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Lecturer(s)
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Rozen David, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Hejduk Tomáš, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
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Sklenář Václav, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Každé z následujících šesti sekcí budou věnovány dva semináře. (1) Naturalness - General motivation - Naturalness': the semantic job - Nature: constructivism, epistemology and ontology - Following nature? (2) 'No Naturalness, only Nature' - Aristotle: "existing by nature" - Fixed beings - Understanding today's concept of naturalness - Essentialism: John Locke - Humeanism - The experiment - Science: from in-vitro to in-vivo - Reservations - No naturalness, only nature (3) Dispositions - Real potentiality? - Categorical properties - Problems for the dispositional monist - Combined views - The categorical and dispositional revised - Modified neutral monism (4) Dispositions and relational realism - Reductionism and intrinsicality - Relational realism - Reciprocal dispositional partners - The combinatorial puzzle - "Relational problems" - Towards a relational account of dispositions - The nature of things (5) Rethinking naturalness - Logical and de re possibility - HEDFs - Possible-I and possible-N - Containment and possible-I - It is possible-I, but is it possible-N? - Naturalness and dispositions - New eyes on environmental ethics (6) Naturalness in ecology and wilderness stewardship - Naturalness, ecology and wilderness - Botkin and balance in nature - Wilderness stewardship - Ecology, dispositions and naturalness
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book)
- Participation in classes
- 30 hours per semester
- Home preparation for classes
- 90 hours per semester
- Preparation of a presentation (report)
- 30 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Home assignment evaluation, Oral performance analysis, Discussion, Systematic monitoring, Presentation
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Recommended literature
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