BE_PH_PHM Philosophy for Managers

NEWTON University
winter 2024
Extent and Intensity
2/1. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Ing. Milan Bobek, MSc. (lecturer)
Mgr. Ing. Milan Bobek, MSc. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Jiří Nesiba, LL.M., Ph.D.
Centre for International Programmes – NEWTON University
Timetable
each even Friday 8:00–9:30 PH Učebna 03, each even Friday 9:40–11:10 PH Učebna 03
  • Timetable of Seminar Groups:
BE_PH_PHM/301: each even Thursday 11:20–12:50 PH Učebna 03, M. Bobek
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The course is mainly based on currently applied philosophy and focuses on basic philosophical concepts concerning the methodology of quantitative and qualitative research and personality development. The course serves as a practical introduction to other sciences and develops graduates' critical thinking concerning management's ethical and integrative approach. The course also includes guest-lectures from various fields, presented by experts extending their work to philosophical topics. The presented knowledge framework is supplemented by lectures of experts from psychology, physics, mathematics, natural sciences, social field, and marketing, or management.
Syllabus
  • Course main topics: Introduction to applied philosophy - basic terminology of the philosophy of science and applied philosophy (noetics, gnoseology, epistemology), ontology, ethics, development of methodology of social sciences, general methodology, positivist directions, the philosophical critique of science, paradigm, the critique of contemporary scientific methodology, verification and falsification, scientific hypothesis, theory and law, induction and deduction, a priori and a posteriori cognition, conceptions of idealism and materialism. Observation - sensualism (empiricism), perception, idea, experience, errors of perceptual cognition (perceptual bias), the philosophical methodology I. Logic - rationalism, laws of formal logic, predicate and propositional logic (negation, implications, conjunction), definition, paradoxes of thinking (antinomy, aporia), argumentative delusions, philosophical methodology II. Experiment - types of experiments (thought, controlled, natural, blind), hypothesis, theory, scientific law, quantitative research, basics of statistics (terms, methods), philosophical methodology III. Metacognition - phenomenology, qualitative research, subjective interpretations, risks, and advantages of scientific methodology, philosophical methodology IV. Imagination - semiotics (icons, index, symbol), hermeneutics, linguistics, structuralism, associations, analogy, symbolic thinking, philosophical methodology V. Inspiration - creative thinking, divergence, convergence, talent, genius, philosophical methodology VI. Intuition – the integrity of personality, virtue, bravery, foresight, ethics of personality and society, examples of intuition (mathematical intuition, artistic intuition), philosophical methodology VII. Theory of truth - theory of truth by correspondence (adequacy), coherent, probabilistic, consensual, pragmatic, utilitarian. Gnoseological aspects of knowledge I. - physical senses and personality development. Gnoseological aspects of knowledge II. – the mental side of the personality, inner senses, and personality development. Gnoseological aspects of knowledge III. - spiritual and social meaning, and cognition (thinking, speech, the formation of individuality, individuation, and socialization).
Assessment methods
Ungraded credit: (on campus) minimum attendance at seminars, obtaining a specified minimum number of points for activity at seminars and preparation of continuous assignments; (online) submission of a credit seminar paper meeting the specified requirements Examination: (on campus.) written final test; (online) defence of the seminar paper, written final test; oral examination (implemented by in-person or remote method) in remedial periods
Language of instruction
English
The course is also listed under the following terms winter 2023.
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