Spring 2025
CORE145 Rational Reasoning: Informal Logic and Critical Thinking
https://is.muni.cz/auth/predmet/phil/jaro2025/CORE145
Humans were famously defined by Aristotle as *rational animals* since humans endeavor to decide and act rationally. Fortunately, RATIONAL REASONING can be educated; "tools of logic, probability, and causal inference run through every kind of human knowledge. Rationality should be the fourth R, together with reading, writing, and arithmetic“ (Steven Pinker. Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters, 2021:314). This practically oriented course aims to increase one's capability in INFORMAL LOGIC (as RR is often called in English-speaking countries) and CRITICAL THINKING (as RR is mostly called in many other countries).
PHA0001 Philosophy for Non-Philosophical Disciplines Students
https://is.muni.cz/auth/predmet/phil/jaro2025/PHA0001
The course introduces philosophy to students who do not take a degree in philosophy at the Faculty of Arts. The approach is systematic rather than historical. The lectures offer analyses of basic philosophical concepts, such as morality, God, knowledge, truth, and self, along with major theories and arguments that focus on these concepts. Part of the course is devoted to philosophical methodology, offering the basics of critical thinking and argumentation. In-class discussion is supplemented with assigned readings on relevant topics.
Autumn 2024
PHV438 XXth-Century Czech Philosophy: Selected Chapters
https://is.muni.cz/auth/predmet/phil/podzim2024/PHV438
The aim of the course is to introduce students to the most important personalities of Czech philosophical thought in the XXth century. Students will read and comment selected texts of Czech philosophers (Masaryk, Patočka, Komárková), or intellectuals whose ideas have philosophical aspects and connotations (Havel, Kundera). The texts proposed in the course will be completed by relevant explanation of contemporary social and political contexts.
PHV444en Proof, Meaning, Computation
https://is.muni.cz/auth/predmet/phil/podzim2024/PHV444en
Selected topics mainly from logic on the borderline of computer science, philosophy, mathematics, AI, and even formal linguistics. The aim is to gather essential knowledge from the rich area of the PHILOSOPHY OF COMPUTER SCIENCE and PHILOSOPHY OF COMPUTING. It overlaps even with the COMPUTATIONAL PHILOSOPHY and it is a part of the PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY.
Spring 2024
PHA0001 Philosophy for Non-Philosophical Disciplines Students
https://is.muni.cz/auth/predmet/phil/jaro2024/PHA0001
The course introduces philosophy to students who do not take a degree in philosophy at the Faculty of Arts. The approach is systematic rather than historical. The lectures offer analyses of basic philosophical concepts, such as morality, God, knowledge, truth, and self, along with major theories and arguments that focus on these concepts. Part of the course is devoted to philosophical methodology, offering the basics of critical thinking and argumentation. In-class discussion is supplemented with assigned readings on relevant topics.
PHV443en Philosophical Logic: Selected Chapters
https://is.muni.cz/auth/predmet/phil/jaro2024/PHV443en
The overall mission of the course is to launch some most important topics of contemporary philosophical logic that extend the knowledge from introductory logical courses (that consists classical mathematical logic) as taught in the western departments of philosophy (but even computer science or math). For example, we already know the standard notion of logical consequence, but we put more light on it from a theoretical (or philosophical, if you like) perspective. Similarly, we already got a glimpse of some non-classical logics (e.g. modal, epistemic, ...) from the introductory logic course but we show here the next essential pack of knowledge.
Autumn 2023
PHA0001 Philosophy for Non-Philosophical Disciplines Students
https://is.muni.cz/auth/predmet/phil/podzim2023/PHA0001
The course introduces philosophy to students who do not take a degree in philosophy at the Faculty of Arts. The approach is systematic rather than historical. The lectures offer analyses of basic philosophical concepts, such as morality, God, knowledge, truth, and self, along with major theories and arguments that focus on these concepts. Part of the course is devoted to philosophical methodology, offering the basics of critical thinking and argumentation. In-class discussion is supplemented with assigned readings on relevant topics.
Spring 2023
PHV438 XXth-Century Czech Philosophy: Selected Chapters
https://is.muni.cz/auth/predmet/phil/jaro2023/PHV438
The aim of the course is to introduce students to the most important personalities of Czech philosophical thought in the XXth century. Students will read and comment selected texts of Czech philosophers (Masaryk, Patočka, Komárková), or intellectuals whose ideas have philosophical aspects and connotations (Havel, Kundera). The texts proposed in the course will be completed by relevant explanation of contemporary social and political contexts.
PHV442en Logic in Philosophy: Selected Chapters
ARTS088 Logic and Argumentation for Everyone
Autumn 2022
PHA0001 Philosophy for Non-Philosophical Disciplines Students
https://is.muni.cz/auth/predmet/phil/podzim2022/PHA0001
The course introduces philosophy to students who do not take a degree in philosophy at the Faculty of Arts. The approach is systematic rather than historical. The lectures offer analyses of basic philosophical concepts, such as morality, God, knowledge, truth, and self, along with major theories and arguments that focus on these concepts. Part of the course is devoted to philosophical methodology, offering the basics of critical thinking and argumentation. In-class discussion is supplemented with assigned readings on relevant topics.