1 Philosophy 1.Introduction A. The study of philosophy was long synonymous with the wish to acquire comprehensive, dependable, well-founded knowledge. In today's developed system of science basic knowledge of philosophy and its past are still a necessary part not only in the humanities and social sciences but in all developed scientific endeavors. All exemplary universities have departments for philosophy, both for students of the subject and to give all their students the opportunity to learn philosophy. B. In some European countries philosophy is an important subject in assessing the ability of candidates for higher learning as well as an important subject in secondary schools (France is an example). Croatia also offers philosophy (sometimes logic and ethics as additional subjects) in the curriculum of state financed secondary schools. C. The program takes into account both the role of philosophy in European schools and the role of philosophy at undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate levels at the research universities of the USA and in the European universities continuing the Humboldt tradition. D. Philosophy is taught at the University of Zagreb from the foundation of higher learning 2. General Section 2.1. Name of programme: Philosophy 2.2. Institution: Philosophical Faculty; Department for Philosophy 2.3. Duration of Undergraduate Studies: 4 years: Graduate Studies: 1 year; Doctoral Studies 3 years 2.4. Entry requirements: Admission to undergraduate level: the entrance examination of the Philosophical faculty; Admission to graduate level: philosophy major on undergraduate level or equivalent knowledge expressed in ETCS. 2.5. Undergraduate studies in philosophy give knowledge and develop skills useful in all areas and activities where a trained, logical, articulate and well- founded approach to problem solving is needed: institutions, media, public service etc.
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Philosophy
1.Introduction
A. The study of philosophy was long synonymous with the wish to acquire comprehensive,
dependable, well-founded knowledge. In today's developed system of science basic
knowledge of philosophy and its past are still a necessary part not only in the humanities and
social sciences but in all developed scientific endeavors. All exemplary universities have
departments for philosophy, both for students of the subject and to give all their students the
opportunity to learn philosophy.
B. In some European countries philosophy is an important subject in assessing the ability of
candidates for higher learning as well as an important subject in secondary schools (France is
an example). Croatia also offers philosophy (sometimes logic and ethics as additional
subjects) in the curriculum of state financed secondary schools.
C. The program takes into account both the role of philosophy in European schools and the role
of philosophy at undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate levels at the research universities
of the USA and in the European universities continuing the Humboldt tradition.
D. Philosophy is taught at the University of Zagreb from the foundation of higher learning
2. General Section
2.1. Name of programme: Philosophy
2.2. Institution: Philosophical Faculty; Department for Philosophy
Course Title: The History of Philosophy as Introduction to Philosophy
ECTS: 5
Language: Croatian
Duration: 1 semester, 4 hours weekly
Status: compulsory, first semester
Method: lecture
Requirements: -
Exam: oral
Description: Philosophy and Being. History and Being. The history of philosophy as the philosophy of
philosophy. History as time (individuation). Time as measure of temporality and contemporality.
History in time: philosophers, their work, “schools”, circumstances, context, influences; the past,
present and future of philosophy.
Objective: Entering the realm of philosophy
Compulsory reading: The works of Plato and Aristotle
Instructor: Prof. Branko Despot
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Subject: History of Philosophy
Course Titles: History of Philosophy 1, History of Philosophy 2
ETCS: 5 ETCS, 5 ETCS
Language: Croatian
Duration: 2x1 semester, 4 hours weekly
Status: compulsory second semester, compulsory fourth semester
Method: lecture
Exam: oral
Description: The highest philosophy: the difference between pseudo-philosophy, non-philosophy and
philosophy. The possible and the impossible: logic and ontology. A critique of disciplines.
Transcending history and the world as a scientific-technical-cybernetic construction .
Objective: To become a philosopher
Compulsory reading I
Hegel, Fenomenologija duha
Hegel, Znanost logike
Compulsory reading 2
Hegel, Osnovne crte filozofije prava
Hegel, Enciklopedija filozofijskih znanosti
Instructor: Prof. Branko Despot
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Course title: Introduction to Symbolic Logic
ECTS credits: 5
Language: Croatian
Duration: 1 term
Status: Elective
Teaching and learning methods: Lectures 4 hours per week
Prerequisites: -
Exam: written/oral
Description: The subject and structure of logic. Classical notion of validity. Logic of propositions and
predicate logic. Propositional logic: theories of propositions and the principle of bivalence, truth
functions, validity of argument in the propositional logic. Functional bases and the language of
propositional calculus. Formal systems. Validity and consistency, completeness and independence in
axiomatic systems. Axiomatic approach, natural deduction and truth-trees for propositional logic.
Predicate logic: analysis of elementary propositions and the language of predicate logic. Axiomatic
systems of predicate logic, natural deduction, sequential calculus and truth trees for predicate logic.
Objectives:: The objective is introducing students to the elements of symbolic logic, especially to the
parts necessary for further study of logic. Beside getting acquainted with central notions of
contemporary logic, students should also master elementary techniques of symbolic logic.
Instructor: Prof. Goran Švob/Ass. Davor Lauc
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Course title: Methodology of Science
ECTS credits: 3
Language: Croatian
Duration: 1 term
Status: Elective
Teaching and learning methods: Lectures 2 hours per week
Prerequisites: -
Exam: written/oral
Description: Methods of science; Selected parts of logic relevant for philosophy of science; Deductive
method; Structure of science: Scientific laws, Axiomatic systems and scientific theories; Non-
deductive inference: inductive methods, probability calculus; abduction and inference to best
explanation; The problem of induction; The demarcation problem; Development of science; Natural
sciences and social sciences and humanities.
Objectives: The objectives of the course is to provide students with an understanding of fundamental
concepts and problems of methodology of science from the perspective of the contemporary
philosophy of science. Students are encouraged to use course materials in critical examinations of
scientific fields they study.
Instructor: Ass. Davor Lauc
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Course Title: The Responsibility of Philosophers
ECTS :3
Language: Croatian
Duration: 1 semester, 2 hours weekly
Status: compulsory/elective
Method: lecture +discussion
Requirement. –
Exam: paper
Description: Analysing the differences in views, concepts, decisions of philosophers from Plato to
Heidegger and the public role of philosophers and intellectuals in general. What is ideological bias?
Can we codify ethical standards?
Objective: enable students to understand types of responsibility in philosophy: “inner, individual and
as part of a professional body.
Compulsory reading
R.Bernstein, Odgovornost filozofa
J.Benda, Izdaja intelektualaca
Ethical codici of different professions
Additional reading
T.Honderich, A Kind of Life
B.Magee, Confessions of a Philosopher
Instructor: Prof.Žarko Puhovski
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Course: Academic Writing
Lecturer: Dr Pavel Gregorić
ECTS: 3
Language: Croatian
Duration: 1 semester, 1 session a week
Status: Compulsory in semester 1 for students of the research programme,
elective in semesters 3-8 for students of the teaching programme
Format: Lectures + practical classes
Requirements: Attending (max. 3 absences)
Tutorials
Conditions: ––––
Final mark: 65% written exam
35% practical work
Description: Preparatory work
- finding literature (data bases, libraries, bookshops, Internet)
- reading literature (types and ways of reading)
- making notes
- drafting
Writing
- structure of academic written work (title, introduction, main
body, conclusion)
- argumentation (statement, proof, evidence, example,
qualification)
- style (clarity, brevity, relevance)
- features of academic work (quotations, references, bibliography)
- kinds of academic discourse
Finishing
- organising written work
- proofreading
- editing
Handbooks
- dictionaries
- encyclopaedias
- grammars
Objectives: To enable students to write essays and other written assignments
To introduce students to basics of academic research
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Literature: Zelenika, R., Metodologija i tehnologija izrade znanstvenog i
Stručnog rada, Rijeka, 2000., str. 180-194, 259-308,
428-469, 481-546.
Creme, P. and M. R. Lea, Writing at University: A Guide for Students
Buckingham and Philadelphia, 1997.
Dunleavy, P., Izrada doktorata: Kako planirati, skicirati, pisati i
dovršiti doktorsku disertaciju, Zagreb, 2005, str. 131-158.
Eco, Umberto, Come si fa una tesi di laurea, Milano, 1977.
(slovenski i njemački prijevod)
Zerubavel, E., The Clockwork Muse: A Practical Guide to Writing
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Subject: Philosophical Anthropology
ECTS: 5
Language: Croatian
Duration: 1 semester
Status: compulsory
Format: 4 h lecture per week
Entry requirements: inscription in the third semester
Examination: oral examination
Course description: Methodological problems. The relation to the other philosophical disciplines, to
empirical anthropology (biological, social, cultural etc.) and to the humanistic and social sciences.
Knowledge of man and (self)understanding of man. Problem of the essence and nature of man, non-
objectivistic view of philosophical anthropology and its practical sense. Concept of the man in the
history of philosophy. Kant’s role in the development of anthropological thinking. Constitution of the
philosophical anthropology in works of Scheler, Plessner, Gehlen and others. Body/soul relation and
the concepts of mind, subject, historicity, language, social being and culture. Philosophical
anthropology, contemporary philosophy and anthropological thinking.
Course objectives: The students should be acquainted with the methodological, theoretical and
substantial aspects of the man as a topic of investigation and reflection. The special position of a man
and special status of the anthropological knowledge and thinking and their relation to the moral
sciences, also the position of the philosophical anthropology in the philosophy as a whole should be
demonstrated. It is a contribution to the appropriation of the argumentative discussion and of the
dialog as a form of the philosophical thinking.
Examining literature:
Max Scheler: Ideja čovjeka i antropologija
Helmuth Plessner: Stupnjevi organskoga i čovjek or Condicio humana
Arnold Gehlen: Čovjek. Njegova priroda i njegov položaj u svijetu or Čovjek i institucije
Ernst Cassirer: Ogled o čovjeku
Eugen Fink: Temeljni fenomeni ljudskog postojanja
Marcus/Fischer: Antropologija kao kritika kulture
Additional literature
Instructors: Professor Hotimir Burger/Assistant Mladen Planinc
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Course Title: Political Philosophy
ECTS: 5 ETCS
Language: Croatian
Duration: 1 term
Status: compulsory (lectures), elective(seminars)
Teaching and learning methods: lectures, seminar
Prerequisites: third term
Methods of assessment: oral examination, paper in seminars
Course description: the programme includes crucial categories of the discipline and their modifications
in theoretical reflection, but also in different ideologisation and political utilization. The course deals
with the concept of the community, the constitution and legitimation of the state, the character of
power and other communicational forms of political action, with the social contextualisation of the
political, with relations between the individual and the collectivity, different levels of political
organization (from local to world community) and even with the application of political forms in the
private sphere. New courses are offered every academic year.
Objective: to achieve mastery over the discipline
Compulsory reading
Aristotel, Politika,
Machiavelli, Vladar
Morus, Utopija
Hobbes, Leviathan
Locke, Dvije rasprave o vladi
Montesquieu, Duh zakona
Rousseau, Društveni ugovor
Kant, Politički spisi
Hegel, Osnovne crte filozofije prava
Mill , O slobodi, O predstavničkoj vladi
Marx, Filozofsko-politički spisi (izbor)
Enciklopedija političke misli
Additional reading
Arendt, Vita activa
Foucault, Nadziranje i kažnjavanje
Hinsley, Suverenitet
Hirschman, A.O., Strasti i interesi
Maritain, Čovjek i država
Ortega y Gasset, Pobuna masa
Rawls,O liberalizmu i pravednosti
Volkmann-Schluck, Politička filozofija Instructor: Prof.Žarko Puhovski
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Course title: Theory of knowledge (Epistemology)
ECTS credits: 5 (lecture course), 4 (seminar)
Language: Croatian
Duration: 1 term (4 hours per week)
Status: Compulsory (lectures), elective (seminar)
Teaching and learning methods: Lectures with discussion (4 hours per week; seminar 4 hours
per week)
Prerequisition: 5 term
Methods of assessment: Oral examination; one (at least) paper both in lecture course and
in seminar (if elected)
Description: The compulsory course consists of lectures (4 hours per week)
acccomapnied by discussion on primary literature to the course
whereby acquaintance with various aspects of traditional
(Platonist and/or Aristotelian), modern (post-Cartesian) and
contemporary epistemology should be provided both in
systematic and historical perspective. Special attention is being
paid to social and semiological aspects conserning both
acquisition and constitution of knowledge as well as
semiological models of knowledge theories which have largely
been neglected in the traditional approach to the subject. In the
con-current seminar (elective course, 4 hours per week,
preferably for advanced students) various special issues in
different and competing contemporary theories (both “analytic”
and “continental”) of knowledge, cognition, science and
rational discourse are being lerned and discussed. Aditionally,
in both course types the curriculum is oriented towards cross-
relationships between epistemology and other philosophical
disciplines such as philosophy of language, conceptions of
rationality and ideology, and discourse analysis.
Objectives: To provide a relatively complete, profound, and
interdisciplinary acquaintance with topics of cognition,
knowledge, and science in a variety of conceptions (both expert
and non-expert). A further important aim is to motivate and to
enable students to autonomous research, application, and
criticism in different domains of life.
Instructor: Prof. Borislav Mikuli ć
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TITLE OF THE SUBJECT: Social Philosophy
ECTS: 5 credit points
LANGUAGE: Croatian
DURATION: 2 semesters, 2 hours per week or, alternatively, 1 semester, 4 hours per week
STATUS: obligatory – lectures, and optional - seminar
FORM OF TEACHING: Lectures 2 semesters, 2 hours per week (Social Philosophy I and Social
Philosophy II) or, alternatively, 1 semester, 4 hours per week
CONDITIONS: The 3rd semester or later
EXAMS: oral; seminar: submitted paper
DESCRIPTION:
The thesis that human beings are interdependent is expressed by numerous philosophers, particularly
by modern ones. The social philosophy reflects upon preconditions and consequences of society, its
definitions and its difference toward the state, as it has been announced by Hobbes, elaborated by later
contractualists, first of all by English and French thinkers of the Enlightment, as well as in different
philosophical schools and orientations till nowadays.
Natural right tradition, contractualism, socio-philosophical consequences of human nature and
natural law, history as based on a collective human activity, freedom conceived as a social category,
scientific-technological civilization, state and society, language and society, psyche and society, are
some examples to be considered and analyzed during lectures and seminars.
GOALS: The goal of teaching social philosophy is to introduce students into presuppositions and
consequences of modern understanding of society and of a man as a social being.
This goal will be realized by lectures on selected topics of social philosophy and by relative
seminars (reading and analyzing selected texts, students have an obligation to submit papers).
The social philosophy is addressed first to students of philosophy but it can also be chosen as
an optional subject by students of other studying programs.
SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY: The Reading List
Obligatory
A) The selection of writings by modern thinkers who reflect the concept of society,
particularly by J. Locke, D. Hume, B. de Spinoza, Ch.L.S. de Montesquieu, J.J. Rousseau, I. Kant,
J.G. Fichte, G.W.F. Hegel, L. Feuerbach, K. Marx, J. Bent ham, J.S. Mill, M. Weber;
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B) The selection of writings (minimally 3 books) by at least three 20th century thinkers who do
reflect the concept of society in a philosophical way – f.e. Th.W. Adorno, H. Arendt, M. Foucault,
H.G. Gadamer, J. Habermas, M. Horkheimer, A. Macintyre, J. Maritain, H. Marcuse, M. Merleau-
Ponty, L. Mumford, K. Popper, J. Rawls, R. Rorty, Ch. Taylor, Michaela Walzer.
Instructor: Prof. Gvozden Flego
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Course title: Ontology
ECTS credits: 5 (lectures), 4 (seminar)
Language: Croatian
Duration: 2 terms
Status: compulsory (lectures), elective (seminar)
Teaching and learning methods: Lectures 2 hours per week, seminar 2 hours per week
Prerequisites: 5. term
Methods of assessment: oral examination, paper in seminar
Description: Fundamental concepts of ontology and metaphysics, genesis
and development of concepts; ontology in relation with other
philosophical disciplines (and the problematic nature of such
divisions : arguing in favor of overcoming the fragmentation of
philosophy and keeping up the connection with other forms of
human knowledge and thought); being, beings, essences,
substance, quality, quantity, identity and difference, truth.
Objectives: Advanced students of philosophy get an opportunity to
introduce order into their conceptual framework dealing with
fundamental question of philosophy as a whole.
Instructor: Prof. Lino Veljak
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Course title: Aesthetics
ECTS : 5 (lecture), 5 (seminar)
Language: Croatian
Duration: 1 term
Status: Compulsory (lectures), elective(seminar)
Teaching and learning methods: lectures, seminar
Prerequisites: third semester
Methods of assessment: oral examination, paper in seminars
Course description: The chair offers compulsory lectures, elective lectures, introductory lectures for
other departments and seminars. Lectures conclude in oral examinations , seminars require papers.
The topics for the compulsory lectures are chosen so as to facilitate the mastering of the subject: the
classical works of Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Schelling, Hegel, Marx and Nietzsche, aesthetic
reflexions of the 2oth century, the development of the autonomous systems of art and attempts of its
deconstruction , the differentation between concepts of art and the beautiful, the differences in the
status of art in different cultures etc. Elective lectures or targeted at students with a strong interest in
aesthetics. New courses are offered every academic year.
Objective: To present the history of the philosophical reflection on beauty and the arts, the
development of aesthetics as a philosophical discipline and a survey of contemporary theories of art
and the beautiful, including the aesthetic of audio-visual media, in order to enable the students to gain
conceptual mastery over the subject.
Compulsory reading
Platon, Država, Ion, Gozba, Fedar (2)
Aristotel, O pjesničkom umijeću
Kant, Kritika moći suđenja
Schelling, Filozofija umjetnosti ili Hegel, Estetika I
Heidegger, O biti umjetnosti ili W.Benjamin, Estetički ogledi
Croce, Estetika ili N.Hartmann, Estetika ili Th.W.Adorno, Estetička teorija
A.C.Danto, Preobražaj svakidašnjega
Additional reading
D.Hume, O mjerilu ukusa,
S.Kierkeggard, Ili-ili
F.Nietzsche, Rođenje tragedije
H.G.Gadamer, Istina i metoda
G.Lukacs, Duša i oblici
Oxford Reader in Aesthetics (ed.Feagin&Maynard)
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Theorien der Kunst (hrsg.D.Henrich, W.Iser)
D.Grlić, Estetika I-IV
N.Čačinovič, Estetika
Instructors: Prof. Nadežda Čačinovič/Ass.Prof.Gordana Škorić
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Subject: ETHICS Course: Ethics
ECTS credits: 5 (lectures); 4 (seminar) Language: Croatian Duration: 1 term Status: compulsory (lectures); elective (seminar) Teaching and
Learning methods: lectures (4 hours per week); seminar (4 hours per week) Prerequisites: 3rd term (for the students of philosophy) Exam: oral examination; paper in seminar Course description: The course is taught in cyclic lectures, in which the historical and thematic approaches are interwined in such a way that,
at places where key ethics categories are formed, the
historical overview is extended by thematic sets of problems.
The course is divided into 7 cycles: 1. Introduction (Types of
ethical reflection; Differentiation between ethics and morals;
Etymology of names; Period setting possibilities); 2. Ancient
ethics; 3. Early Christian and medieval ethics; 4. Modern
ethics up to Kant; 5. Kant's Copernican revolution in ethics;
6. German idealism – followers and critics; 7. Ethical
orientations/schools in newer and contemporary philosophy.
In the framework of the seminar, through the reading and
interpretation, as well as the presentation of the students'
works, there will be investigated some crucial ethical books
or the texts which are crucial for some important ethical
problems.
Course objectives: The aim of this course is to provide, through the lectures, a historical overview of the rising of theories in ethics, and to acqaint students with the framework of argumentation and dialogical antithesis, in which the fundamental ethical concepts and standpoints were articulated. The aim of the seminar is to develop the ability of the students to think and to discuss the ethical problems. Instructors: Prof. Ante Čović/Ass. Hrvoje Jurić
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Course title: Logic
ECTS credits: 5
Language: Croatian
Duration: 1 term
Status: Elective
Teaching and learning methods: Lectures 4 hours per week
Prerequisites: -
Exam: written/oral
Description: Origins of modern logic: traditional logic – Greek and mediaeval, logical algebra,
logicism, axiomatic method, set theory, metalogic. Formal theories: first- and second-order predicate
logic, equality and equivalence relations, Peano's arithmetic. Foundations of model theory:
completeness, compactness, categoricity. Calculability and decidability: algorithms, Turing's
machines, recursive functions, Church's and Goedel's theorems. The extensions of classical logic:
modal logics. Alternative approaches: many-valued logics, mathematical intuitionism, substructural
logics.
Objectives: Overview of main directions of development of traditional and modern logic. Providing
students with knowledge necessary to follow contemporary discussions in logic and related
philosophical disciplines, such as philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language and philosophy
of science. In particular, students should acquire competence to teach elementary logic in secondary
schools.
Instructors: Professor Goran Švob/Ass. Davor Lauc
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Course title: Seminar in logic
ECTS credits: 4
Language: Croatian
Duration: 1 term
Status: Elective
Teaching and learning methods: Lectures 4 hours per week
Prerequisites: -
Exam: written
Description: Selected topics in contemporary symbolic and philosophical logic such as: theories of
calculability, Goedel's incompleteness theorem, proof theory, type theory and higher-order logic,
Frege and modern logic, Wittgenstein and contemporary logic, logic and philosophy of language, non-
classical logics and modal logic.
Objectives: Providing a more detailed overview of selected topics in modern logic. Enabling students
to follow actively contemporary discussions in logic and related disciplines.
Course title: Philosophy of language
ECTS credits: 5
Language: Croatian
Duration: 1 term
Status: Elective
Teaching and learning methods: Lectures 4 hours per week
Prerequisites: -
Exam: written
Description: Beginnings of contemporary philosophy of language in Frege's works. Philosophy of
language and theories of meaning. Frege's theory of sense and reference. Russell's theory of
descriptions and the theory of logical types. Tarski's semantic theory of truth. Logical truth and
analyticity. Early and late Wittgenstein. Philosophy of ordinary language. Theories of linguistic acts.
Notion of rule following. Quine's doctrine of radical translation. Davidson's theory of meaning. Causal
theory of reference. Modalities and essentialism.
Objectives: Introducing students to basic problems and schools in the philosophy of language,
especially its modern forms in analytic tradition. Enabling students to follow actively contemporary
discussions in philosophy of language and related disciplines.
Instructors: Prof. Goran Švob/Asst. Davor Lauc
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Subject: Philosophical Anthropology
Name of the course: Anthropology and Hermeneutics
ECTS: 5 points
Language: Croatian
Course duration: 1 semester
Compulsory/ Elective course: elective
Hours per week: 2 hours of lecture and 2 hours of seminar classes (2 + 2)
Entry requirements: Course is open to students of Philosophy (after they have completed the required
Philosophical anthropology course) and to students of Anthropology beyond their first year of study.
Exam: Students are required to attend class meetings and to participate in seminar discussions. They
are also required to turn in essay assignments, or to present an assignment orally in class, and also to
take the final oral exam.
Course description: An introductory overview of the historical development of hermeneutics.
Phenomenology and hermeneutics as the methods of philosophical understanding of man. The
influence of Lebensphilosophie (philosophy of life) on hermeneutics and anthropology (Dilthey). The
main part of the course is the elaboration and criticism of Heidegger's, Plessner's and Gadamer's
philosophy, with special reference to the problems of philosophical anthropology and hermeneutics.
Heidegger's hermeneutics of Dasein: existentials and categories, authentic and inauthentic existence,
temporality and finitude of Dasein, Care, Death (being-unto-death) and the problem of the Self.
Heidegger's criticism of the idea of anthropology. Establishing hermeneutics as Plessner's
philosophical anthropology: man and stages of the organic, excentric positionality, laws of
anthropology. Historicality of understanding, language and hermeneutical experience (Gadamer).
Contemporary theories (Habermas, Apel, Ricoeur). Interpretation of the Other from the point of view
of philosophical and cultural anthropology. Limits of understanding and the problem of defining man.
Course objectives: Systematization of knowledge and advanced study on philosophy of man.
Introduce students to contemporary philosophical discussions on man (interdisciplinary approach).
Help students develop observation skills and critical approach to the problem. Encourage students to
formulate and express their thoughts through class discussions, dialogues and oral paper presentation.
Develop students' competency in critical thinking and encourage them to activly participate in
professional philosophic life (methodological and professional competency).
Exam literature (primary sources):
Dilthey, The Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences
Heidegger, Being and Time
Plessner, The Stages of the Organic and Man
Gadamer, Truth and Method
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Secondary sources:
Schleiermacher, Hermeneutika
Dilthey, Die Entstehung der Hermeneutik
Heidegger, Kraj filozofije i zadaća mišljenja
Heidegger, Kant i problem metafizike
Heidegger, Unterwegs zur Sprache
Apel, Transformacija filozofije
Habermas, «Der Universalitätsanspruch der Hermeneutik», u: Kultur und Kritik
Habermas, Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns
Ricoeur, Le conflit des interprétations
Ricoeur, Živa metafora
Gadamer, Hörmann, Eggers, Učenje i razumijevanje govora
Gadamer, Čitanka
Frank, Kazivo i nekazivo
Derrida, Marges de la philosophie
Lévinas, Smrt i vrijeme
Husserl, Kriza europskih znanosti i transcendentalna fenomenologija
Fink, Osnovni fenomeni ljudskog postojanja
Merleau-Ponty, Fenomenologija percepcije
Marcus – Fischer, Antropologija kao kritika kulture
Grondin, Smisao za hermeneutiku
Hufnagel, Uvod u hermeneutiku
Burger, Subjekt i subjektivnost
Instructors: Professor Hotimir Burger / Assistant Mladen Planinc
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Subject: Philosophical Anthropology
Course: Basic Texts of Philosophical Anthropology (seminars)
ECTS: 3
Language: Croatian
Duration: 1semester
Status: Elective course
Teaching methods: 2 h seminar per week
Perequisities: Inscription in third semester for students of philosophy or read aut off certain text for
other students.
Examination: paper or colloquy Course description: Kant’s philosophy and anthropology; Hegel’s philosophy of spirit and
anthropology; Marx’s anthropology and theory of history; life, spirit and universe by M.Scheler;
‘eccentric positionality’ and conditio humana by H.Plessner: symbolic form and anthropology by
E.Cassirer; the nature of man and the institutions by A.Gehlen; critical theory, phenomenology,
hermeneutics and anthropology and other themes. The elaboration of these themes is an intensified
interpretation of important works in the philosophical tradition and in philosophical anthropology,
always with a transparent relation to the basic concepts and problems of anthropology.
Course objectives: By means of analysis of the classical and contemporary works of philosophy and
philosophical anthropology and of the discussion of their methodological, terminological and
theoretical aspects, the source, the constitution and the basic concepts of the philosophical
anthropology and its relation to other philosophical disciplines (ethics, aesthetics, ontology, social
philosophy etc.) and to the empirical anthropology will be demonstrated. In such a way the student
acquires special knowledges and competence for philosophical analysis of the text and for an
argumentative and competent discussion as the condition of philosophical thinking.
Instructors: Professor Hotimir Burger and Assist. Mladen Planinc
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Course title: Philosophy of language
ECTS credits: 5
Language: Croatian
Duration: 1 term
Status: Elective
Teaching and learning methods: Lectures 4 hours per week
Prerequisites: -
Exam: written
Description: Beginnings of contemporary philosophy of language in Frege's works. Philosophy of
language and theories of meaning. Frege's theory of sense and reference. Russell's theory of
descriptions and the theory of logical types. Tarski's semantic theory of truth. Logical truth and
analyticity. Early and late Wittgenstein. Philosophy of ordinary language. Theories of linguistic acts.
Notion of rule following. Quine's doctrine of radical translation. Davidson's theory of meaning. Causal
theory of reference. Modalities and essentialism.
Objectives: Introducing students to basic problems and schools in the philosophy of language,
especially its modern forms in analytic tradition. Enabling students to follow actively contemporary
discussions in philosophy of language and related disciplines.
Instructor: Prof.Goran Švob/dr.D.Lauc
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Course title: Philosophy of History
ECTS credits: 4
Language: Croatian
Duration: 2 terms. Status: elective
Teaching and learning methods: Lectures 2 hours per week
Prerequisites: 3. term
Methods of assessment: oral examination
Description: The concept of history ( the difference between history and
historiography and other terminological distinctions). The
genealogy of philosophical reflections on history. Theory of
cycles and of progress. Minerva’s owl. Antithesis and antinomy
in history. The past- our time- modernity. Transcendence,
immanence, secularization. The relation between the
philosophy of history, philosophy as a whole and social/
humanistic sciences.
Objectives: Leading students towards autonomous research and
interdisciplinarian approach in the framework of the problems
of understanding history.
Instructor: Prof. Lino Veljak
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Subject: Bioethics
Course: Bioethics
ECTS credits: 5
Language: Croatian
Duration: 1 term
Status: elective
Teaching and
learning methods: lectures (2 hours per week); seminar (2 hours per week)
Prerequisites: /
Exam: oral examination (after the written paper)
Course description: The course is divided into 6 thematic cycles: 1. Beginnings of
bioethics; 2. Developmental phases of bioethics; 3.
Methodological specificum and nature of bioethics; 4.
Objectives of bioethics; 5. Bioethical institutionalization
and education; 6. Bioethics and Philosophy. The lectures
are combined with the seminars, in which some bioethical
discussions, as well as through the workshops which are
studies).
Course objectives: The aim of this course is to provide the inter-disciplinary
and pluri-perspective approach to moral questions which
raise from the scientific-technological development of
contemporary civilization and are connected with the
category of life in general. The specific aim of the course is to
develop the ability of students to think and to discuss the
raising bioethical problems, as well as to develop their
orientation regarding key-dilemmas of contemporary
humankind.
Instructors: Prof. Ante Čović/Ass. Hrvoje Jurić
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Course title: Philosophy of Science
ECTS credits: 5
Language: Croatian
Duration: 1 term
Status: Elective
Teaching and learning methods: Lectures 4 hours per week
Prerequisites: -
Exam: written/oral
Description: Short historical introduction to philosophy of science: Aristotel, Galileo, F.Bacon,
Newton, Locke, Hume, J.S.Mill, Positivism, Post-positivism. Selected problems of the philosophy of
science: scientific explanations, causality and natural laws, the structure of scientific theories, the
demarcation problem, Development of science; Natural sciences and social sciences and humanities.
Objectives: The objectives of the course are to provide students with an understanding of fundamental
concepts and problems of contemporary philosophy of science.
Instructor: Ass. Davor Lauc
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Course title: Introduction to Metaphysics
ECTS credits: 5 (lectures), 4 (seminar)
Language: Croatian
Duration:: 2 terms
Status: compulsory (lectures), elective (seminar)
Teaching and learning methods: Lectures 2 hours per week, seminar 2 hours per week
Prerequisites: 5. term
Methods of assessment: oral examination, paper in seminar
Description: The fundamental notions of ontology and metaphysics, the
beginning and development of the basic conceptions, difference
between monism and dualism, the most important metaphysicians
in the history of philosophy, their actuality, the most important
interpretations, the question: Is the philosophy without
metaphysics possible?
Objectives: Advanced students of philosophy get an opportunity to introduce
order into their conceptual framework dealing with fundamental
question of the theoretical philosophy and especially of the
metaphysics.
Instructor: Prof. Lino Veljak
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Course title: Indian Philosophy
ECTS: 4
Language: Croatian
Duration: 1 term (4 hours per week)
Status: elective
Teaching and learning methods: lectures (2 hours per week) with seminar (2 hours per week)
Prerequsites: 3rd term.
Methods of assesment: Oral examination, one (at least) seminar paper
Description The course consists of lectures providing a selection of
theoretical and practical topics to get acquaintance with the
history of main philosophical themes issuing from the archaic
and classical schools of Indian philosophy (both orthodox and
nâstika) as well as from their modern versions. In the seminar
part of the course, the work is strongly oriented to the close
study of selected philosophical texts with an emphasis on
methodological problems of comparativism relating both to the
history of ideas and to contemporary theories.
Objectives: To give a relatively complete introduction into diverse topics of
Indian philosophy and methods of research as well as to enable
students, especially on the advanced level, to develope an inter-
disciplinary founded approach to non-western traditions of
thought.
Instructor: Prof. Borislav Mikuli ć
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Contemporary Aesthetics ( elective)
ECTS: 5
Language: Croatian
Duration: 4 hours weekly, one term
Status: Elective
Teaching and learning methods: lecture
Prerequisites: third term
Method of assessment: oral examination
Description: Elective course for students with a special interest in aesthetics. Contemporary theories
are analysed connecting philosophy with visual theory, theory of literature, media studies etc
Objective: Creating a dependable frame of reference of the contemporary theoretical landscape
Searle, J. M., "Minds, brains, and programs", Behavioural and Brain Sciences 3 (1980), 417-457.
Dennett, D., "Intentional systems" at http://www.cs.umu.se/kurser/TDBC12/HT99/dennett2.html
Dennett, D., Kinds of Minds: Towards an Understanding of Consciousness, [Ch. 1 "What Kinds of
Minds Are There?", p. 1-24]
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Subject: ETHICS – GENERAL SUBJECT Course: Ethics ECTS credits: 5 Language: Croatian Duration: 1 term Status: elective (for the students which are not studying philosophy) Teaching and
learning methods: lectures (2 hours per week); seminar (2 hours per week) Prerequisites: / Exam: oral or written examination (after the written paper) Course description: The course is taught mostly by the thematic approach and the lectures are combined with the reading and interpretation of some texts, as well as with the workshops, in which the students are focused on some ethical problems. Even though the historical overview of ethical theories is provided, focused are mostly the authors and texts, in which the ethics is co-related with other disciplines, for example pedagogics (moral education), psychology (psychology of moral) and sociology (sociology of moral).
Course objectives: The aim of this course is to provide the orientational Historical overview of the rising of theories in ethics, and to acquaint students with the framework of argumentation and dialogical antithesis, in which the fundamental ethical concepts and standpoints were articulated, especially through the inter-relation between ethics and other disciplines and problematic fields.
Instructors: Prof. Ante Čović/Ass. Hrvoje Jurić
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Subject: Aesthetics (general)
ECTS : 3, 5 (with consultations)
Language : Croatian
Duration: 1 term, 2 hours weekly
Status: compulsory
Teaching and learning methods: lecture
Prerequisites. fifth term
Method of assessment: oral examination
Description: the course offers an introduction into aesthetics in order to enable students to deal with
the philosophical dimension in the history of different approaches to the arts and the beautiful as well
as to help them deal with the contemporary situation in the arts.