Philosophy 2

The course is a substitute for:

Philosophy 2 (XE16FI2)

Lecturer:

Tutor:

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Department of Economics, Management and Humanities

Synopsis:

The course is focused on philosophy of science and technology. It starts by the brief overview of ideas of old philosophy. The main themes are: conections between physics and metaphysics, theories of space and time, modern physics and its crisis, contemporary physics and its philosophical interpretations, postmodernism and „alternative science“, etc.

Requirements:

Syllabus of lectures:

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. The explanation of basic concepts and problems, the role of language

2. Archaic philosophy and protoscience

3. The Physics of Aristoteles

4. Physics and metaphysics

5. The late antique philosophers, the medieval patristics and scholastic

6. The ideas od oriental philosophy

7. Descartes and the theory of space and time

8. Newton and modern physics, mechanistic physics and Laplace demon

9. The evolution of modern physics and it reflection in philosophy

10. The crisis of physics: quantum mechanics and its interpretation

11. Philosophical impacts of the theory of relativity

12. Time and space in physics and philosophy

13. Cosmology and cosmogony, „the theory of everything“?

14. The crisis of objectivity and racionality?

Study Objective:

Study materials:

[1] Barrow, J. D.: Teories of everything. Oxford University Press, 1991

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Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans: