Topics in Metaphysics

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

- Theoretical presentations by the teacher;

 - Presentations by the students;

- Analysis and commentary of text;

- Discussion on texts and problems.

Learning Outcomes

a) Oral and written skills in selected concepts and topics in Metaphysics;

b) Direct knowledge of some main texts of the Metaphysics tradition and its critique;

c) Skills of text interpretation;

d) Initiation into methods and practices of scientific research in Metaphysics  and History of Philosophy.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

a) Being as being: advanced concepts about what Metaphysics is, its history, its critique and limits and contemporary transformations;

b) Selected problems and topics in Metaphysics to be announced for each  edition of the curricular unity;

c) Selected texts on Metaphysics and its critique.

Head Lecturer(s)

Diogo Falcão Ferrer

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

M. F. Blanc, Introdução à Ontologia, Instituto Piaget, Lisboa, 2011.

F. Châtelet (dir.), História da Filosofia,  4 vols., trad. A. Ribeiro, L. Xavier e M. Agostinho, Círculo de Leitores, Lisboa, 1986.

M. Heidegger, Introdução à Metafísica, trad. M. Matos e B. Sylla, Instituto Piaget, Lisboa, 1997.

M. J. Loux, Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction, Routledge, London/New York. 1998.

F. Nef, Qu'est-ce que la métaphysique, Gallimard, Paris, 2004.