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Science and Metaphysics
lecture
course
Thursday 1400 -
15:30 Room 221
(Múzeum krt. 4/i)
(The
lectures will be given
in English. The exam can be
taken in English or
Hungarian.)
First
class: September 20
Codes:
BMA-LOTD17-208.02
BMI-LOTD17-208E
BBN-FIL-401/10
BMA-FILD-401/10
The aim of the course is to
clarify the role of scientific
knowledge (formal sciences
included) in contemporary
metaphysics and in theoretical
philosophy in general; and to
review the most important issues
common to both contemporary
analytical philosophy and
scientific discourse. The main
topics include: events and
entities; time; space;
particulars; universals;
properties; supervenience and
reduction; similarity; identity;
realism/anti-realism; abstract
entities; aprioricity;
necessity; contingency; chance;
laws of nature;
determinism/indeterminism; modal
realism; causality; persistence;
personal identity; free will;
agency.
List of suggested
readings
- John W. Carroll,
Ned Markosian: An
Introduction to
Metaphysics, CUP 2010.
- E.
J. Lowe: A Survey of
Metaphysics, OUP 2002
- J. Heil:.
From an Ontological
Point of View.
Oxford: Clarendon
Press 2003.
- Norman
Swartz: Beyond
Experience –
Metaphysical Theories
and Philosophical
Constraints (Second
Edition). Toronto:
University of Toronto
Press 2001.
- L. E.
Szabó: Meaning,
Truth, and Physics, In G.
Hofer-Szabó, L.
Wroński
(eds.), Making
it Formally Explicit,
European Studies in
Philosophy of Science 6.
(Springer International
Publishing, 2017) DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-55486-0_9.
(Preprint: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/14769/)
- L. E. Szabó:
Mathematical facts in a
physicalist ontology, Parallel
Processing Letters,
22 (2012) 1240009 (12
pages), DOI:
10.1142/S0129626412400099 [preprint]
- L. E. Szabó:
Formal Systems as Physical
Objects: A Physicalist
Account of Mathematical
Truth, International
Studies in the Philosophy
of Science, 17 (2003)
pp. 117 – 125 (preprint: PDF)
- L. E. Szabó: What
remains of probability?, in
D. Dieks, W. Gonzalez, S.
Hartmann, M. Weber, F.
Stadler and T. Uebel (eds.),
The Present
Situation in the
Philosophy of Science,
Springer, forthcoming. [PDF]
- L. E. Szabó:
Objective probability-like
things with and without
objective
indeterminism, Studies
in History and Philosophy
of Modern Physics 38
(2007) 626–634 [Prepirnt
(PDF)]
- L. E. Szabó:The
Einstein--Podolsky--Rosen
Argument and the Bell
Inequalities, Internet
Encyclopedia of
Philosophy
(2008)
Credit requirements:
- oral exam from the
material of the lectures
2018-09-05
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Records and
slides
Exams:
Wednesday 2PM, Room 225
(Dec 19, Jan 2,9,16,23,30)
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Filozófia
minor
TTK-s és IK-s
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Logika és
tudományelmélet MA
szak
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(in
English)
The
curriculum
includes core
courses in
logic and
formal
approaches to
philosophy of
science, and
advanced
optional
courses in
logic,
philosophy of
mathematics,
foundations of
physics,
logical
methods in
linguistics,
philosophy of
language,
metaphysics,
and formal
models in
social
sciences.
Students can
choose a focus
according to
their own
fields of
interests. In
general, the
program is
research
oriented,
aiming to
prepare
students for a
PhD program.
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