Topics of Philosophy of Technology

Code: FIL14420D

3 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours

Scientific Area: Philosophy

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Presentation

Optional.

Sustainable Development Goals

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Cidades e comunidades sustentáveis - Tornar as cidades e os assentamentos humanos inclusivos, seguros, resilientes e sustentáveis.

Produção e consumo sustentáveis - Assegurar padrões de produção e de consumo sustentáveis.

Ação climática - Tomar medidas urgentes para combater a mudança climática e seus impactos (*).

Learning Goals

To understand the problematic nexus linked to the question of technique as an ontological phenomenon and in its cultural meaning.
To acquire operational conceptual tools for the analysis of current civilization and culture.
To apply such conceptual schemes in understanding new situations and phenomena

1. From Technique to technology as a cultural and historical event: the civilazation of technics.
2. Technical objects and technical images
3. The technique, the writing of the world and the digital phenomenon: from media to network.
4. Some philosophical and ethical readings of the technical phenomenon

Teaching Methods

Attendance regime and, in duly justified cases, possible online participation Theoretical exposition (supported by digital resources) and practice textual analysis, as a privileged basis for debate. Written and videographic material.
Continuous assessment, preferably, based on attendance and participation in classes (20%) and written assignments of various types (80%). Alternatively, participation with a communication in a scientific event may be taken into consideration.