Self and Alterity in Contemporary Philosophy - AFSV00257

• Anglický název: Self and Alterity in Contemporary Philosophy
• Zajišťuje: Ústav filosofie a religionistiky (21-UFAR)
• Fakulta: Filozofická fakulta
• Platnost: od 2019
• Semestr: zimní
• Body: 0
• E-Kredity: 6
• Způsob provedení zkoušky: zimní s.:
• Rozsah, examinace: zimní s.:2/0, Zk [HT]
• Počet míst: neurčen / neurčen (neurčen)
• Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
• 4EU+: ne
• Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
• Stav předmětu: nevyučován
• Jazyk výuky: angličtina
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Další informace: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=4810
• Poznámka: předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán; povolen pro zápis po webu
• Garant: Mgr. Ondřej Švec, Ph.D.
• Třída: Exchange - 08.1 Philosophy

Anotace

Poslední úprava: Mgr. Ondřej Švec, Ph.D. (27.09.2018)

What does it mean for human being to be a self? Is “self” a metaphysical heritage deeply embedded in our Cartesian way of seeing ourselves? Is it a mere social construct? A result of our narratives? An Eurocentric invention with a limited historical relevance? And if a self exists at least as a possibility of our conscious life, what role does it exactly play in our existence? <br>
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In order to better assess the equivocations behind the “self”, we will first investigate the origins of such a concept in Modern philosophy (Descartes) and then address various forms of criticism towards the conception of ego considered as self-enclosed, self-transparent and self-sufficient fundament of our being. These criticisms will be considered mostly from the perspective of phenomenological authors such as Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and Lévinas as well as from the perspective of narrative identity<br>
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Our investigation will mostly focus on the relation between self and other. We will ask to what extant does selfhood involve interpersonal relations, how is it embedded in a social environment. It will be argued that one cannot be a self on one´s own, but only as a part of intersubjective relations of mutual recognition. <br>
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Attention: Monday, October 22, 2018, the class is cancelled, because I present a paper at SPEP conference in the USA.

Literatura

Poslední úprava: Mgr. Ondřej Švec, Ph.D. (05.09.2017)

Davidson, D. (2001), Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

Heidegger, M. (1986) [1927], Sein und Zeit (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag); trans. by J. Stambaugh as Being and Time (Albany, NY: SUNY, 1996).

Hegel, G.W.F. (1977), Phenomenology of Spirit, trans. by A.V. Miller (Oxford: Clarendon Press).

Hume, D. (1970) [1739], A Treatise of Human Nature (Glasgow: Fontana Collins).

Husserl, E. (1950) [1931], Cartesianische Meditationen und Pariser Vorträge, ed. S. Strasser, Husserliana 1 (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff ).

Husserl, E. (1989), Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy: Second Book: Studies in Phenomenology of the Constitution (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers).

Kenny, A. (1988), The Self (Milwaukee, Wis.: Marquette University Press).

Korsgaard, C. M. (2009), Self-Constitution: Agency, Identity, and Integrity (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

Levinas, E. (1979) [1961], Totality and Infinity, trans. A. Lingis (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff).

Merleau-Ponty, M. (2012) [1945], Phenomenology of Perception, trans. D. A. Landes (London: Routledge).

Metzinger, T. (2003), Being No One (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press).

Overgaard, S. (2012), ‘Other People’, in D. Zahavi (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Phenomenology (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 460–79.

Ricoeur, P. (1988) [1985], Time and Narrative III, trans. K. Blamey and D. Pellauer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).

Sartre, J.-P. (1948), ‘Conscience de soi et connaissance de soi’, Bulletin de la Société française de philosophie, 42: 49–91.

Sartre, J.-P. (1957) [1936], The Transcendence of the Ego, trans. F. Williams and R. Kirkpatrick (New York: Noonday Press).

Sartre, J.-P. (2003) [1943], Being and Nothingness: An Essay in Phenomenological Ontology, trans. H. E. Barnes (London: Routledge).

Shoemaker, S. (1996), The First-Person Perspective and Other Essays (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Strawson, G. (2009), Selves: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

Taylor, C. (1989), Sources of the Self (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press)

Thiel, U. (2011), The Early Modern Subject: Self-Consciousness and Personal Identity from Descartes to Hume (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

Tomasello, M. (1999), The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press)

Williams, B. A. O. (1973), Problems of the Self (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)

Zahavi, D. (1996), Husserl und die transzendentale Intersubjektivität: Eine Antwort auf die sprachpragmatische Kritik (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers).

Zahavi, D. (1999), Self-Awareness and Alterity: A Phenomenological Investigation (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press).

Zahavi, F: Grunbaum, T. & Parnas, J. (2004), The Structure And Development Of Self-Consciousness: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Amsterdam: John Benjamins)

Zahavi, D. (2005), Subjectivity and Selfhood: Investigating the First-Person Perspective (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press).

Zahavi, D. (2014), Self and Other: Exploring Subjectivity, Empathy, and Shame (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

Požadavky ke zkoušce

Poslední úprava: Mgr. Ondřej Švec, Ph.D. (11.09.2018)

The credits for the course will be delivered based on two categories of assessment:

 

(1) Engaged Involvement:

 

This is generally a matter of preparation, attendance, attention, and participation in the course.

 

and:

 

(2a) Oral presentation with critical assessment of related philosophical ideas and stances

 

or:

 

(2b) Written Work on the topic related to the issues raised during our course.

 

These papers should be of roughly 6-7 pages (250*7=1750 words) and should be sent to my email address with a proper form of footnotes, endnotes, or references.

 

The papers will be due on Friday, 10 January 2019.