Universität Wien

180173 SE Rethinking Naturalism (2015W)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 18 - Philosophie
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

An/Abmeldung

Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").

Details

max. 30 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Montag 05.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Montag 12.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Montag 19.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Montag 09.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Montag 16.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Montag 23.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Montag 30.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Montag 07.12. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Montag 14.12. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Montag 11.01. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Montag 18.01. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Montag 25.01. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

This course focuses upon a specific text, Joseph Rouse’s forthcoming book Articulating the World: Conceptual Understanding and the Scientific Image (University of Chicago Press). This challenging, wide-ranging, and important book seeks to show how our ability to understand the world scientifically can itself be integrated into the scientifically described world, as a natural phenomenon. Amongst other things, Rouse’s discussion addresses normativity and conceptual understanding, evolutionary biology and niche construction, language and discursive practice, the scientific and manifest images, experiment, laws and necessity, and the nature of objectivity. In the process, he engages with the work of philosophers including Davidson, Dreyfus, Brandom, Haugeland, McDowell, and Sellars. The course will subject Rouse’s text to a close critical reading.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

• participate in nine or more of the seminars
• submit eight 400 word chapter summaries and submit them no later than one week after the relevant seminar; students can choose which eight of the eleven main chapters they wish to summarize. (50%)
• write an extended book review of approximately 3000 words, in the style of Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (50%)

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Students will:
• learn how to read, interpret, and critically discuss a wide-ranging, ambitious, and difficult philosophical text
• become familiar with several interconnected philosophical problems, concerning the nature of naturalism, objectivity, concepts, normativity, and scientific practice
• learn how to write concise philosophical summaries that identify the key claims made in a chapter, and also identify points for further clarification and criticism
• participate critical discussion as part of a group
• summarise and critically discuss a substantial text by writing a review of it

Prüfungsstoff

• close reading of one complete text
• group discussions in seminars, each focused upon a particular chapter, which will (a) clarify the central themes of the chapter, and (b) critically discuss philosophical claims and arguments
• writing chapter summaries
• writing an extended book review

Literatur

The only essential reading for this course is Rouse’s book manuscript, which will be made available to students immediately after the first seminar. The relevant chapter should then be read before each of the remaining seminars. However, students are also encouraged to consult the work of other philosophers discussed by Rouse, and to look at Rouse’s previous book How Scientific Practices Matter: Reclaiming Philosophical Naturalism (University of Chicago Press, 2002).

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

MA M1, M3 B. Metaphysik/ Ontologie, Phänomenologie, Philosophie des Geistes
M5 Projekt - und Forschungsmodul, HPS M4

Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:36