Seminar in History and the Theory of Paradigms
Code
73219102
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Filosofia
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
João Luís Lisboa
Weekly hours
2
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To understand the ideas as creation, appropriation and transformation of men.
b) To establish the relationship between ideas, representations and doctrines.
c) To question models, understood historically, of understanding reality.
d) To discuss the concepts that underpin the paradigms.
Prerequisites
n/a
Subject matter
With the premise that the issues to be discussed must be related to the research that doctoral students develop, the following topics are set:
a) Concepts, ideas and time: the historical construction of paradigms;
b) Science, knowledge and society;
c) Doctrine and controversy.
d) translation, interpretation, appropriation and vehicles of ideas.
e) ideas and their material expression.
Bibliography
BERNARDO, L. M. (2003): Linguagem e discurso. Uma hipótese hermenêutica sobre a Filosofia de Eric Weil, Lisboa, IN-CM.
BEVIR, M. (1999): The logic of the History of Ideas, Cambridge Univ. Press.
COOK J.W. & GLICKMANN L.B. & O´MALLEY (ed.) (2008): The cultural turn in U.S. History, Chicago/London, Univ. of Chicago Press.
KELLEY, D.R. (2002): The descent of Ideas. The history of intellectual history, Aldershot, Ashgate P.L.
LEVI-MONTALCINI, R. (2009): Cronologia di una scoperta, Milano, Baldini Castoldi Balai.
McMahon D.M & Moyn S. (ed.) (2014): Retinking modern European Intellectual History, Oxford Univ. Press.
PEREIRA, J. E. (2004): Percursos de História das Ideias, Lisboa, INCM.
SEWELL JR., W. H. (2005): Logics of History. Social theory and social transformation, , Chicago/London, The Univ. of Chicago Press.
SHAPIN, S. (1994): A social history of truth. Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England, Chicago/London, The Univ. of Chicago Press.
Teaching method
Seminar and tutorial guidance. Reading, interpretation and commentary of texts. Analysis and discussion of theses and problems. Presentation and discussion of research projects.
Evaluation method
Participation in the activities of the seminar (50%). Presentation, discussion and debate of projects. (50%)