FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY
ERASMUS+ Faculty Coordinator: Prof. Sonya Karabelyova, ,
DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY
Master Program Philosophy Taught in English
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PHILOSOPHY OF INTERCULTURAL RELATIONS / English / winter / 5 / 60 / Prof. PlamenMakariev
The basic problem, which is discussed in this course is the relation between universalist and particularist norms of social and cultural life. The alternatives of liberal universalism are considered in two dimensions: along the line of the “community – society” relations, and along the line of underestimating vs. exaggerating the importance of cultural differences. These two matters “meet” in the last themes of the program, which refer to some very “hot” issues of the coexistence of ethnic, as well as religious communities in our times.
PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: SYSTEMATIC APPROACH / English / winter / 5 / 60 / Prof. Dr. Habil. Valery Dinev
The course aims at discussing the widespread view in contemporary Western culture that if philosophy really wishes to contribute to the resolving the most urgent problems of humanity it should concentrate on anthropological issues. We will consider the growing philosophical anthropology in terms of new teachings like new biologism, biopolitics, functional asymmetry of brain, realm of unconscious; as well as from the point of view of traditional philosophical topics.
PHILOSOPHICAL METHOD / English / winter / 5 / 60 / Prof. Dr. habil. Aneta Karageorgieva
Time and again the problems of methodology become peak-important for philosophy. One reason for this is that the concept of method is inherent to the very concept of philosophy as such. This course offers two optional tracks of investigation: history of philosophical method in Antiquity and analysis of contemporary methods. Both begin with explication of the concept of method, then taking up a different direction. Reading anew Plato, Aristotle and the Sceptics within the first one throws light on many up-to-date issues, like the relationship between logic and mathematics, the role of linguistic and social conventions in knowledge and reasoning, the importance of memory knowledge and the consequences of relativism.
SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY / English / winter / 5 / 60 / Prof. Dr. habil. Maria Dimitrova
This course aims at discussing the constitution of social reality.Various forms of solidarity and alienation will be taken into account as well as the main types of interconnection. The main objective of the course is to reach as a result the definition of sociality being specificity of everything human.
PHILOSOPHY OF THE SUBJECT(ITY)’S ACTION / English / winter / 5 / 60 / Assoc. Prof. Dr. VesselinDafov
Students will study some of the leading ideas on subjectivity in the history of philosophy. A research on recent and actual problems by means of the Activity and Subjectivity methodology is expected to be done at the end of the course. As an end of the course is supposed an investigation on such topics like Subjectity and Life, Subjectity and Identity, Subjectity and Sociality, Subjectity and Creativity, Project(ivity) to be provided.
PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: MAIN TRENDS AND THINKERS / English / summer / 5 / 60 / Prof. Valery Dinev, Dr. Habil.
Theterm “man” isunderstoodas “a member of humanrace: a humanbeing”,` themeaningthatappears to correspondmostfully to theknownetymology of theword.
EXISTENTIAL DIALECTICS / English / summer / 5 / 60 / Prof. Maria Dimitrova Dr. Habil.
Thepurpose of thiscourseis to introducestudents to themostinfluentialtrendinthe 20thcenturyEuropeanphilosophy, i.e. ExistentialPhenomenology. Thework of followingphilosopherswillbestudied: Heidegger, Sartre,Camus, Jaspers, Buber, Levinas.
MEANING AND TRUTH / English / summer / 5 / 60 / Prof. Dr. habil. Aneta Karageorgieva
The nature of meaning and the terms in which it is to be analysed have interested philosophers of the last 100 very intensively. What is the ultimate meaning bearer – words, sentences or persons, and why does such a close relation between meaning and truth exist? Are our semantic intuitions more basic than those about truth, and how are we doing things by words? These and other questions of contemporary philosophy of language are the main content of the course.