Course Details
History and Philosophy of Technology
Academic Year 2024/25
CZ53 course is not part of any programme in the faculty
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
2 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. The concept of "philosophy". Introduction to the philosophical system and terminology. Ancient philosophy, science and technical knowledge.
2. Ancient philosophy. Philosophy in Greece. Beginning of philosophy. Socrates, Platon, Aristotle. Hellenistic philosophy. Survey of technical and structural achievements of the ancient world.
3. Philosophy before Christianity and in the early Christianity period. Medieval perspectives on the world and sciences. Conception of philosophy in the Middle Ages. Thomas Aquinas - pillar of medieval philosophy.
4. The Renaissance revolution - a new way forward? Philosophy of the Rennaissance and Reformation. Humanism. Comenius and Descartes as personalities of Rennaissance philosophy.
5. Rationalism and empiricism and their influence on the philosophic and scientific world. Locke, Hume and Berkeley. The Enlightenment and philosophy - Voltaire and Rousseau.
6. Immanuel Kant´s philosophy. The Critiques of Pure and Practical Reason.
7. The conceptions of science and technology in the modern age. The rice of capitalism and its influence on technological development.
8. The Industrial Revolution. The development of science, technology and civil engineering in the 19th century. Positivism in philosophy.
9. The development of philosophy, society and science in the 20th century. Phenomenology and hermeneutics. Existentialism.
10. Modern philosophy in the 20th century. Directions and personalities. The Vienna Circle. L. Wittgenstein.
11. The increase in technical innovation after World War Two. The role of civil engineering and architecture in technical progress.
12. The scientific-technical revolution and its importance for contemporary period.
13. Modernism and postmodernism in philosophy and the world of science.