Discuss:
I. Philosophy of Psychoanalysis and Philosophical Anthropology
- Mind-body problem in Philosophical Anthropology
- Human-animal problem in Philosophical Anthropology
- Conscious-unconscious problem in Philosophical Anthropology
II. Applied Ethics
- Ethics and Applied Ethics
- Types of Applied Ethics
- Discourse Ethics as Applied Ethics
III. Philosophy of Intercultural Relations
- The moral necessity of recognition towards the “Other’s” cultural identity. The multiculturalist point of view
- How can we recognise the value of “other” cultures from the viewpoint of our own cultural standards?
Text: Taylor, Charles, “The Politics of Recognition”, In: Gutmann, Amy (ed.), Multiculturalism. Examining the Politics of Recognition, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1994
IV. Epistemology
- What is philosophy? Its nature, origin, and paradigms
- Meaning and truth. The philosophy of language – main problems and schools
- The analysis of knowledge. Recent challenges to the classical view
- Theories of truth
- The nature of mind. Philosophy and cognitive science
V. Social Philosophy
- Traditional and Modern community
- Globalisation and localisation
- Modernity and Post-Modernity
Zygmunt Bauman, Globalization; Community; Liquid Modernity (all available on the Internet).
VI. Continental Philosophy and Philosophy of Culture – 14
- G. W. F. Hegel: The Phenomenology of Spirit
- Husserl, his predecessors and phenomenology
- Critical theory: Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, Habermas
- Hermeneutics: Gadamer and Ricoeur
- French structuralism and post-structuralism: de Saussure, Lévi-Strauss, Barthes, Lacan, Foucault
- French feminist philosophy: de Beauvoir, Kristeva, Irigaray
- Deconstruction and Derrida; Postmodernist theory: Lyotard, Baudrillard and others
D. P. Verene, H E G E L’S A B S O L U T E: An Introduction to Reading the Phenomenology of Spirit (Albany,NY: State University of New York Press, 2007).
Routledge History of Philosophy. Vol. VIII, London and New York: Routledge, 1994
The Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy, Edited by Robert C. Solomon
and David Sherman (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003)
VII. Existential Dialectics & Time and History
- Overview of Existentialism
A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism, Edited by Hubert L. Dreyfus and Mark A. Wrathall, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. - Time and the Other
M. Dimitrova. “The Immemorial Time.” In Levinas’ Trace (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011)
M. Dimitrova. “Emmanuel Levinas: Time and Responsibility.” Sofia Philosophical Review, 2008, Vol. II, No. 1 compare and contrast philosopher’s works related to these questions.
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