Philosophy 2

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Department of Economics, Management and Humanities

Synopsis:

Requirements:

interest in philosophy and the wider context of science and technology

Syllabus of lectures:

1 Approaches of scientists to philosophy, St. Hawking, E. Mach

2 Reductionism and its roots

3 Philosophy of mathematics

4 Epistemology and ontology of Heracleitus

5 The problem of negative meanings (vacuum, infinity, unconscious...)

6. Limits of atomism, determinism, Laplace's demon

7. The problem of free will,

8. The role of the subject in the process of knowledge

9. Paradoxes of self-referential statements

10. Mathematical Platonism and Aristotelianism

11. Paranklise, the question of free will

12. Old and new skepticism

13. Stoics, catalepsy

14. Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry, modern cosmology

Syllabus of tutorials:

During the exercise, the material covered is expanded and students present their presentations on a chosen (but not necessary) topic. Discussion follows.

Study Objective:

To introduce students to the ideas of ancient philosophy and especially their relationship to today's science, technology, and social life.

Study materials:

Zamarovský P., From Philosophy to Science, nakl. ČVUT, Praha 2022

Zamarovský P., Why is it dark at Night?, AutorHouse, London 2013

Other materials will be specified during the class.

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Further information:

https://moodle.fel.cvut.cz/divize/13116/Katedra_ekonomiky__manazerstvi_a_humanitnich_ved

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Electrical Engineering, Power Engineering and Management - Electrical Power Engineering (compulsory course in the program)
• Electrical Engineering, Power Engineering and Management - Technological Systems (compulsory course in the program)
• Electrical Engineering, Power Engineering and Management - Management of Power Eng. and Electr. (compulsory course in the program)
• Electrical Engineering, Power Engineering and Management - Electrical Drives (compulsory course in the program)