Course: Academic reading of English texts II

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Course title Academic reading of English texts II
Course code KFR/BAJ2
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 3
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Rozen David, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Hejduk Tomáš, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Sklenář Václav, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
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

Learning activities and teaching methods
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
Learning outcomes
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Home assignment evaluation, Oral performance analysis, Discussion, Systematic monitoring, Presentation

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