Courses for 2012/2013
| Course | Instructor | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Academic Writing Master's Mandatory 2 2012/2013 Fall 17 Sep 2012 - 7 Dec 2012 ... | 2 | |
| Academic Writing Master's Mandatory 2 ... | 2 | |
| Advanced Topics in Logic This course is divided into two parts: (i) truth-valuational approach to logic; (ii) the logic of plurals. Advanced Topics in Logic ... | 2 | |
| Aesthetics The course covers a wide range of issues and thinkers in philosophy of art and aesthetics. We will begin with a selection of historical texts on the topic from Plato and Aristotle to Hume, Kant and Hegel. We ... | 4 | |
| Ancient Philosophy The course gives an overview of ancient philosophy from the Presocratics to the Hellenistic Age. The course does not require or build on any specific previous knowledge of ancient philosophy. We will read ... | ||
| Autonomy Autonomy is one of the most used concepts in moral and political theory. There is, however, no consensus about what it is, and why it is valuable. This course aims to revise different views on autonomy, its ... | 2 | |
| Continental Philosophy After a brief overview of Kant, Hegel and Marx, the course will cover five thinkers in continental philosophy: Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and Foucault. Depending on students’ interests, we might ... | 2 | |
| Departmental Colloquium Mandatory 1 2012/2013 ... | 1 | |
| Departmental Colloquium Mandatory 1 2012/2013 ... | 1 | |
| Derrida The course offers an introduction to the thought of the French philosopher, Jacques Derrida. Since Derrida consistently emphasizes that deconstruction is always relies on, and can be conceived as a practice ... | 2 | |
| Descartes: The Making of a Philosophical Revolution The main objective of the course is to deepen the students’ acquaintance with some central ideas of Descartes’ philosophy, ideas that are often not emphasized in expositions of his thought. We shall discuss ... | 4 | |
| Dispositions and Powers In many areas of philosophy it is common to distinguish ‘categorical’ terms and properties from ‘dispositional’ ones. Often used examples for the latter are physical properties like fragility, solubility, ... | 4 | |
| Doctoral Seminar Doctoral Mandatory 2 ... | 2 | |
| Doctoral Seminar Doctoral Mandatory 2 ... | 2 | |
| Embodied Cognition Doctoral Elective 2 2012/2013 Winter Department of Cognitive Science ... | 2 | |
| Epistemology 2012/13 The course offers an introduction into some classic problems of epistemology which form the subject of lively discussion also in contemporary philosophy. We shall start with the question of necessary and ... | 2 | |
| Ethics 2012/13 The main objectives will be for students to learn about the differences between the main approaches to normative ethical theory and metaethics, and to improve their skills of philosophical reasoning and ... | 2 | |
| Forms in Hellenistic Philosophy This is the continuation of two previous courses, they explored the status of form in Presocratic philosophy and Plato, and then in Aristotle. Nevertheless, it does not presuppose that participants took also ... | 2 | |
| Greek Reading Seminar Doctoral Elective 2 ... | 2 | |
| Greek Reading Seminar 2012/13 The course is an in-depth reading of the Greek text of Aristotle’s Physics Book 1. We will discuss Aristotle’s position on the principles and scope of natural philosophy, as well as his critical discussion ... | 2 | |
| Introduction to Cognitive Science Course description: This course will give a broad overview of the fundamental assumptions driving Cognitive Science, the interdisciplinary study of the mind. We will start with an overview of the disciplines involved. Then we will proceed to ... | 2 | |
| Introduction to Political Philosophy: Justice and Equality The study of politics includes not only how the political world operates, but also how it ought to operate. The course focuses on John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice and some of the most important objections it has been presented with in the ... | 4 | |
| Issues in the study of inference, reasoning and rationality Doctoral Elective 2 2012/2013 Winter Department of Cognitive Science ... | 2 | |
| Knowledge, Understanding and Wisdom Master's Elective 4 ... | 4 | |
| Late Antique & Byzantine Text Seminars The Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Text Seminar, a standing institution of the Medieval Studies/The Eastern Mediterranean from Constantine the Great to Süleyman the Magnificent curriculum, invites doctoral and Master's students as ... | 2 | |
| Leibniz and Locke Doctoral Elective 4 ... | 4 | |
| Leibniz and Locke Doctoral Elective 4 ... | 4 | |
| Logic This course will focus primarily on the formal properties of statements and sets of statements. It will be shown how to determine which statements are logical truths or tautologies, i.e., true by virtue of ... | 2 | |
| MA Thesis Seminar Master's Mandatory 2012/2013 ... | ||
| Metaphysics The course offers a general introduction into some of the major problems of contemporary analytic metaphysics. Metaphysics is a study of the most general categories in order to answer the questions what is ... | 2 |