2025
Operational Models of Contemporary Philosophical Thought
Name: Operational Models of Contemporary Philosophical Thought
Code: FIL14577M
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Philosophy
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Presentation
Displaying an encyclopaedic overview of contemporary philosophy (per author and per school of thought), the CU envisages it as a virtual repository for operative models of thought, translatable into crucial epistemological tools for the understanding and moulding of todays realities and knowledge
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Learning Goals
Lead the student to assimilate and operate with the great structuring modes of philosophical thought offered by the contemporary encyclopedia of currents, schools and authors, which constitute models of rationality, understanding and intellection recurrent in the theoretical and cultural discourse of the human sciences and of other knowledge.
Enable the student to operate with these thought matrices in the reality of today's world, namely:
- Be able to trace the various fields of relevant current issues
- Select the conceptual tools that best allow the analysis of the current period and its challenges
- Apply these conceptual tools to contemporary issues.
The student will address four topics (renewable annually from an extensive list), comprising a cross-sectional historical topic (currents) and three topics centered on the authorial brand (its theoretical unit and its thematic and conceptual constellation).
Enable the student to operate with these thought matrices in the reality of today's world, namely:
- Be able to trace the various fields of relevant current issues
- Select the conceptual tools that best allow the analysis of the current period and its challenges
- Apply these conceptual tools to contemporary issues.
The student will address four topics (renewable annually from an extensive list), comprising a cross-sectional historical topic (currents) and three topics centered on the authorial brand (its theoretical unit and its thematic and conceptual constellation).
Contents
The list of themes (25%) and authors (75%) is indicative, not exhaustive, and will be rotated annually
1. Philosophy as an invention of concepts and interpretive models
- Some modern theoretical models: dialectical, phenomenological, hermeneutic, structuralist, analytical, deconstructionist, psychoanalytic
- The human figure from the Enlightenment project to the Anthropocene crisis
2. Paradigmatic philosophical thinkers
- Deleuze, or the plane of immanence: difference and identity, CsO, becoming and agency, crystal-image, rhizome, deterritorialization
- Hannah Arendt: the banality of evil and the political emptying of philosophy, or the absence of thought.
- José Ortega y Gasset and the ethos of authenticity: circumstance and desire for adventure; culture, irony, perspective
- José Marinho, from metaphysical ethics to philosophical soteriology.
- Heidegger: Ge-Stell as a model of the technological world and culture
Other possible thinkers:Sloterdijk, iek, Foucault, Lourenço, Derrida
1. Philosophy as an invention of concepts and interpretive models
- Some modern theoretical models: dialectical, phenomenological, hermeneutic, structuralist, analytical, deconstructionist, psychoanalytic
- The human figure from the Enlightenment project to the Anthropocene crisis
2. Paradigmatic philosophical thinkers
- Deleuze, or the plane of immanence: difference and identity, CsO, becoming and agency, crystal-image, rhizome, deterritorialization
- Hannah Arendt: the banality of evil and the political emptying of philosophy, or the absence of thought.
- José Ortega y Gasset and the ethos of authenticity: circumstance and desire for adventure; culture, irony, perspective
- José Marinho, from metaphysical ethics to philosophical soteriology.
- Heidegger: Ge-Stell as a model of the technological world and culture
Other possible thinkers:Sloterdijk, iek, Foucault, Lourenço, Derrida
Teaching Methods
Theoretical exposition (supported by digital resources) and practical textual analysis, focused on anthological selections carefully compiled by the professors (in addition to the titles indicated in the bibliography), as a privileged basis for acquiring a simultaneously in-depth and panoramic view of the contemporary encyclopedia of theories, concepts, themes, trends and authors; and as a platform for their joint exploration through debate. Written and videographic material.
The use of polyteaching has the virtue of enhancing the concentration and specialization of each teaching module, while at the same time sensitizing to the diversity of ways of thinking, inherent to the objectives and contents of the discipline.
Continuous assessment, preferably, based on attendance and participation in classes (20%) and written assignments of various types, to be distributed among all modules that make up the discipline (4 x 20%). Alternatively, final written test (exam, 100%).
The use of polyteaching has the virtue of enhancing the concentration and specialization of each teaching module, while at the same time sensitizing to the diversity of ways of thinking, inherent to the objectives and contents of the discipline.
Continuous assessment, preferably, based on attendance and participation in classes (20%) and written assignments of various types, to be distributed among all modules that make up the discipline (4 x 20%). Alternatively, final written test (exam, 100%).
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