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Lecturer(s)
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Grygar Filip, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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The intention of the course is to introduce PhD students to the philosophical thinking that enables: 1) Methodologically "descend beneath" the assumptions, established methods and desired goals of their field, with which they consciously and unconsciously approach thinking about their chosen dissertation topic and the processing or interpretation of literature and any archival materials. 2) To ask questions that go beyond those arising as pre-understandings within their field of study. 3) To attempt to arrive at a grasp and interpretation of something in their thesis topic that has not yet been fully thematized. This philosophical and hermeneutical way of thinking will be introduced to doctoral students through several interdisciplinary examples from the history of philosophy and science: 1) Philosophy: Plato's Parable of the Line 2) Astronomy: the geocentric and heliocentric systems 3) Myth and classical physics: archetypes, axioms and the law of inertia. 4) Quantum theory: the irrationality of reality in terms of the dualism of light and matter or the inexplicability of continuity and discontinuity of phenomena. 5) Quantum thinking: the complementarity of incompatible concepts, descriptions or experiences in everyday and scientific life. 6) Hermeneutics: the hermeneutic structure of question, being, life, non-object and object (objective) experience of the world or phenomena (phenomena). 7) Methodology of science: Popper, Lakatos, Kuhn and Feyerabend.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming)
- Contact teaching
- 12 hours per semester
- Term paper
- 115 hours per semester
- Preparation for an exam
- 24 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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Philosophical and Methodological assumptions of Writing Professional Texts
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Prerequisites
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Active participation of Ph.D. students in arranged philosophical colloquia.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Oral examination, Home assignment evaluation
Elaboration of a written thesis (10 standard pages) on a narrowly defined topic, which is ideologically and contextually related to the topic of their dissertation.
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Recommended literature
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