The Philosophy has a long history more than 2500 years from ancient Greece. Throughout its long history, philosophers has examined a wide variety of issues.
For example, even today, there are various "philosophy of X" (X can be any subject), such as philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of biology, philosophy of neurology, philosophy of language, philosophy of law, philosophy of music, philosophy of history, and philosophy of Artificial Intelligence.
In this lecture, we will investigate some specific issues.
The goal of this course is that you will be able to:
1) understand what philosophy is.
2) understand the history of philosophy.
3) formulate more appropriate questions.
philophy, history of philosophy, question, encyclopedia, humanities
Specialist skills | ✔ Intercultural skills | Communication skills | ✔ Critical thinking skills | Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
This class consists of lectures and discussions between instructer and students.
Course schedule | Required learning | |
---|---|---|
Class 1 | Prologue: Overview | Understand the aim of this lecture and class flow. |
Class 2 | What is philosophy? | Understand philosophy. |
Class 3 | Issue: How tha mind and brain are related? | Understand the mind-brain problem. |
Class 4 | Issue: How tha mind and brain are related? | Understand the mind-brain problem. |
Class 5 | Issue: What is literature? | Understand the philosophy of creations. |
Class 6 | Issue: What is literature? | Understand the philosophy of creations. |
Class 7 | Issue: What can we know? | Understand the philosophy of sciences |
Class 8 | Issue: What can we know? | Understand the philosophy of sciences |
Class 9 | Issue: What is play? | Understand the philosophy of play. |
Class 10 | Issue: What is play? | Understand the philosophy of play. |
Class 11 | Issue: What is language? Philosophy of languages | Understand the philosophy of languages. |
Class 12 | Issue: What is language? Philosophy of languages | Understand the philosophy of languages. |
Class 13 | Issue: Can we create Artificial Intelligence? Philosophy of AI | Understand the philosophy of AI. |
Class 14 | Issue: Can we create Artificial Intelligence? Philosophy of AI | Understand the philosophy of AI. |
Class 15 | Epilogue: Review | Review the lecture. |
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
None required.
Course materials are provided during class.
Term-end report (70%), short report (20%), and Contribution to the lecture (comments, question, etc. 10%)
None required.