2023
Detailed Problems of Contemporary Philosophy
Name: Detailed Problems of Contemporary Philosophy
Code: FIL12624D
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Philosophy
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Presentation
The UC critically presents some of the central themes of the philosophical contemporaneity, discussing the different positions they raise.
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
Develop expertise for treating important issues of contemporary philosophical.
Foster in students the practice of a methodologically consistent approach to themes of their nascent
projects
Integration of students in the course teachers of the research lines.
Practice of academic work, formally correct, conceptually precise and well structured.
Foster in students the practice of a methodologically consistent approach to themes of their nascent
projects
Integration of students in the course teachers of the research lines.
Practice of academic work, formally correct, conceptually precise and well structured.
Contents
1) The philosophy of Jacques Derrida:
Deconstruction and method.
Deconstruction, phonè and writing. Which is to say that there is nothing outside the text?
A contemporary re-reading of Plato's Phaedrus.
Deconstructing (in the form of an interview): "The Language (Le Monde the phone)" 1982.
2) Method and mediation:
History: outer reflexion and moving through the thing itself
Modernity: from the crisis of foundationalisms to critical theory and the plane of immanence
Contemporaneity: colapse of the methods into the media
Theories of mediation and the uprooting of the metaphysical Primum: the role of aesthetics within
ontology
3) Contemporary metaphysics ways:
From enigma of "being there" to "there, the spirit verb": Parmenides and Pessoa, Heidegger and Jose
Marinho.
Believe, know and act, grounds and foundations. The renewal of the sense of habitus.
The dwelling and the questioning of the relationship between human and nonhuman. Cultural shaping
and the new landscapes.
Deconstruction and method.
Deconstruction, phonè and writing. Which is to say that there is nothing outside the text?
A contemporary re-reading of Plato's Phaedrus.
Deconstructing (in the form of an interview): "The Language (Le Monde the phone)" 1982.
2) Method and mediation:
History: outer reflexion and moving through the thing itself
Modernity: from the crisis of foundationalisms to critical theory and the plane of immanence
Contemporaneity: colapse of the methods into the media
Theories of mediation and the uprooting of the metaphysical Primum: the role of aesthetics within
ontology
3) Contemporary metaphysics ways:
From enigma of "being there" to "there, the spirit verb": Parmenides and Pessoa, Heidegger and Jose
Marinho.
Believe, know and act, grounds and foundations. The renewal of the sense of habitus.
The dwelling and the questioning of the relationship between human and nonhuman. Cultural shaping
and the new landscapes.
Teaching Methods
The modules will work in seminar regime with theoretical and practical methodology, including
exposure, accompanied by reading and commentary of texts. Debate is encouraged, involving all
participants and occupying a substantial part of the sessions. It may eventually integrate guest lecturers.
Students are also encouraged to participate in scientific meetings, taking place on topics or fields related
to their investigations.
Evaluation will be based on:
1) attendance and active participation (10%);
2) Each student must hold at
least one oral presentation on a methodological stream, or on a text or theme analysed from that
perspective, or a report (20%);
3) at the end of the semester, students must submit a test of c. 10
pages on one of the taught modules or the integrated conferences (70%).
exposure, accompanied by reading and commentary of texts. Debate is encouraged, involving all
participants and occupying a substantial part of the sessions. It may eventually integrate guest lecturers.
Students are also encouraged to participate in scientific meetings, taking place on topics or fields related
to their investigations.
Evaluation will be based on:
1) attendance and active participation (10%);
2) Each student must hold at
least one oral presentation on a methodological stream, or on a text or theme analysed from that
perspective, or a report (20%);
3) at the end of the semester, students must submit a test of c. 10
pages on one of the taught modules or the integrated conferences (70%).
Teaching Staff
- João Tiago Reis Pedroso de Lima [responsible]
