| Academic year: | 2009-2010 |
| Course code module | FLWFM00400 |
| Semester: | 2nd semester |
| Credits: | 6 |
| Study load (hours) | 168 |
| Theory (hours): | 30,00 |
| Practice/Exercises(hours): | |
| Other (hours): | |
| Part-time program: | 1 |
| Instructor(s) | Geert Van Eekert
Guido Vanheeswijck
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| Language of instruction: | Dutch |
| Semester exam information: | exam in the 2nd semester |
| Contract restriction information: | |
1. Prerequisites
*Algemene competenties
degree of Bachelor philosophy
*Sequentiality
None
2. Objectives (expected learning outcomes)
- the studens must be able to recognize and to understand the most important forms of modern and contemporary forms of critique of metaphysics
3. Course content
This year (2010-2010) we focus upon the place of metaphysics in continental philosophy during the 'interbellum'. Point of departure is the controversy between Heidegger and Cassirer on the status of metaphysics in the beginning of the thirties ('Davoser Disputation'). Against this backdrop we study texts of Cassirer (Philosophy of symbolic forms) and Heidegger (Being and Time, Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics).
4. Teaching method
Direct contact: LecturesSeminars (possible question and answer sessions)
Personal work: Assignments - individualAssignments - in group
5. Assessment method
Written assignment: Without oral presentation
6. Compulsory reading – study material
Reader including the main philosophical texts that will be discussed during the lectures. This reader will be published by Universitas
7. Recommended reading - study material
G. Abel & G. Salaquarda (Hg.), Krisis der Metaphysik, Walter de Gruyter, 1989
K. Baynes, J. Bohman & Th. McCarthy, After Philosophy. End or Transformation, MIT, 1987
M. Friedman, A parting of the Ways. Carnap, Cassirer, and Heidegger, Open Court, 2000
V. Hösle (Hg.), Metaphysik. Herausforderungen und Möglichkeiten, Frommann-Holzboog, 2002
P. Kondylis, Die neuzeitliche Metaphysikkritik, Klett-Cotta, 1990, hoofdstuk IV (p. 361-562)
H. Redner, The Ends of Philosophy. An essay in the sociology of philosophy and rationality, Croom Helm, 1986, hoofdstuk I (p. 31-136)
H. Schmidinger, Metaphysik.
Ein Grundkurs
, Verlag W. Kohlhammer, 2000
H. Schnädelbach, Philosophie in Deutschland 1831-1933, Suhrkamp, 1983
H. De Vriese, G. Van Eekert, G. Vanheeswijck & K. Verrycken (eds.), 1830-1848: The End of Metaphysics as a Transformation of Culture, Peeters, 2003
H. De Vriese, G. Van Eekert, G. Vanheeswijck & K. Verrycken De koningin onttroond. De opkomst van de moderne cultuur en het einde van de metafysica, Pelckmans, 2005
8. Tutoring