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Problemáticas em Filosofia

Objectives

a) Acquire a thorough knowledge of the core issues in the various philosophical inquiry subject areas;
b) Acquire the ability to make an in-depth analysis of related core problems with their mutual interactions and bridge the various philosophical inquiry subject areas;
c) Acquire an in-depth knowledge of the core issues in the various schools of history of philosophy and current philosophical research;
d) Acquire the ability to relate and thoroughly compare the various currents of history of philosophy and current philosophical research;
e) Acquire a thorough knowledge of core problems in an interdisciplinary dialogue between philosophical inquiry and other areas of research;
f) Acquire the ability to identify, formalize and critically explore the various types of problem arising in independent research initiatives meeting the highest standards of accuracy;

General characterization

Code

73203101

Credits

10.0

Responsible teacher

António José Duque da Silva Marques

Hours

Weekly - 2

Total - 280

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

None.

Bibliography

Frege, G. (2008): Funktion, Begriff, Bedeutung, Fünf logische Studien, Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht.

Heidegger, M. (1986): Sein und Zeit, Tübingen, Max Niemeyer Verlag.

Wittgenstein, L. (1984): “Tractatus lógico-philosophicus in Werkausgabe, Band1, Frankfurt a. M., Suhrkamp Verlag, pp. 7-86.

Philosophische Untersuchungen” in Werkausgabe, Band1, Frankfurt a. Main, Suhrkamp Verlag, pp. 225-580.

For every session there are obligatory readings.

Teaching method

The classes are seminar-oriented. The syllabus resorts two main activities. In the first hour we will read, expose and explain the fundamental key concepts and the theoretical frameworks of the texts at stake. In the second hour we will be interpreting and analysing the texts with the students in order to promote a debate about alternative views, possible objections, argumentation and expression.
The evaluation is individual, through one written paper (100%) discussed and supervised in tutorial monitoring.

Evaluation method

The evaluation is individual, through one written paper , discussed and supervised in tutorial monitoring.(100%)

Subject matter

Problems, programs, solutions.
1) Perspectives on meaning and understanding in analytic philosophy and hermeneutics (Frege, Wittgenstein, Heidegger).
2) Wittgenstein s program is in the Tractatus a systematic application of Frege s program. Only the referent has truth value, is formally verifiable and admits quantification. The proposition well-formed\" and the universal philosophical claim and lies between tautology and contradiction.
2) The pragmatical bent in LW’s Ph.U.. LW works out the principles of understanding language as ways of action in multiple areas and regions of meaning, so-called language games. Life is broken up into diverse fields of action. Language is being in action.
3) Heidegger. Radicalization of language. The ante-predicative. The continued pressure to express and understand meaning. The deep, unfathomable structures of language. Everyday language as being dependent upon the proto-anonymous structure of meaning.