General description

The area of specialization consists of five subfields of philosophy. The student must choose studies in at least two subfields.

Contents

The course familiarises the student with the subject matter of his/her thesis (cf. SY4) and with literature which supports the process of writing the thesis. It also deepens the student’s knowledge of different subfields of philosophy.

Evaluation

Numeric 1-5.

Study materials

a) Modern philosophy and the main movements of contemporary philosophy, for example: Cottingham: The Rationalists, Woolhouse: The Empiricists, Critchley and Schroeder (eds.): A Companion to Continental Philosophy, Wessels - Coffa: The Semantic Tradition From Kant to Carnap: To the Vienna Station, Floyd and Shieh (eds.) Future Pasts: The Analytic Philosophy in the Twentieth Century, Hochberg: Introducing Analytic Philosophy: Its Sense and its Nonsense 1879-2002, Moran and Mooney (eds.): The Phenomenology Reader, Reck (ed.): From Frege to Wittgenstein: Perspectives on Early Analytic Philosophy, Soames: Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, vols 1-2, Williams: Contemporary French Philosophy. b) The history of logic, philosophical logic and the philosophy of language, for example: Austin: How to Do Things with Words, Davidson: Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation, Engel: The Norm of Truth, Haack: Deviant Logic, Fuzzy Logic, Hintikka: Kieli ja mieli, Jacquette (ed.): Philosophy of Logic Kneale and Kneale: The Development of Logic, Loux (ed.): The Possible and the Actual, Mohanty: Logic, Truth and the Modalities: From a Phenomenological Perspective, Quine: Word and Object. c) Metaphysics, for example: Aristoteles: Metafysiikka, Armstrong: A World of States of Affairs, Chalmers: The Conscious Mind, Forbes: The Metaphysics of Modality, Heidegger: Sein und Zeit (Oleminen ja Aika), van Inwagen: Ontology, Identity, and Modality Kim and Sosa (eds.): A Companion to Metaphysics, Loux (ed.): Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings. d) Theory of knowledge and philosophy of science, for example: Curd and Cover: Philosophy of Science. The Central Issues, Gutting (ed.): Continental Philosophy of Science, Kitcher: The Advancement of Science, Kornblith (ed.): Epistemology: Internalism and Externalism, Lipton: Inference to the Best Explanation (2. revised edition), Psillos: Scientific Realism: How Science Tracks Truth, Salmon: Causality and Explanation, Sintonen (ed.): Biologian filosofian näkökulmia, Williamson: Knowledge and Its Limits, Woodward: Making Things Happen: A Theory of Causal Explanation. e) Ethics and social philosophy, for example: (1) The history and classics of practical philosophy: Schneewind: The Invention of Autonomy. A classic to be agreed upon and commentary literature. (2) Contemporary discussion: Hampshire: Morality and Conflict, Honneth: The Struggle for Recognition, Kymlicka: Contemporary Political Philosophy, MacIntyre: Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, & Tradition, Rawls: Political Liberalism, Sandel: Liberalism and the Limits of Justice, Searle: The Construction of Social Reality. Books may be chosen of both or of only one part. f) Philosophy of culture and art, for example: Bowie: From Romanticism to Critical Theory, Danto: The Transfiguration of the Commonplace, Gadamer: Wahrheit und Methode, Gombrich: Art and Illusion, McCormick: Modernity, Aesthetics and the Bounds of Art, Mortensen: Art in the Social Order; The Making of the Modern Conception of Art. Studies in options a)-f) may include studies in the history of philosophy. It is possible upon agreement to choose subfields of philosophy other than those listed above.

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