Research Seminar in Phenomenology - AFS500198

• Title: Research Seminar in Phenomenology
• Guaranteed by: Institute of Philosophy and Religious Studies (21-UFAR)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2019
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (25)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Additional information: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=6507
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: doc. Mgr. Jakub Čapek, Ph.D.; Mgr. Ondřej Švec, Ph.D.; Daniele De Santis, Dott. Ric.

Aim of the course

Last update: doc. Mgr. Jakub Čapek, Ph.D. (27.09.2018)

The subject matter of the Research Seminar in Phenomenology will be defined by the questions and research topics developed by department members whose overall orientation is phenomenological (Ondřej Švec, Daniele De Santis, Jakub Čapek). The seminar will be organized around text manuscripts (articles, conference papers, book chapters). It is an occasion to share pieces of our own work-in-progress with our colleagues and students and to expose it to their criticism.

              We will work in two weeks’ rhythm: presentations of manuscripts will be either followed or preceded by one reading session in which the relevant primary sources will be discussed. To each manuscript session, one student commentator will be assigned to prepare a set of critical remarks and questions which will structure the debate of the manuscript. The texts (both manuscripts, and primary sources) will be available in English in the moodle system: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=6507

Course completion requirements

Last update: doc. Mgr. Jakub Čapek, Ph.D. (25.09.2018)

Credit requirements

To get a course-credit (“zápočet”) two conditions have to be met: (1.) class participation (attendance, regular reading of submitted material) and (2.) commentary on one of the manuscripts.

The seminar is intended for advanced philosophy students (MA and Ph.D. level). This is not a course for incoming Erasmus students (with the exception of advanced MA and Ph.D. students of philosophy).

Syllabus

Last update: doc. Mgr. Jakub Čapek, Ph.D. (25.09.2018)

Program

During the first weeks of the seminar, following manuscripts are to be discussed:

·       “Intersubjectivity and Self-awareness from Husserl to Patočka” (manuscript by Jakub Čapek)

·       “Things themselves as Pragmata” (manuscript by Ondřej Švec)

·       “Husserl and Socrates” (manuscript by Daniele De Santis)

Apart from the regular manuscript presentations and the respective readings sessions, our seminar will also include a special workshop dedicated to the American philosopher David Carr. On November 26, we organize a workshop composed of short papers on selected books by D. Carr and responses by David Carr himself.