Ontology

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 basic and intermediate concepts in Ontology;

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

c) Skills of text interpretation;

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

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

a) Being as being: fundamental concepts;

b) The beginning of the ontological research with Plato and Aristotle;

c) Kant’s critique of Metaphysics;

d) Post-Kantian ontology and metaphysics: philosophy as system and the problem of foundations;

e) Transformations and critique in the 20th and 21st Centuries: phenomenology, hermeneutics, critical theory and philosophy of language.

Head Lecturer(s)

Diogo Falcão Ferrer

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

Th. Adorno, Dialéctica Negativa, trad. M. Casanova, Jorge Zahar, Rio de Janeiro, 2009.

Aristóteles, Metafísica, edición trilingue por V. G. Yebra, Gredos, Madrid, 1987.

J. G. Fichte, Fundamentos da Doutrina da Ciência Completa, trad. D. Ferrer, Colibri, Lisboa, 1997.

G. W. F. Hegel, Enciclopédia das Ciências Filosóficas em Epítome, Volume I, trad. A. Morão, Edições 70, Lisboa, 1988.

M. Heidegger, Ser y tiempo, trad. J. E. Rivera C., Trotta, Madrid, 2003.

E. Husserl, Meditações Cartesianas. Conferências de Paris, trad. P. Alves, Cenrro de Filoosofia, Lisboa, 2010.

E. Husserl, A Crise das Ciências Europeias e a Fenomenologia Transcendental. Uma Introdução à Filosofia Fenomenologia, trad. D. Ferrer, Lisboa, 2008.

I. Kant, Crítica da Razão Pura, trad. M. P. Santos e A. Morujão, Gulbenkian, Lisboa, 1989.

Platão, O Sofista.trad. de J Trindade Santos et al.,  Gulbenkian, Lisboa, 2012.