What is a Paradox? - AFSV00418
Anglický název: What is a Paradox?
Zajišťuje: Ústav filosofie a religionistiky (21-UFAR)
Fakulta: Filozofická fakulta
Platnost: od 2024
Semestr: letní
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E-Kredity: 5
Způsob provedení zkoušky: letní s.:
Rozsah, examinace: letní s.:2/0, Zk [HT]
Počet míst: neurčen / neurčen (neurčen)
Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
4EU+: ne
Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
Kompetence:  
Stav předmětu: nevyučován
Jazyk výuky: angličtina
Způsob výuky: prezenční
Způsob výuky: prezenční
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Garant: Cesare Cherchi
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Cíl předmětu

The course’s aim is to explain and define the different kind of paradoxes by their structure and features, while also describing the logical and philosophical accounts, and solutions that arose in the last centuries. By the end of the course the students should have new means to face logical problems that arise in different philosophical topics.

Poslední úprava: Cherchi Cesare (29.01.2024)
Deskriptory

What is a paradox? We often say that something is "paradoxical", but we rarely try to define the concept. The reality is that a paradox is not a well defined entity even in philosophy: we call a paradox a correct argument that gives us a surprising conclusion, a fallacious one that leads us to impossible, or sometimes even to surprisingly true, results, and finally – and most prominently – we call paradox an apparently correct line of reasoning that leads to a contradiction.

Poslední úprava: Cherchi Cesare (29.01.2024)
Literatura - angličtina

The course will consist in various pieces of literature supplied by the teacher every week. Anyway the main text followed during the semester will be:

Falletta, N., (1983) “The Paradoxicon”, Doubleday, New York.
Field, H., (2008) “Saving Truth from Paradoxes”, Oxford University Press, New York
Łukowski, P., (2011) “Paradoxes”, Springer, Dordrecht.
Sainsbury, R.M., (2009) “Paradoxes”, Cambridge University Press, New York.

Poslední úprava: Cherchi Cesare (02.02.2024)
Metody výuky

The course will consist in twelve seminars of ninety minutes each in which we will deal with the different topics according to the schedule by reading and discussing the material. The material will consist of relevant passages and articles taken from the relevant bibliography, and it will be provided by the teacher a week in advance.

Poslední úprava: Cherchi Cesare (29.01.2024)
Požadavky ke zkoušce - angličtina

Active in-class participation and a short paper – between 2000 and 3000 words – are required to successfully complete the course. The topic of the paper, based on the material discussed in class, has to be previously agreed upon with the teacher.

Poslední úprava: Cherchi Cesare (02.02.2024)