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15568
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| Year |
2
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| Semester |
S2
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| ECTS Credits |
6
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| Workload |
OT(15H)/TP(45H)
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| Scientific area |
Philosophy
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Entry requirements |
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Learning outcomes |
The program of this Unit aims to identify and problematize the dominant vectors of philosophical contemporaneity, circumscribing a field of action that, despite the mobility of its borders, can legitimately call "its own". In doing so, this Unit promotes expertise in the main problems and authors of Contemporary Philosophy and fosters a simultaneously angular and deep understanding of its fundamental texts, establishing, in the meantime, relevant connections with other areas of knowledge. At the end of this Unit, students should have developed the following skills:
a) To autonomously manage the vast conceptual apparatus used in the space of Contemporary Philosophy;
b) Assess the relevance and validity of the issues raised in the contemporary world, articulating, whenever necessary, the philosophical singularity of this period with the other periods in the History of Philosophy;
c) Establish productive and philosophically relevant dialogues with other areas of knowledge.
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Syllabus |
1. introduction to the problem of the contemporary.
( “What is the contemporary?”, by G. Agamben)
2. The foundational projects behind the two major schools of contemporary philosophy from the 20th century onwards:
a.The program of Analytical Philosophy
( “The elimination of metaphysics”, by A.J. Ayer)
b. The Phenomenology program
( “Philosophy as a science of rigor” by E. Husserl)
3. The question of existence and the ontology of existence
(“Existentialism is a humanism” by J.P. Sartre)
4. The mind-body problem
(“The mind-body problem”, by J. Fodor; “What is it like to be a bat?”, by Th. Nagel)
5. Modernity in question
(“Words and Things”, by M. Foucault , “The Postmodern Condition”, Lyotard; “Margins of Philosophy”, J. Derrida; “A Thousand Plateaus”, by G. Deleuze and F. Guattari; “We have never been modern”, B. Latour)
6. Hyper-industrial modernity and Feminism
(“Symbolic Misery”, vol. 1, by B. Stiegler; “feminist theory”, by bell hooks)
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Main Bibliography |
(Selecção)
Edmund HUSSERL, A Ideia de Fenomenologia – Cinco Lições, Lisboa, Edições 70.
Giorgio AGAMBEN (Ed.). O que é o contemporâneo? e outros ensaios. Chapecó, SC: Argos, 2009
Jean-Paul SARTRE, O existencialismo é um humanismo (ed. Vergílio Ferreira), Quetzal, 2012.
John SEARLE, Mente, Cérebro e Ciência, Lisboa, Edições 70,1984.
Robert SOKOLOWSK, Introduction to Phenomenology (Introdução à Fenomenologia), São Paulo, Edições Loyola, 2004.
Thomas NAGEL, Mortal Questions, CUP, 2012.
Bernard STIEGLER, Miséria Simbólica - A era hiperrindustrial (vol1), Orfeu Negro, 2018
bell hooks, Teoria Feminista. Orfeu Negro, 2020.
Bruno LATOUR, Jamais fomos modernos. Editora 34, 1994.
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Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria |
The classes will combine an expository and systematic component with an analysis and participative discussion of the themes and authors indicated in the program. This scientific-pedagogical model, which demands a strict understanding of students as active and central elements in the teaching-learning process, will be expressed in an assessment based on the following moments:
. Continuous assessment: active participation in the proposed activities, attendance (minimum of 50% of classes), punctuality, relevance and consistency of interventions;
. Essay regarding one of the program topics (70%);
. Individual interview – analysis and critique of relevant program information, strictly in situations to be identified throughout the semester (30%).
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Language |
Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
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