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Selected
problems of contemporary
metaphysics
Thursday 14:00 - 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: February 21
Codes:
BMA-LOTD17-207.04
BMI-LOTD17-207E.04
BBN-FIL-402_02
BMA-FILD-402_02
Topics:
- Time
- Modality,
determinism--indeterminism,
probability
- Free will
- Causation
- Properties
- Identity, similarity,
persistence
- Laws of nature
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)
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Credit requirements:
- oral exam from the
material of the lectures
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PhD students, in addition,
must write a 5-10 page
critical essay (in English)
in connection with the main
theses I am proposing in the
lecture course
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TTK-s és IK-s
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Filozófia
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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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