Topics in Metaphysics
0
2024-2025
01013458
Área Científica do Menor
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Elective
1st Cycle Studies
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)
NoSyllabus
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.
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.