Philosophy of Knowledge
Code
711031056
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Filosofia
Credits
6.0
Teacher in charge
Nuno Carlos Venturinha (IFL)
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Português
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
What is knowing?
What does it mean to know something? Do we adequately understand what knowledge is? Focusing on Plato’s Theaetetus, Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and Wittgenstein’s On Certainty and Last Writings on the Philosophy of Psychology, we shall explore the following themes: 1) our knowledge of the world, of other selves and of ourselves; 2) experience and recognition; 3) the distinction between subject and object; 4) the multifaceted character of intentional acts; 5) immediate and representative knowledge; 6) perception, apperception, imagination and reason; 7) the empirical and the transcendental; 8) empiricism and rationalism; 9) dogmatism, scepticism and criticism; 10) opinion, belief and knowledge; 11) conviction, persuasion and certainty; 12) theoretical and practical certainty.
Bibliography
PLATÃO, Theaetetus, ed. bilingue, trad. de H. N. Fowler, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1921; Teeteto, trad. de A M. Nogueira e M. Boeri, Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2005.
KANT, I., Kritik der reinen Vernunft, 2 vols., Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp, 1974; Critique of Pure Reason, trad. de P. Guyer e A W. Wood, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998; Crítica da Razão Pura, trad. de M. P. dos Santos e A. F. Morujão, Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1985.
WITTGENSTEIN, L., On Certainty, ed. bilingue, trad. de G. E. M. Anscombe, Oxford, Blackwell, ed. rev., 1974; Da Certeza, ed. bilingue, trad. de M. E. Costa, Lisboa, Edições 70, 1990.
WITTGENSTEIN, L., Last Writings on the Philosophy of Psychology. Preliminary Studies for Part II of Philosophical Investigations, vol. I, ed bilingue, trad. de C. G. Luckhardt e M. A. E. Aue, Oxford, Blackwell, 1982; Últimos Escritos sobre a Filosofia da Psicologia, trad. de A. Marques, N. Venturinha e J. T. Proença, Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2007.
WITTGENSTEIN, L., Last Writings on the Philosophy of Psychology. The Inner and the Outer 1949-1951, vol. II, ed. bilingue, trad. de C. G. Luckhardt e M. A. E. Aue, Oxford, Blackwell, 1992; Últimos Escritos sobre a Filosofia da Psicologia, trad. de A. Marques, N. Venturinha e J. T. Proença, Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2007.
A bibliografia secundária será mencionada ao longo do curso
Teaching method
The method adopted for the class will combine exposition of the readings and commentaries on them along with discussion of student papers.
Evaluation method
Besides a final exam (60%), each student is required to write a paper to be presented and discussed in class (40%).