Controversies in Contemporary Philosophy - 1st semester
Code
722031035
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Filosofia
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
António de Castro Caeiro
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To get a profound knowledge of significant controversies in the development of Contemporary Philosophy;
b) To get a profound knowledge of fundamental texts concerning the Contemporary Philosophy, as well as of the hermeneutical tradition, of the more recent interpretations and bibliography;
c) To acquire a critical ability, namely to deal with such controversies from a philosophical point of view;
d) To acquire an analytical ability to deal with the heuristic potentialities of controversy phenomena.
e) To practice the skills concerning textual production according to scientific standards.
Prerequisites
Not applicable.
Subject matter
Perhaps the opposition analytical/continental is geographically localized and dated. Nevertheless, we will try to start from the interpretative hypothesis, according to which this opposition allows us to follow up some controversial themes, even within these different traditions. It is not only analytic philosophy that opposes hermeneutics or phenomenology. Within each of these traditions there are divergent and irreconcilable points. But the issues, these, seem to worry. Topics: Analytical vs. synthetic vs. conceptual vs. intuitive / sense without reference vs. reference with sense / subjective vs. aim / mind vs. body / practice vs. theory vs. affectivity / world without point of view vs. point of view without world / solipsism vs. intersubjectivity / languages / self vs. if of another / self-biography vs. anhistorical / temporalities / authenticity vs. inauthenticity.
Bibliography
FREGE (1892): Über Sinn und Bedeutung, Zeitschfrift für Philosophie und philsophische Kritik, 100, 25-59.
WITTGENSTEIN, L., (2003): Philosophische Untersuchungen, Frankfurt, a. Main, Suhrkamp (1945).
ANSCOMBE, G.E.M., (2000) Intention, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England, Harvard University Press.
KRIPKE, S., (2009): Naming and Necessity, Blackwell, Malden.
DAVIDSON, D., (2005): Truth, Language and History, Clarendon Press, Oxford.
HUSSERL, E., (1901): Logische Untersuchungen, Max Niemeyer Verlag, Halle.
Teaching method
Lectures; analysis and discussion of texts.
Evaluation method
The student can choose among the following possibilities: a) one or two oral reports, with prior information concerning the topic [weighting factor: 20%, each] + a written test; or, b) a paper [weighting factor: 40%] + a written test; or, c) only a written test.