Advanced Themes in Communication Sciences
Code
73201101
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências da Comunicação
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
António Marques
Weekly hours
2
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
Students must build a multidisciplinar perspective of his specific research themes. They must improve their research methodologies and increase clearly their argumentation skills in order to ground their own research main lines. They must improve gradually dialectical argumentation skills and capacities against a background of opponent positions in the same research field.
Prerequisites
None
Subject matter
1. Evolution and Communication: natural and artificial languages 2. Problems of the public space: ethical and political dimensions 3. Communications and technologies: new expressions and mutations 4. Aesthetic and political dimensions of communication 5. Collective intentionality and cooperation principles 6. Principles of communicative action: the pragmatic view 7. Public space 8. Cultural relativism and globalisation: ethical and political dimensions.
Bibliography
- John R. Searle: The Construction of Social Reality, New York: The Penguin Books, 1995/ Consciousness and Reality, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003)
- H. P. Grice: Logic and Conversation in The Philosophy of Language, ed. A.P Martinich, 3ª ed., Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996, pp. 156- 167)
- L. Wittgenstein: Investigações Filosóficas, Lisboa: Fundação Gulbenkian, 1995)
- L. Wittgenstein: Culture and Value, trad. inglesa do original Vermischte Bemerkungen, Chicago: The Chicago UP, 1980/ Remarks on Frazers Golden Bough in L. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951, ed. J. Klagge and A. Nordmann, Indianopolis& Cambridge: Hackett, 1993, pp. 118-154
- Amartya Sen, The Idea of Justice, Allen Labe, Penguin Books
Teaching method
The seminar classes will consist in a theoretical approach by the teacher and the presentation of at least a working paper by the student. Selected themes will always include a direct relation with the program issues and are based on relevant texts of fundamental authors, which will be previously distributed among all the participants.
Evaluation method
Evaluation include the level and quality of participation and the quality of the presented working papers.