Summer semester 2014/2015 List of courses (descriptions are below the list): 1. Aesthetic of Jazz (Prof. Grzegorz Malinowski) 2. Art,, Criticism. Aesthetic Dilemmas of Modernity (Agnieszka Rejniak- Majewska, PhD) 3. Computational heories of Mind (Paweł Grabarczyk, PhD) 4. Contemporary heories of Proper Names and Natural Kind erms (Alicja Markiewicz, MA) 5. Introduction to Classical (Prof. Marek Gensler) 6. Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology (Prof. Marek Nowak) 7. Introduction to Phenomenological Ontology (Prof. Marek Rosiak) 8. Introduction to Political (Michał Zawidzki, PhD) 9. Introduction to Process (Prof. Marek Rosiak) 10. Issues in of Religion (omasz Sieczkowski, PhD) 11. Metaphysics and Ontology (Prof. Janusz Kaczmarek) 12. Philosophical Antropology (Prof. Janusz Kaczmarek) 13. of Language (Prof. Janusz Maciaszek) 14. Polish Analytical (Paweł Grabarczyk, PhD) 15. Rhetoric and Argumentation (Michał Zawidzki, PhD) 16. Speech Act heory (Prof. Marek Nowak) 17. heories of Metaphor (Prof. Janusz Maciaszek) Contemporary heories of Proper Names and Natural Kind erm 1. Aesthetic of Jazz ECS 6 1
A historically sensitive discussion and analysis of the jazz music aesthetics, including jazz origins, jazz standards and its development Active participation Grzegorz Malinowski gregmal@uni.lodz.pl G.C. Ward, K. Burns, Jazz. A history of America s music, Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. M.C. Gridley, Jazz styles (History and analysis), Prentice Hall, 1997. he New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (ed. Barry Kernfeld), Macmillan, (1994), 1996. * L lecture, - tutorial, D discussion class, Lab laboratory, or other 2. Art,, Criticism. Aesthetic Dillemas of Modernity ECS 6 he course offers an overview of main philosophical problems of modern and contemporary aesthetics related with the changing conceptions of art, different approaches to human subjectivity, aesthetic experience, creativity and social communication. he order of readings (selected fragments from classical texts plus more recent critical essays and artists statements) is to emphasize the relations between aesthetic theory and wider processes of cultural and artistic change. Active participation, one paper (essay) on a chosen topic Agnieszka Rejniak-Majewska agnesmarej@wp.pl 2
- Kant, Immanuel, Critique of Judgment, trans. James Creed Meredith, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007 - Schiller, Friedrich, Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man, trans. Reginald Snell, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. - Greenberg, Clement, Can aste be Objective?; Experience of Value, in: idem, Homemade Aesthetics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. - Benjamin, Walter, he Work of Art in the Age of Its echnological Reproducibility, in: idem, he Work of Art in the Age of Its echnological Reproducibility and Other Writings on Media, ed. Michael W. Jennings, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008, - Adorno, heodor, Aesthetic heory, trans. Robert Hullot-Kentor, New York, London: Continnum, 1997. - Bürger, Peter, heory of the Avant-garde, trans. Michael Shaw, Mineapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984. - Kosuth, Joseph, Art After, in: idem, Art after and After. Collected Writings, 1966-1990, Cambridge, Mass.: MI Press 1991 - Jacques Rancière, he Aesthetic Revolution and Its Outcomes, New Left Review nr 14, March 2002 * L lecture, - tutorial, D discussion class, Lab laboratory, or other 3. Computational heories of Mind graduate (master s) 2014/2015 wintewr semester ECS 6 he easiest way to introduce computational theories of mind is to invoke a famous metaphor the mind is the software and the brain is the hardware. From the outset of theories of computation (it was evident in the seminal uring paper) the idea that the mind might be a set of algorithms implemented in the brain seemed very attractive. It looked like we could eat our cake and have it too: the intuition that the mind is somehow immaterial was preserved but we didn't have to adhere to any metaphysical claims. Everything was coached in standard naturalistic terms. Unfortunately the idea has been severely challenged in the following years. Most notably by John R. Searle famous counterexamples (the Chinese room thought experiment) and by the advance of connectivists' models of mind 3
(the neural networks approach). he course gives the students a thorough understandig of classic and current approaches to computational theories of mind. Active participation, marked paper Paweł Grabarczyk pagrab@gmail.com Alan uring, Computing machinery and intelligence im Crane "he Mechanical Mind" Gualtiero Piccinini, "Computations and Computers in the Sciences of Mind and Brain" * L lecture, - tutorial, D discussion class, Lab laboratory, or other 4. Contemporary heories of Proper Names and Natural Kind erms Undergraduate (bachelor s) / graduate (master s) ECS 6 An introduction to the contemporary theories of the proper names and the natural kind terms with particular focus on the semantic externalism being one of the most popular and thoroughly discussed standpoints in the philosophy of language and represented by Saul Kripke and Hilary Putnam. Essay (word limit: 1000-1500) Alicja Markiewicz, alicja.mark89@gmail.com 1. Putnam H. (1975), he meaning of 'meaning.' In Mind, language and reality: Philosophical papers, vol. 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 215 71. 4
2. Kripke S. (1980), Naming and Necessity, Harvard: Harvard University Press. * L lecture, - tutorial, D discussion class, Lab laboratory, or other 5. Introduction to Classical ECS 6 he course presents main lines of development in Ancient ad Medieval philosophy (from Plato to Ockham), showing the specificity of pre-modern thought Active participation, term paper Marek Gensler mgensler@uni.lodz.pl Fragments of texts by Plato, Aristotle, Seneca, Augustine, Anselm of Canterbury, homas Aquinas, William Ockham * L lecture, - tutorial, D discussion class, Lab laboratory, or other 6. Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology ECS 6 5
he JB account of knowledge. A priori and a posteriori knowledge. he analytic-synthetic distinction (with application to mathematics). Epistemic versus traditional deontological justification. Internalism: foundationalism and coherentism. Externalism: reliabilism Active participation Marek Nowak marnowak@filozof.uni.lodz.pl R. Chisholm, he Foundations of Knowing, University of Minnesota Press 1982 R. Chisholm, heory of Knowledge (3rd ed.), Prentice-Hall 1989 Steup M., An introduction to contemporary epistemology, Prentice-Hall 1998 R. Audi, Epistemology. A contemporary introduction to the theory of knowledge (2nd ed.), Routledge 2003 * L lecture, - tutorial, D discussion class, Lab laboratory, or other 7. Introduction to Phenomenological Ontology Undergraduate (bachelor s) / graduate (master s) ECS 6 Basic course in phenomenological ontology: General notion of an object Basic aspects of an object: matter, form, mode of existence Basic notions of existential ontology Basic notions of formal ontology 6
Some applications: 1. Purely intentional object 2. Idea 3. ypes of temporal objects: A. Object persisting in time B. Process C. Event Regular attendance, activity and/or written work Marek Rosiak rosiak@uni.lodz.pl Ingarden R., he Controversy over the existence of the world, transl. H. Michejda Mitscherling J., Roman Ingarden s Ontology and Aesthetics, Univ. of Ottawa Press, 1997 * L lecture, - tutorial, D discussion class, Lab laboratory, or other 8. Introduction to Political ECS 6 he course is devoted to major problems of political philosophy (such as: the nature of justice, source of the law, obligations of a state, the extent of personal freedom etc.) answered from the viewpoint of different philosophers (like, inter alia, Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Smith, Bentham, Marx, Rawls, Nozick) and major political ideologies (such as, inter alia, liberalism, conservatism, socialism, communism). As an important part of the course students, together with the lecturer, will attempt to answer the question of how adequately concrete elements of these philosophies fit in the contemporary political reality. 1 end of course reflective essay 7
Michał Zawidzki michal.zawidzki@gmail.com extbook: J. Wolff, An Introduction Political, Oxford University Press 2006. Anthology of original texts: S. Cahn, Political : he Essential exts, Oxford University Press 2010. * L lecture, - tutorial, D discussion class, Lab laboratory, or other 9. Introduction to Process Undergraduate (bachelor s) / graduate (master s) ECS 6 Elements of A. N. Whitehead s process metaphysics Modern science and philosophy Critique of substantialism Critique of idealism Categorial scheme of process philosophy Creativity vs. prime matter Eternal objects vs. universals Actual occasion vs. substance Revindication of teleology God Regular attendance, activity and/or written work Marek Rosiak rosiak@uni.lodz.pl 8
Whitehead A. N.,.Process and Reality. An Essay in Cosmology, Corrected Edition, he Free Press, N. Y. 1978 Christian W. A., An Interpretation of Whitehead s Metaphysics, Yale Univ. Press, New Haven 1959 * L lecture, - tutorial, D discussion class, Lab laboratory, or other 10. Issues in of Religion ECS 6 he program of the class will cover the following topics: - General idea of philosophy of religion - he question of the existence of deity - Contemporary atheistic ideologies Active participation omasz Sieczkowski tomasz.sieczkowski@gmail.com Chad Meister, Introduction of Religion Nicholas Everitt, he Non-existence of God Richard Dawkins, he God Delusion * L lecture, - tutorial, D discussion class, Lab laboratory, or other 11. Metaphysics and Ontology 9
ECS 6 1) metaphysics, ontology and prote philosophia, 2) categories, 3) objects, state of affairs, events 4) whole and parts 5) analytical metaphysics and formal ontology active participation, term paper Janusz Kaczmarek kaczmarek@filozof.uni.lodz.pl Aristotle, Metaphysics (fragments), Copleston F., A History of (fragments), Kim J., Sosa E., A companion to Metaphysics (different entries), Wittgenstein L., ractatus Logico Philosophicus, Wolniewicz B., Logic and Metaphysics, and other fragments from ontological papers * L lecture, - tutorial, D discussion class, Lab laboratory, or other 12. Philosophical Anthropology ECS 6 1. he ideas of anthropology and human being given by Aristotle, homas, Kant, Scheler, Hartmann and other will be presented and discussed, (and also): 2. Anthropology and ontology 3. Anthropology and ethics 10
active participation, term paper or oral presentation Janusz Kaczmarek kaczmarek@filozof.uni.lodz.pl Eike Hinz, Outline of a Philosophical Anthropology, 2006 Gilson E., History of Christian in the Middle Ages, 1985 Aristotle, homas, Kant, Scheler and others fragments of writtings * L lecture, - tutorial, D discussion class, Lab laboratory, or other 13. of Language ECS 6 Main problems of philosophy of language. heories of meaning. Problem of truth. Pragmatics of natural language. Marked paper and presentation Janusz Maciaszek januszm@uni.lodz.pl Fragments of Plato, Aristotle, J. Locke, J. S. Mill, G. Frege, R. Carnap, and K. Ajdukiewicz. Martinich, A. P. (ed.) 2001 he of Language. New York: Oxford University Press. Fragments of: Austin, J. L. 1962 How to Do hings with Words. Oxford: Clerendon Press. Grice, H. P. 1975 Logic and Conversation. W: P. Cole i J. Morgan 11
(red.) Syntax and Semantics, vol. 3, Academic Press: London. Hale, B., C. Wright (red.) 1997 A Companion to the of Language. Blackwell Publishing. Kripke, S. 1980 Naming and Necessity. Oxford. Blackwell. Lycan, W. G 2000 of Language. A Contemporary Introduction. London and New York: Routledge. Martinich, A. P. (ed.) 2001 he of Language. New York: Oxford University Press. Wittgenstein, L. 1953 Philosophical Investigations. Oxford: Blackwel Publishing * L lecture, - tutorial, D discussion class, Lab laboratory, or other 14. Polish Analytical ECS 6 he course introduces the students to the works of the most prolific polish analytic philosophers Jan Lukasiewicz, Alfred arski, Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, Andrzej Zabludowski and Marian Przelecki. Apart from the works which has been translated into it gives the student the opportunity to discuss the problems and ideas contained in works which are currently available only in Polish. Active participation, marked paper Paweł Grabarczyk pagrab@gmail.com Jadacki, J. J., Paśniczek, J. (eds.), 2006, he Lvov-Warsaw School the New Generation, Rodopi: Amsterdam Lapointe, S., Woleński, J., Mathieu, M., Miśkiewicz, W., 2009, he Golden Age of Polish. Kazimierz wardowski's Philosophical Legacy, Dordrecht: Springer. 12
Jadacki, J. J., 2009, Polish Analytical, Semper: Warszawa. * L lecture, - tutorial, D discussion class, Lab laboratory, or other 15. Rhetoric and Argumentation ECS 6 In everyday life we often find ourselves in a situation in which we discuss certain issues with our interlocutor and even though we feel that (s)he is wrong with her statements, we cannot tell why. Frequently it is the case that the interlocutor is only rhetorically more skillful than us and despite the fact that we are substantially right in our opinions, it suffices for him (her) to win a discussion. During the course we are going to learn how to identify unfair arguments in a discussion. We will also investigate the structure of arguments and distinguish these constituents of an argument, whose violation results in a fallacy (or an unfair trick). In the end, we will get to know different classifications of (both correct and incorrect) arguments and we will name and discuss the most important types of them. A substantial part of the course will be devoted to thought errors we tend to commit in everyday reasoning (which is one of the causes of our vulnerability to unfair arguments exploited in discussions). One of them is known under the name of conjunction fallacy and was primarily described by Daniel Kahneman in his book hinking fast and slow, in which he presented the following experiment: a fictional figure, Linda, was pictured to a group of students as follows: Linda is 31 years old, single, outspoken, and very bright. She majored in philosophy. As a student, she was deeply concerned with issues of discrimination and social justice, and also participated in anti-nuclear demonstrations. Afterwards, the students were asked which is more probable: a) Linda is a bank teller b) Linda is a bank teller and is active in the feminist movement. 13
Even though a) is correct by the sole structure of both answers, and we do not need to refer to our knowledge about the external world to find it out, 90% of respondents picked the second option! It turns out that in everyday reasoning we tend to make a lot of such thinking errors. Some of them are of logical nature we draw conclusions from premises improperly, other consist in, e.g., not paying enough attention to premises one accepts. During the course we will systematically track and classify different kinds of fallacies committed in everyday reasoning, and will learn how to avoid them. 2 courseworks, each one consisting of a set of logical problems to solve Michał Zawidzki zawidzki@filozof.uni.lodz.pl K. Ajdukiewicz, Pragmatic Logic, Reidel 1974. D. Kahneman, hinking Fast and Slow, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012. A. Schopenhauer, he Art of Always Being Right, Gibson Square Books 2009. * L lecture, - tutorial, D discussion class, Lab laboratory, or other 16. Speech Act heory ECS 6 Performative sentences. Locutionary, perlocutionary and illocutionary acts due to Austin. Illocutionary force according to Searle. A taxonomy of illocutionary acts. Illocutionary logic of Vanderveken. Active participation 14
Marek Nowak marnowak@filozof.uni.lodz.pl J. L. Austin, How to Do hings with Words, Clarendon Press 1962 J. R. Searle, Speech acts, Cambridge 1969 J. R. Searle, D. Vanderveken, Foundations of illocutionary logic, Cambridge 1985 D. Vanderveken, Meaning and Speech Acts, Cambridge 1990-91 * L lecture, - tutorial, D discussion class, Lab laboratory, or other 17. heories of Metaphor ECS 6 Metaphor as a problem of philosophy of language Metaphor in philology and hermeneutics he overview of current theories of metaphor Metaphor in cognitive science Presentation or written essay. Janusz Maciaszek januszm@uni.lodz.pl Fragments of folowing texts: 1. Martinich, A. P. 1984 A heory of Metaphor. Journal of Literary Semantics, 13, 35 56. Przedruk w: Martinich he of Language. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001: 447 58 2. Searle, J. R. 1979 Metaphor. W: Expression and Meaning: Studies in the heory of Speech Acts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 76 116. 3. Davidson, D. 1978b What Metaphors Mean. Critical Inquiry 5, 31-47. 15
Przedruk w: Inquiries into ruth and Interpretation. Oxford: Clerendon Press., 2001: 245 64. 4. Evans, V. and M. Green, Cognitive Linguistics. Edinburgh University Press, 2006. Capter 6 Metaphor nad Metonymy, p. 286 327. * L lecture, - tutorial, D discussion class, Lab laboratory, or other 16