Undervisningsprogram i Praktisk filosofi Vårterminen C- och M-kurser

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1 Undervisningsprogram i Praktisk filosofi Vårterminen 2015 C- och M-kurser Filosofiska institutionen

2 KURSFORDRINGAR Ni som denna termin läser Praktisk filosofi C skall läsa följande moment: C uppsats 15 hp Observera att närvaro i C & magister seminarierna (CM seminarierna) är obligatorisk. Första sammankomst äger rum tisdagen den 20 januari kl Eng Två valfria kurser om 7,5 hp vardera. Se kursutbudet. KURSUTBUD I PRAKTISK FILOSOFI VÅRTERMINEN 2015 VALFRIA KURSER PÅ BC-NIVÅ Jämlikhet och libertarianism Formell axiologi Magnus Jedenheim-Edling Erik Carlson Self-Knowledge Pauliina Remes MASTER/MAGISTER-KURSER dessa kurser är även öppna för C-studenter Formell axiologi Erik Carlson SEMINARIER Aristotle: Nicomachean etics Pauliina Remes och Alexander Stöpfgeshoff CM seminarium i praktisk filosofi Kent Gustavsson första sammankomst tisdagen den 20 januari kl i Seminarierummet (Eng2-1022)

3 KURSBESKRIVNINGAR ÖVRIGA B- OCH C- KURSER Jämlikhet och libertarianism Lärare: Magnus Jedenheim-Edling Kurslitteratur o Ett textkompendium, som kommer att finnas tillgängligt vid kursens start Formell axiologi Lärare: Erik Carlson Kurslitteratur o Ett textkompendium, som kommer att finnas tillgängligt vid kursens start För schema, se kursen med samma namn under Masterkurser.

4 MASTERKURSER (öppna även för C-studenter) Self Knowledge Instructors: Pauliina Remes Description Our relationship to ourselves seems special. While I certainly learn things about myself in the same way that I learn things about trees outside in the park, or of people in my family, or faraway cultures, it has seemed to many that some things about ourselves are available to us in a special way. Arguably, I am the only person in the world that knows when and how much it hurts in my back, infallibly or incorrigibly, without having to do any extra work to gain this knowledge. It also seems that no-one can challenge that I am in pain, that today's wind feels cold to me, or that I am the sole person to be likely to know, without reporting it, which thought I entertained when just entering the library. I have a first-personal authority over at least some of my mental states. Within history of philosophy, this kind of immediate relationship has sometimes been lifted to a privileged and fundamental position within a given epistemological theory as a whole. The course is a course on self-knowledge as an epistemological phenomenon: on what today is most frequently called 'self-knowledge' within a broadly analytical approach; on different theories on self-knowledge; on whether self-knowledge as knowledge of one's own mental states is special, and what this specialty possibly could involve. We will also attempt to differentiate self-knowledge understood in this way from other, related concepts like that of self-awareness. The students are asked to register by an to pauliina.remes@filosofi.uu, by January the 26th, 2015 (late registrations are accepted, but it will be informative, for structuring the course, to know approximately how many we are). Study materials and literature: The course book is Brie Gerler 2011 Self-Knowledge. New Problems of Philosophy. Routledge. The contents of the book will be presented and discussed in and through the lectures. Some additional articles will be provided as a study pack/reader, to be purchased at the department approximately one week before the first lecture.

5 Formell axiologi Lärare: Erik Carlson Kurslitteratur o Ett textkompendium, som kommer att finnas tillgängligt vid kursens start

6 Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics: Happiness, virtue and character Teachers: Pauliina Remes (lectures, one seminar) Alexander Stöpfgeshoff (seminars) Aristotle's ethics is perhaps one the most influential heritages of ancient philosophy. His ethics have had an enormous influence on late ancient, medieval and contemporary philosophy. His account of happiness, or well-being (eudaimonia), of virtue, practical rationality, as well as education and characterformation enjoys continued interest among moral philosophers today. In the course we will read Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, his most mature and extensive treatise on morality. It is often considered to be one of the most important works ever written about ethics. We will begin with a short introduction to the book, its place within Aristotle's whole corpus, its structure and central methodology, central notions, and the conception of ethical inquiry arising in it. We will discuss the nature of ethical inquiry and its relationship to other "sciences" or epistemai. The main part of the course concerns Aristotle's account of the virtues: What is the human good? Why ought we to see happiness as virtuous activity? How can virtue be defined? How do we account for the their variety? What is the relation between virtue and the different parts of human soul? How is virtue acquired? What is the cognitive and conative component of the virtues? What is the role of pleasure in virtue? What is the difference between intellectual and moral virtue? Are different virtues connected? What are the relation between moral character and practical wisdom (phronêsis)? What is the role of contemplation in happiness? We will also discuss Aristotle's account of some specific virtues, such as moderation, justice and practical wisdom. The seminars will focus on some of these questions and on different interpretations (found in the secondary literature) of Aristotle's account of virtues. Please register before the 13th of April Course book and -materials The course books are two: Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy,

7 transl. Roger Crisp, 2000 CUP Sarah Broadie: Ethics with Aristotle, 1991 OUP. (paperback or ebook) In addition, the teachers will provide a selection of articles as the basis for the shared seminars.

8 Filosofiska Institutionen, Uppsala universitet Postadress: Box 627, Uppsala Besöksadress: Engelska parken, Humanistiskt centrum, Thunbergsvägen 3 H, hus 2. Hemsida Prefekt Lars-Göran Johansson <lars-goran.johansson@filosofi.uu.se> Studierektor grundutbildning Rysiek Sliwinski <rysiek.sliwinski@filosofi.uu.se> Studierektor forskarutbildning Matti Eklund <matti.eklund@filosofi.uu.se> Kursadministratör Paulina Hansen <paulina.hansen@filosofi.uu.se> Lärare vid Filosofiska institutionen vårterminen 2015 AHONEN-JONNARTH, Ulla <ulla.ahonen-jonnarth@hig.se> ALGANDER, Per <per.algander@filosofi.uu.se> ANDERSSON, Emil <emil.andersson@filosofi.uu.se> AXELSSON, Karl <karl.axelsson@estetik.uu.se> BERGMAN, Karl <karl.bergman@filosofi.uu.se> BOSTRÖM, Erik, <erik.boström@filosofi.uu.se> BOBERG, Johan <johan.boberg@filosofi.uu.se> JANSSON BOSTRÖM, Erik <erik.bostrom@filosofi.uu.se > BRÜCK, Carl-Filip <carl.filip.bruck@philosophy.su.se> CARLSON, Erik <erik.carlson@filosofi.uu.se> EKENBERG, Tomas <tomas.ekenberg@filosofi.uu.se> EKENDAHL, Karl <karl.ekendahl@filosofi.uu.se> EKLUND, Matti <matti.eklund@filosofi.uu.se> ENFLO, Karin <karin.enflo@filosofi.uu.se> ENTZENBERG, Claes <claes.entzenberg@estetik.uu.se> FLODIN, Camilla <camilla.flodin@estetik.uu.se> FORSBERG, Maria, <maria.forsberg@philosophy.su.se> FRANZÉN, Nils, <nils.franzen@filosofi.uu.se> GUSTAVSSON, Kent, <kent.gustavsson@filosofi.gu.se> HÅLLÉN, Elinor, <elinor.hallen@filosofi.uu.se> JEDENHEIM-EDLING, Magnus <magnus.jedenheim@filosofi.uu.se > JOHANSSON, Jens <jens.johansson@filosofi.uu.se > JOHANSSON, Lars-Göran <lars goran.johansson@filosofi.uu.se > MASTERTON, George <george.masterton@filosofi.uu.se >

9 MINDUS, Patricia > MOBERGER, Victor, > MOLIN, Rebecka > NATZEN, Christopher > REMES, Pauliina, RIDER, Sharon RYDÉHN, Henrik > SCHELLEKENS, Elisabeth STETTE, Hallvard STÖPFGESHOFF, Alexander SLIWINSKI, Rysiek TERSMAN, WIKBLOM, Andreas