Program 2023 spring
Doctoral School of Philosophy
University of Pécs
Pécs, 30 January 2023.
Training schedule
2022/23 academic year spring semester
Training supplement to the doctoral school regulations for first and second year students
Online seminars every week.
MS Teams Philosophy Doctoral School interface.
After enrolment, an EHA code is available, you must take the Philosophy II course in Neptune.
Students with an MA in Philosophy or a previous five-year degree will follow an individual course in consultation with their subject leader or the Head of School, for whom the following timetable is indicative. Participation is optional. For doctoral students with a non-philosophy MA, the following programme constitutes the completion of the 30-credit course Philosophy I-II-III-IV. Attendance at seminars is compulsory and forms part of the condition of fulfilment.
Two online seminars, 2x1.5 hours per week:
Tuesday 16h-17.30h
History of philosophy online
Wednesday 16h-17.30h
Philosophy online
Accomplishment
- In-person participation in the online seminar.
- One essay of at least 3 pages, no longer than 5 pages. For the topic of most interest to the student: a summary of the work of an author or period and a justification of why the author or period appealed to them. The essay should be handed in to the teacher of the chosen topic by prior arrangement. The teacher will send an email to the head of the secretariat, Alexandra Haffner-Kiss, confirming completion of the assignment haffner-kiss.alexandra@pte.hu
Submission: any time during the semester, until 31 May.
Once the certificates are received, the semester will be accepted for 30 credits
In addition to the basic philosophical knowledge required for doctoral studies, the courses provide the basic knowledge of the history of philosophy and philosophy required for the complex examination at the end of the fourth semester.
Research seminars
Compulsory for all doctoral students.
MS Teams interface
Wednesday 10h-11.30h
János Boros, Immanuel Kant, Critique of practical reason online seminar.
A continuation of the seminar started in the previous semester. We will ensure a smooth integration of newly admitted students.
New student applications for the borosjanos54@gmail.com at.
Dóra Rippl, Beáta Laki
MindOn seminar
Explore the interaction between sciences by reading current articles and studies.
The date of the seminar will be set by the speakers at a later date.
ripdor@gmail.com laki.beata@gmail.com
Study days
Three Saturdays 1st-4th semester for doctoral students study day. Due to the PTE buildings being closed on Saturdays (energy saving), the lectures will also be held on MS Teams. If the Saturday closure is lifted by 1 April, the study day 1 April will be a no-attendance day. Information will be sent in due time. The detailed programme of the study days can be found at the end of this programme.
Saturday 11 February
Saturday 4 March
Saturday 1 April
A doctoral school conference will be held at the end of the academic year, details of which will be published later.
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Detailed programme
History of philosophy
Tuesday 16h-17.30h
Sources:
https://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html
The internet encyclopaedia articles provided are for information only.
The content of each lesson is determined by the teacher, and the teacher's point of view and the content of his/her lecture may differ from the content of the articles.
Most articles end with a bibliography for further understanding and research.
7 February.
Ancient Philosophy - Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle - János Boros borosjanos54@gmail.com
Miletians:
Thales https://iep.utm.edu/thales/
Anaximandros https://iep.utm.edu/anaximan/
Anaximenes https://iep.utm.edu/anaximen/
Single people:
Pythagoras https://iep.utm.edu/pythagor/
Xenophanes https://iep.utm.edu/xenoph/
Heracleitus https://iep.utm.edu/heraclit/
Eleata:
Parmenides https://iep.utm.edu/parmenid/
Zénó Eleai https://iep.utm.edu/zeno-par/
Pluralists:
Empedocles https://iep.utm.edu/empedocl/
Anaxagoras https://iep.utm.edu/anaxagor/
Democritus https://iep.utm.edu/democrit/
Leukippos https://iep.utm.edu/leucippu/
Sophists:
Protagoras https://iep.utm.edu/protagor/
Gorgias https://iep.utm.edu/gorgias/
Socrates and Plato
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/socrates/
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato/
Aristotle
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle/
14 February.
Late Antique Period -- Early Middle Ages (4th-12th centuries) - Boros János
Saint Augustine (Ausgustinus) https://iep.utm.edu/augustin/
Pseudo Dionysius areopagita https://iep.utm.edu/pseudodi/
Boethius https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/boethius/
Carolingian Renaissance (Alcuin, Rhabanus Maurus)
John Scotus Eriugena https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scottus-eriugena/
The universal debate
Saint Anselm (1033-1109)
The School of Paris and Chartres (10th-13th centuries)
The St. Victor school: Hugo of St. Victor (1096-1141), Richard of St. Victor (1110-1173)
Dualists and Pantheists 13th century: the Albigensians and Cathars, Amalric of Bena (+1207), David of Dinant (1160 - c. 1217)
Islamic and Jewish philosophy: Avicenna (980-1037), Averroes (1126-1198), Moses Maimonides (1135-1204)
21 February.
The heyday of scholasticism - 13th century - János Boros
Guillome d'Auvergne (1190 - 1249)
Robert Grosseteste (1168-1253)
Roger Bacon (1214-1292)
Saint Bonaventure (1221-1274)
Raymundus Lullus (1232-1315)
Saint Albert the Great (1193-1280)
St Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
Latin Averroism: Brabanti Siger (1240-1284)
John Duns Scotus (c. 1265-1308)
28 February.
Late Middle Ages - 14th century - Boros János
William Ockham (c. 1285-1349)
Ockhamites: Jean de Mirecourt (1300-1349), Nicolas d'Autrécourt (1300-1350)
Marsilius of Padua (1275-1342)
Speculative mysticism: Eckhart Mester (1260-1327), Johannes Tauler (1300-1361), Heinrich Suso (1295-1366), Jan van Ruusbroec (1293-1381).
Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
7 March.
Renaissance Philosophy - János Boros
Nicholas Cusanus - Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464)
Natural Philosophy: Paracelsus (1493-1541), Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639), Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655), Jakob Böhme (1575-1624)
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Political philosophy: Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527), St Thomas More (1478-1535), Jean Bodin (1530-1596), Hugo Grotius (1583-1645)
Scolastica: Francisco Suárez (1548-1617)
14 March.
Ethics: animal protection, animal experimentation - Szolcsányi Tibor
New Age
21 March.
René Descartes (1561-1626) - János Boros
28 March.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715)
Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677)
Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716) - János Boros
4 April.
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
John Locke (1632-1704)
Isaac Newton (1643-1727) - Pete Krisztián petekrisz@gmail.com
11 April break
18 April.
George Berkeley (1685-1753) - Pete Krisztián
25 April.
David Hume (1711-1776) - Tamás Demeter tsd2333@gmail.com
May 2.
Enlightenment
French Enlightenment: Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier (1657-1757), Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat baron de (1689-1755), Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau de (1698-1759), Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers (1715-1747), Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de (1714-1780), Helvétius, Claude Adrien (1715-1771).
The encyclopaedia: Diderot, Denis (1713-1784), d'Alambert, Jean le Rond (1717-1783)
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)
German Enlightenment: Christian Thomasius (1655-1728), Christian Wolff (1679-1754), Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786), Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781), Johann Georg Hamann (1730-1788), Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803), Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804-1851)
The Emergence of the History of Philosophy - János Boros
9 May.
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) - János Boros
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Philosophy
Wednesday 16h-17.30h
8 February.
Ethics - János Boros
15 February.
Ethics: euthanasia - Szolcsányi Tibor tibor.szolcsanyi@aok.pte.hu
22 February.
Bioethics and its development today and the history and development of medical ethics - Beáta Laki laki.beata@gmail.com
1 March.
Ethics: gene ethics - Laki Beáta
8 March.
Current topics in bioethics - Beáta Laki
14 March.
Ethics: animal protection, animal experimentation - Szolcsányi Tibor
22 March.
Philosophy of Law: the Philosophy of Human Rights I - György Andrássy mrandrassy@gmail.com
29 March.
Philosophy of Law: the Philosophy of Human Rights II - György Andrássy
April 5.
Introduction to the philosophy of artificial intelligence - Dóra Rippl ripdor@gmail.com
12 April break
19 April.
Applied Philosophy: Fake News - András Ferenc andrasf2011@gmail.com
Understanding and intention.
Wrong vs fake news.
Lying vs telling the truth; being true and believing it to be true.
26 April.
Applied Philosophy: Media Authenticity - András Ferenc
Faith, trust and acceptance.
The limits of objectivity.
Realistic vs true.
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Saturday online study days
MS Teams
11 February - 4 March - 1 April
Saturday 11 February
Presentation of philosophical research, trends
10h45-11h00 Welcome, information - János Boros
11h00-12h30 Philosophy of Science: Carnap, Popper, Kuhn - Ádám Tuboly PhD, habil, research fellow tubolyadamtamas@gmail.com
12h30-12h45 Break
12h45-13h30 Philosophy of Science: values in science - Adam Tuboly
13h30h-13h45 Break
13.45h-14h30 Neurophilosophy Attila Sík, professor
Saturday 4 March
11h00-11h45 Neuroaesthetics - Attila Sík
11h45h-12h00 Break
12h00-13h30 Cognitive Philosophy I. Balázs Kékesi balazs.kekesi@gmail.com
13h30-13h45 Break
13h45-14h30h Cognitive Philosophy II Balázs Kékesi
Saturday 1 April
11h00-12h00 The Nature of Natural Laws - László Kocsis Assistant Professor kocsis-laszlo@gmail.com
12h00-12h15 Break
12h15-13h00h Economic philosophy - Zsolt Nemeskéri, professor nemeskeri.zsolt.dr@gmail.com
13h00-13h15 Break
13h15-14h15 Philosophy of Music - Alpaslan Ertüngealp PhD aertungealp@gmail.com
14h15-14h30 Break
14h30-15h30 The philosophy of causality - László Halász PhD laszlohalasz@me.com
