(in Polish) Filozofia w języku angielskim, stacjonarne, drugiego stopnia (DU-FF-A)(in Polish: Filozofia w języku angielskim, stacjonarne, drugiego stopnia) | |
second cycle programme full-time, 2-year studies Language: English | Jump to:
Admission procedures: Opis ogólny
Within second-cycle philosophy studies every student defines individual program of studies by choosing among seminars, proseminars, monographic
lectures and elective courses taught in the Institute of Philosophy. The elective courses offer includes: Philosophy of Culture, Philosophy of Science,
Philosophy of Politics, Social Philosophy, History of Polish Philosophy, Aesthetics, Logical Semiotics and/or Advanced Logic.
Graduates profile:
Philosophy second-cycle program graduate possesses deep and extensive knowledge and abilities in the range of subjects that comprise foundations of
philosophical education. In accordance with personal interests she also knows particular philosophical trends, theories and issues as well as current
debates concerning them. Philosophy graduate is able to analyse and interpret cultural phenomenons and write philosophical papers on her own. She is
also capable of comprehending and translating foreign language papers, can think creatively and critically and has ability to formulate, explain and
ground her own views.
The programme invites applications from students holding at least a BA degree (or equivalent) in any field. |
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Admission Procedure for Academic Year 2011/2012 is broken up into two stages:
In the first stage of the procedure candidates are required to register in the IRK.
The second stage
consists in the oral exam conducted in English. The exam will check candidate’s knowledge and interests as well as his/her predisposition to take up
second-cycle program of studies in the field of philosophy. The exam will be in a form of a discussion about basic issues in ontology, epistemology,
ethics, logic and history of philosophy.
In the exam a candidate can receive from 0 to 100 points.
Facilitations in qualification procedure:
Candidates holding alicencjat degree (comparable to Bachelor of Arts degree) in Philosophy Studies in English receive maximum number
of points (100).
Candidates holding a bachelor degree in philosophy studies in language other than English can be exempted from taking the oral exam if they provide
documentary evidence for their very good command of English (passed exam on a B2 level or equivalent certificate). In such case their admission result
will be based on their BA diploma mark, in accordance with the following conversion rate:
· Polish “bardzo dobry” (very good or equivalent) – 100 points
· Polish “dobry” (good or equivalent) – 90 points
· Polish “dostateczny” (satisfactory or equivalent) – 80 points
Candidate admitted for studies may be obliged by the Programme Board to pass some courses belonging to the first-cycle philosophy programme in order to level possible programme dissimilarities.
ORAL ENTRY EXAM 2011/2012
ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY
1. Plato vs. Aristotle’s concept of Soul.
2. What is the meaning of the Stoic maxim:”one must live in accordance with nature”?
3. Platonic tendencies in Augustin’s thought.
4. Thomas Aquinas’ Christian Aristotelianism.
MODERN PHILOSOPHY
1. The birth of modern science and its impact on philosophy in 16th and 17th centuries. Special attention should be paid to metaphysics and epistemology. Examples of thinkers whose coping with problems of science was especially significant: Descartes, Pascal, Malebranche, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant.
2. Foundationalist and anti-foundationalist tendencies in modern epistemology. Name and analyze typical representatives of both tendencies. Discuss typical examples of foundationalist and anti-foundationalist argumentation.
3. The problem of God and God’s existence in modern philosophy. Changes in the concept of God (Descartes, Spinoza, Pascal, Leibniz). Strategies in arguing for God’s existence (ontological proof and it’s variants, Pascal’s wager, Hume’s and Kant’s critique of philosophical theology).
4. Mind-body problem in modern philosophy. Its solutions in Descartes, Spinoza, Malebranche, Leibniz, Kant (his critique of the “paralogism of pure reason”).
5. Modern accounts of causality. Descartes and Spinoza: causality as a necessary relation between properties (modi) of a single object (substance); Berkeley and Leibniz: denial of any real causal interaction between things in the world; Hume: causality as regularity; Kant: attempt at a restoration of the traditional concept of causality as a necessary relation.
6. Kant’s epistemology and his critique of metaphysics. Synthetic a priori knowledge and its conditions of possibility. Forms of intuition (space and time) and of judgement (categories). Limits of cognition.
7. Moral and political philosophy in the modern period.
CONTEMPORARY CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY
1. Pragmatism and its impact on continental philosophy. Pragmatist critique of cartesian conception of mind and cognition. The idea of semeiotic as a general theory of signs and its philosophical underpinnings. Pragmatist conception of truth and reality and its alleged relativism.
2. Nietzsche. Nietzsche’s theory of Greek tragedy. Nietzsche’s critique of modern culture. Metaphysical background of Nietsche’s philosophy: the idea of eternal recurrence. The genealogy of morals and the role of ressentiment. The idea of a super-man and its possible interpretations.
3. Freud’s psychoanalysis. The concept of consciousness and the idea of the unconscious.
4. Husserl’s phenomenology. The central question of sense and meaning – analogy with Frege’s approach in the philosophy of language. The role of phenomenological reduction. The problem of Husserl’s idealism.
5. Heidegger’s interpretation of phenomenology. The question of Being and its relation to traditional ontology. The role of existential analytic of the Dasein.
6. History, progress, modernization. Critical strategies towards modernization (Frankfurt School, Lyotard, Baudrillard, Foucault, Althusser, Wallerstein). What is history? Critique of historical teleology, continuity and discontinuity of historical process, multiplicity of histories, multiplicity of narratives(Foucault, Deleuze, Bourdieu).
7. Subject, intersubjectivity, desire. Desire as domination and liberation of desire (Feminismes, Focuault, Baudrillard, Debord, Negri). Debate on intersubjectivity (Sartre, Habermass, Levinas). Desire and the constitution of social world (Lacan).
ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY
1. Do you believe that all forms of perception are infallible?
2. When is inductive reasoning more reliable, when is it less reliable?
3. What is necessary, and why ?
4. Name reasons in support of the belief that thought is real.
5. How are sciences different from philosophy ?
EPISTEMOLOGY
1. Falsificationism as a solution to the problem of induction .
2. The nature of knowledge and the Gettier problem.
3. What is the structure of justification?
4. Tarski’s theory of truth: correspondence or deflation?
5. Responses to skepticism.
ETHICS
1. Realism and antirealism in ethics.
2. What is J. S. Mill’s understanding of the relation between utility and justice?
3. Explain two formulae of the categorical imperative.
4. Ethical views of two Polish twenty-century moral philosophers.
5. J. Rawls’s theory of justice.
6. Communitarianism and its proponents.
ONTOLOGY
1. A-theory and B-theory of time.
2. Bundle theory of particulars and substratum theory of particulars.
3. How do things persist in time?
4. Regularity and counterfactual theories of causation.
5. Ontological proof for God’s existence and the property interpretation of existence.
6. LOGIC
7. Typical fallacies (fallacies of clarity, of relevance, of vacuity).
8. Main types of reasoning.
9. Vagueness and Sorites paradox.
10. Semantic and deductive consequence compared.
11. Classical logic, intuitionistic logic, modal logic – rough comparison.