Kurzus nemzetközi vendég- és részidős hallgatóknak
- Kar
- Bölcsészettudományi Kar
- Szervezet
- BTK Filozófia Intézet
- Kód
- BMI-LOTD17-208E.02
- Cím
- Selected Topics in Contemporary Metaphysics
- Tervezett félév
- Őszi
- ECTS
- 3
- Nyelv
- en
- Oktatás célja
- Topics: Metaphysics and the knowledge of the world Time Modality, determinism--indeterminism, probability Free will Causation Properties Identity, similarity, persistence Laws of nature Records and the slides of the lectures will be available. List of suggested readings John W. Carroll, Ned Markosian: An Introduction to Metaphysics, CUP 2010. E. J. Lowe: A Survey of Metaphysics, OUP 2002 J. Heil:. From an Ontological Point of View. Oxford: Clarendon Press 2003. Norman Swartz: Beyond Experience – Metaphysical Theories and Philosophical Constraints (Second Edition). Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2001. L. E. Szabó: Meaning, Truth, and Physics, In G. Hofer-Szabó, L. Wroński (eds.), Making it Formally Explicit, European Studies in Philosophy of Science 6. (Springer International Publishing, 2017) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-55486-0_9. (Preprint: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/14769/) L. E. Szabó: Mathematical facts in a physicalist ontology, Parallel Processing Letters, 22 (2012) 1240009 (12 pages), DOI: 10.1142/S0129626412400099 [preprint] L. E. Szabó: Formal Systems as Physical Objects: A Physicalist Account of Mathematical Truth, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 17 (2003) pp. 117 – 125 (preprint: PDF) L. E. Szabó: What remains of probability?, in D. Dieks, W. Gonzalez, S. Hartmann, M. Weber, F. Stadler and T. Uebel (eds.), The Present Situation in the Philosophy of Science, Springer, forthcoming. [PDF] L. E. Szabó: Objective probability-like things with and without objective indeterminism, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 38 (2007) 626–634 [Prepirnt (PDF)] L. E. Szabó:The Einstein--Podolsky--Rosen Argument and the Bell Inequalities, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2008) L.E. Szabó: Intrinsic, extrinsic, and the constitutive a priori, Foundations of Physics 50, 555–567 (2020). DOI: 10.1007/s10701-019-00281-z (Open Access: https://rdcu.be/bKxdO) L.E. Szabó: Physicalism without the idols of mathematics. [Preprint], (2021), http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/18901 Credit requirements: oral exam from the material of the lectures PhD students, in addition, must write a 5-10 page critical essay (in English) in connection with the main theses I am proposing in the lecture course