Philosophy and Worldviews FIL-ENG-SM>WorldCw

Methods and tools developed under the Programme ‘Consolidated Development Plan of UPJPII’ co-financed by the European Social Fund, under the Operational Programme Knowledge Education Development number and name of the Priority Axis: III. Higher education for economy and development, Measure number and name: 3.5 Comprehensive programmes of higher education institutions, on the basis of grant agreement no. POWR.03.05.00-00-Z104/17-01, as part of the creation of a new specialty in English "Philosophy in English" at the Faculty of Philosophy, in the course "Scientific and cultural images of the world",are employed in the (currently offered) course "Philosophy and Worldviews

The following topics will be dealt with:
1. Medieval world image (C.S. Lewis): Philosophical vs common world view
2. Contemporary world image (M. Heller): scientific vs philosophical world view
3. Meta-theoretical aspects of the category of the world image (semantic, epistemological, ontological, historiographical, social, cognitive):
– Elements of the world image & their sources (all texts).
– Language as a conveyor or bearer of the world image (all texts).
– Theory of the world image changes & revolutions (esp. Kuhn)
– Nature vs nurture in creating the world image (esp. Barrett)
– The problem of relativism of world images (all texts).
– Is our world image a prison in a Pickwickian sense? (esp. Popper)
– Is the world image truth-bearer or not? (esp. Lewis)
– The status of the category of the world image.
4. the Interplay of common, religious, scientific and philosophical Worldviews. (esp. Liana).