11. Logical atomism
12. Logical positivism
13. L. Wittgenstein, the relationship between language and the world in the Treatise
14. Origin of post-analatic philosophy

Literature

Popkin, R.: Philosophy made simple. Oxford: Made Simple 1991.
Feber, J., Philosophycal anthropology. Ostrava 2003

Advised literature

Russell, B.: History of Western philosophy. London: Routledge 1996.