Courses

CourseInstructorCredits
Academic Writing
Master's Mandatory 2 ...
2
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
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
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
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
MA Thesis Seminar
Master's Mandatory 2012/2013 ...
Mindreading and Joint Action: Philosophical Tools
This course will introduce a variety of new and established philosophical ideas that might usefully inform experimental research on mindreading or on joint action (or both) but have so far been neglected or ...
2
Normativity
The course will investigate the questions: What gives us reasons or requirements to do things, and what kinds of reasons do we have? It will cover some of the contemporary metaethics and practical reasoning ...
4
Philosophy and mathematical Structures - Ancient and Contemporary Approaches
The course concerns ancient and contemporary approaches to mathematical knowledge and to intuitive insight, from two related perspectives. One will be an assessment of contemporary Aristotelianism in the ...
2
Philosophy of Language
We shall study several central topics in contemporary philosophy of language. Each of these topics is central not only in focusing much discussion, but also in influencing the discussion of other ...
2
Philosophy of Religion
PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION: COURSE PLAN The course is concerned with certain fundamental issues in the philosophy of religion. We will look both at the classical source texts for these problems, but also at ...
4
Philosophy of Time
The goal of the course to gain a clear yet critical understanding of certain philoophical issues concerning the experience of time. A further goal is to none reading, thinking and wrting skills. ...
4
Possible Worlds
Possible worlds entered the contemporary philosophical discussion by way of Kripke's work on the semantics for modal logic. Lewis and Stalnaker extended formal possible worlds semantics to the ...
2
Rationalism and Empiricism
This course is a survey of 17th and 18th-century philosophy meant to fulfill a core requirement in the 2-year MA program. However, those who would like to attain a broad knowledge of this area of ...
2
The shared intentionality model of human social cognition
Doctoral Elective 2 2012/2013 Winter Department of Cognitive Science ...
  • Pierre Jacob
2
Wittgenstein
The course will consist of a close reading of parts of the Philosophical Investigations, primarily sections focusing on psychological concepts. I intend to start with section 571 and read on, but we shall ...
2