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Contemporary Philosophy II

Code 5952
Year 3
Semester S2
ECTS Credits 6
Workload OT(15H)/TP(45H)
Scientific area Philosophy
Mode of delivery Face-to-face.
Work placements Not applicable.
Learning outcomes The programme undertakes the purpose of characterize the main contemporary vectors, restraining a field of action that, over the mobility of its borders, it can call its own. By doing it, it promotes knowledge of its main authors while it sponsors the comprehension of fundamental texts. At the end of this curricular unit, students must be able to: identify Husserlian’s phenomenology as redefining strength of xx century’s philosophy; know the main developing steps of a phenomenology defined between an empirical psychology and a genuinely transcendental philosophy; understand the theoretical elements in the work of Sartre that points at a “phenomenology of the look”; interpret, grounded on Husserlian’s phenomenology, the contemporary debate regarding a mind/body problem that allows its thought grounded on the key theoretical instrument of “relation”.
Syllabus a) What’s Contemporary Philosophy? The mark of contemporaneity in its dialogical relation with the indicator for actuality. What is its proper space and what are the themes that define its identity? Leading vectors of contemporary’s paradigm b) The sense of task of phenomenology as a critique of knowledge: the theme regarding transcendence as problem for phenomenology c) Elements for a “phenomenology of the look”: the other as a disintegration element of “my” universe d) The mind/body problem: the intrinsically mental elements. Consciousness as the major challenge to the consolidated hegemony of reductive monism. The need for a new conceptual framework to rethink the problem: the concept of relation. Mind/body problem seen from Husserlian’s transcendental phenomenology.
Main Bibliography Main bibliography:
Edmund HUSSERL, A Ideia de Fenomenologia – Cinco Lições, Lisboa, Edições 70. Robert SOKOLOWSK, Introduction to Phenomenology: “Introdução à Fenomenologia”, São Paulo, Edições Loyola, 2004. Natalie DEPRAZ, Husserl: Compreender Husserl, Editora Vozes, 2007. Jean-Paul SARTE, L'Être et Le Néant: O Ser e O Nada - Ensaio de Ontologia Fenomenológica,Editora Vozes, 2004. John SEARLE, Mente, Cérebro e Ciência, Lisboa, Edições 70,1984. John SEARLE, “How to Study Consciousness Scientifically”, in Toward a Science of Consciousness II – The Second Tucson Discussion and Debates, Cambridge,Massachusetts, MIT Press, 1998. Paul T SAGAL, Mind, Man & Machine: Mente, Homem e Máquina, Lisboa, Gradiva, 1996. Urbano SIDONCHA, Do Empírico ao Transcendental: A Consciência e o Problema Mente/Corpo entre o Materialismo Reducionista e a Fenomenologia de Husserl, FCG/FCT, 2011.
Language Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.

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Urbano Mestre Sidoncha

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Last updated on: 2012-05-13

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