Project Seminar

Code: FIL12625D

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Philosophy

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Presentation

The main purpose of this UC is that each PhD student develops the technical and philosophical skills that are essential to design a PhD thesis project in Philosophy.

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.

Redução das desigualdades - Reduzir as desigualdades dentro dos países e entre eles.

Paz e Justiça - Paz, justiça e instituições eficazes promover sociedades pacíficas e inclusivas par ao desenvolvimento sustentável, proporcionar o acesso à justiça para todos e construir instituições eficazes, responsáveis
e inclusivas em todos os níveis.

Learning Goals

The fundamental purpose of learning is to develop the student ability to draw up the draft of a doctoral
thesis.
In this sense, it is intended to
(1) acquire the basic technical information which might lead to
structured and finished construction thereof;
and (2) exercise its ability to produce preparatory texts,
ending up driving the drafting and registration.
In this sense, they should
(3) develop the knowledge of
either the primary bibliography in order to clarify the central idea of your project, as has the novelty, or
secondary, in order to draw the horizon, on which it is part, a consistent state of the art.

1. Meaning of research in Philosophy

2. Steps and components of a research project

3. Text: the common-denominator research in Philosophy

4. Different types of text: plurality in the presentation of research results

5. Edition of philosophical texts - their sources, rules and procedures

6. Research projects for the production of academic work
6.1. The preparation of the draft PhD thesis and formal requirements for its institutional registration
6.2. State of the art and original thesis

7. Ethics requirements

Teaching Methods

The seminar operates in attendance. The program themes will be presented by teachers, using concrete
examples, by entering, gradually, the student projects, while work in progress, exposed to discussion.
The work of the seminar should lead the student to present the idea and theme of their thesis, and its
place in the state of the art; goals; the general scheme; internal joints and scenario building; possible
conclusions. This work will be translated in the writing of the dissertation project, to the approved
design in university.

The evaluation will be based on:
1) attendance and active participation (10%);
2) the phased presentation and discussion of each project, taking into account the guiding (20%);
3) the elaborate project according to the approved design (70%).