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Biomediciny - philosophy - CCOC5939

Title:	Podněty moderní biomedicíny pro filosofii a etiku
Guaranteed by:	Department of Medical Ethics and Humanities 3FM CU (12-UET)
Faculty:	Third Faculty of Medicine
Actual:	from 2016
Semester:	both
Points:	2
E-Credits:	2
Examination process:
Hours per week, examination:	0/30, C [HS]
Extent per academic year:	30 [hours]
Capacity:	winter:unknown / unknown (30) summer:unknown / unknown (30)
Min. number of students:	2
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
Key competences:
State of the course:	not taught
Language:	Czech
Teaching methods:	full-time
Teaching methods:	full-time
Level:
Note:	you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester

Guarantor:	Mgr. et Mgr. Marek Vácha, Ph.D.
Attributes:	Modul IID

Examination dates Schedule

Annotation -

Last update: Mgr. et Mgr. Marek Vácha, Ph.D. (01.04.2009)

An attempt of the cross-section of the contemporary state of knowledge concerning human behaviour. The modern state of our knowledge concerning genetics of behaviour, evolutionary psychology, molecular genetics is confronted with the wide field of philosophy. Genes ("nature"), environment ("nurture") and freedom of man are three possible phenomenons determining human behaviour. The course deals with human evolution and phylogeny as well as human ontogeny and is attempting to raise a question refer to the unity or the difference between "brain" and "mind".

Aim of the course -

Last update: Mgr. et Mgr. Marek Vácha, Ph.D. (31.03.2009)

The aim of this course is an attempt of raising a question "what does it mean to be a human?" Each individual lecture will deal with a human being, but every one from the different point of view. The view of molecular genetics, genetics of behaviour, embryology, evolutionary psychology and philosophy will be discussed. The influence of genes and environment is for science without discussion, the philosophy would add the category of human freedom.

Literature -

Last update: Mgr. et Mgr. Marek Vácha, Ph.D. (31.03.2009)

Alcock, J., (2001) The Triumph of Sociobiology. Oxford: Oxord University Press

Jobling, M.A., Hurles, M.E., Tyler-Smith, C., (2004) Human Evolutionary Genetics. Garland Publisher, New York

Jonas, H., (2001) The Phenomenon of Life. Toward a Philosophical Biology. Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois

Lewontine, R., (2001) The Triple Helix Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press

Lumsden, C.J., Wilson, E.O., (1981) Genes, Mind and Culture:The Coevolutionary Process. Cambridge, MA:Harvard University Press.

Strachan, T., (2004) Human Molecular Genetics. Garland Science, London and New York.

Rose, S., (2005) Lifelines. Life Beyond the Gene. Vintage, London

Richards, J.E., Hawley, R.S., (2005) The Human Genome. A User´s Guide. 2nd ed. Elsevier Academic Press, Burlington, MA, USA

Wilson, E.O., (1978) On Human Nature. Cambridge,MA:Harvard University Press.

Wilson, E.O., (2000) Sociobiology: The New synthesis. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press.

Workman, L., Reader, W., (2004) Evolutionary Psychology, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press

Teaching methods -

Last update: Mgr. et Mgr. Marek Vácha, Ph.D. (31.03.2009)

The lectures with possibility of raising questions and immediate discussion.

Requirements to the exam -

Last update: Mgr. et Mgr. Marek Vácha, Ph.D. (31.03.2009)

The attendance and the final informal oral examination.

Syllabus -

Last update: Mgr. et Mgr. Marek Vácha, Ph.D. (31.03.2009)

1. Human Genome Project, self-understanding of the human being, racism, the position of Homo sapiens sapiens in an evolutionary tree.

2. A human and an animal: difference rather quantitative or qualitative? Ethical concerns: problem of patenting of genes, insurance companies, employment and unemployment for the reasons of genetic composition.

3. Naturalistic fallacy. "Is" and "ought", the difference between "natural" nad "moral"

4. The evolutionary origin of Homo sapiens sapiens.

5. The influence of evolutionary biology nad eviolutionary psychology. The beginning of art and ethics in the course of an evolution of a man.

6. The causes of human behaviour: genes, environment, freedom. The ethics between behaviourism and genetic determinism.

7. The beginning of individual Homo sapiens sapiens. Embryology, status of the embryo.

8. The reproductive cloning, therapeutic cloning, attempts of the definition of human being and human person, ontological personalism and empirical functionalism.

9. The question of the "self". Neurofyziology, theory of identity, dualism between "brain" and "mind" and all the pros and cons.