Introduction to Technical Culture

Code: FIL14583M

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Philosophy

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Presentation

The unit aims to understand the importance and socio-cultural significance of technical progress and its consequences in the ideological and productive reconfiguration of vital dynamics and global politics.

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.

Energias renováveis e acessíveis - Garantir acesso à energia barata, confiável, sustentável e renovável para todos.

Indústria, inovação e infraestruturas - Construir infraestrutura resiliente, promover a industrialização inclusiva e sustentável, e fomentar a inovação.

Learning Goals

To understand the importance and socio-cultural significance of technical progress and its consequences in the ideological and productive reconfiguration of vital dynamics and global politics.
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. Technique and Modernity: the birth of a new cultural paradigm
2. Technique, technology, technoscience: the concepts and its historical context.
3. Some philosophical readings of the technical phenomenon
4. Towards an ethics of the technological world: the proposal of Hans Jonas
5. The technical mediation of information in the configuration of the common world: the digital.

Teaching Methods

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, final written test (exam).