Philosophical Problems

Pre-requisites: None.

Course objectives: Philosophical problems are often formulated within very different directions, and the answers were given within the opposing philosophical viewpoints. This course will help students develop a sense of bridging the differences between these directions and viewpoints.

Course description: The course should provide students with the ability to deal with some limited number of philosophical problems – the way in which they were formulated and the way in which they were being solved during some key periods in history of philosophy. The focus is on Wilfrid Sellars' view of abstract singular terms and the phenomenological view of the abstraction process.

Learning Outcomes: By the end of the course students will acquire skill to deal with different problems immanently.

Literature/Reading:

• Kit Fine, The Limits of Abstraction, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2002.
• M. Anđelković, “Truth, Falsity and Borderline Cases” (with Timothy Williamson), Philosophical Topics 28, No 1, Spring, 2000, pp. 211-244.
• M. Anđelković, “Williamson on Bivalence”, Acta Analytica 23, 1999, pp. 27-33.
• Miroslava Trajkovski, Misao, značenje, apstrahovanje, Institut za filozofiju – Univerzitet u Beogradu Filozofski fakultet, Beograd, 2015, str. 170-222.
• Rastko Jovanović, Selars i platonizam, Univerzitet u Beogradu. Filozofski fakultet, Beograd, 2015.