Introduction to Philosophy
Этот курс создан преподавателями the University of Edinburgh, UK. Я веду обучение на английском языке по книге “Philosophy for Everyone”, которая написана преподавателями этого вуза (M. Chrisman, D. Pritchard, J. S. Lavelle, M. Massimi, A. Richmond, D. Ward).
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Я адаптировал данный курс для отечественной аудитории, то есть доработал его таким образом, чтобы во время обучения философии была возможность «подтянуть» знания по английскому языку и полноценно практиковаться во всех четырёх навыках, связанных с английским языком – writing, speaking, reading, listening.
У меня четырёхлетний опыт преподавания академических предметов на английском языке. В 2017 г. я успешно прошёл IELTS Academic English exam. Мой уровень владения английским языком - Upper intermediate (B2).
COURSE TOPICS
1. What is philosophy?
Philosophy as an activity. Philosophy and other subjects. Philosophy: difficult, important and everywhere.
2. How do we do philosophy?
Philosophical argument. Premises. Valid and sound reasoning in philosophy. Is there a ‘right way’ of thinking about things?
3. What is knowledge?
Epistemology. Propositional knowledge versus ability knowledge
4. Knowledge, truth and belief
Knowledge versus mere true belief. The classical account of knowledge. The Gettier problem. Responding to the Gettier problem. Radical scepticism. Sceptical hypothesis
5. What is it to have a mind?
What we want from an account of the mind. Causation. Mental states. ‘Aboutness’.
6. Cartesian dualism.
Ideas of Descartes. Leibniz’s law. A challenge to the argument from doubt. A challenge to Cartesian dualism.
7. Philosophy of mind
The identity theory. Physicalism. Functionalism. Multiple realizability. The imitation game. Searle’s Chinese room. The extended mind
8. Status of morality
Moral judgments. Empirical judgments. Ethics
9. Morality: objective, relative or emotive?
Objectivism. Relativism. Emotivism
10. Objections to theories of morality
Metaethics. Objections to objectivism, relativism, and emotivism
11. Should you believe what you hear?
Testimony. Hume on miracles and testimony. Conceptual truth. Empirical truth. Reid’s response to Hume. Principle of credulity. Principle of veracity.
12. Intellectual autonomy
Hume versus Reid. Kant versus Reid. The contemporary epistemological debate about testimony. Reductionism. Credulism
13. Are scientific theories true?
Philosophy of science. Scientific realism and scientific antirealism. Constructive empiricism. Scientific realism and the no-miracles argument. Bas van Fraassen’s constructive empiricism. Instrumentalism
14. Time
Personal time and external time. Forward time travel and backward time travel. Grandfather paradoxes. Replacement change and counterfactual change.
15. Causal loops and metaphysics
Causal sequence. Finite linear chains. Infinite linear chains. Finite non-linear chains
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