Seminário de Investigação em Filosofia (not translated) - 1st semester
Code
73203110
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Filosofia
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Nuno Carlos Venturinha
Weekly hours
2
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) Integrate the doctoral student in a research atmosphere specific to the scientific area of the course.
b) Develop tasks that aim at the grasping of the status quaestionis of the problems related to the students research.
c) Offer the possibility of completing and applying knowledge of a methodological kind.
d) Offer the possibility of practical contact with tools more immediately related to research as is the case of databases or specialized libraries.
Prerequisites
n/a
Subject matter
Readings of Wittgensteins Blue Book
The seminar concentrates on Wittgensteins so-called Blue Book, dictated in 1933-34, with the aim of investigating the place of this work in the development of the Philosophical Investigations. Recent studies (Smith 2013; Venturinha 2013) came to show that both the Blue Book and the Brown Book, dictated in the following academic year, were conceived by Wittgenstein for publication. It was also shown that Wittgenstein went back to the Blue Book in 1941, when he was preparing the Investigations (Venturinha 2012), and for that reason it is important to determine what was then incorporated in that work. Themes such as those of solipsism and private language deserve special attention in the seminar. Finally, it is also important to understand to what extent the Blue Book finds in the Yellow Book, dictated at the same time, a complement in regard to these topics.
Bibliography
Smith, J. (2013). Wittgensteins Blue Book: Reading between the Lines. In N. Venturinha (Ed.), The Textual Genesis of Wittgensteins Philosophical Investigations (pp. 37-51). New York: Routledge.
Venturinha, N. (2012). Sraffas Notes on Wittgensteins Blue Book. Nordic Wittgenstein Review, 1, 181-191.
Venturinha, N. (2013). Introduction: A Composite Work of Art. In N. Venturinha (Ed.), The Textual Genesis of Wittgensteins Philosophical Investigations (pp. 1-16). New York: Routledge.
Wittgenstein, L. (1969). Preliminary Studies for the Philosophical Investigations: Generally known as The Blue and Brown Books (2nd ed.). Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
Wittgenstein, L. (2009). Philosophische Untersuchungen / Philosophical Investigations (4th ed.). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
Teaching method
The method adopted for the class combines readings and commentaries of texts in seminar along with discussion of student papers.
Evaluation method
Each student is required to write a paper (60%) to be presented and discussed in class (40%).