Zapraszamy serdecznie na wykłady prowadzone przez prof. Jeffreya Wilsona.

“Aristotle's Metaphysics”
2 ECTS, intensive course that will be completed between the beginning of the semester and Easter (in person).

Students shall engage the thought of Aristotle as he responds to and builds upon the thought of earlier philosophers, including but not limited to Plato – his teacher, Heraclitus, Parmenides, and Democritus. Perennial philosophical questions shall be addressed throughout the course, including but limited to “the One and the Many”, “Universal and Particular”, “the Eternal and the Temporal”, “Necessity and Contingency”, “Essence and Existence”, and “the nature of Nature”.

“St. John Henry Cardinal Newman's Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent as a course on modern Catholic epistemology”
2 ECTS, the course will start in person in February. From April to June it will only be available online.

St. John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801–1890) was steeped in the British empirical tradition, especially in the thought of John Locke (1632–1704) David Hume (1711–1776). Students shall learn the decisive blow that Hume struck against realist metaphysics and epistemology and how Newman responded both to Locke and Hume from within the British empirical tradition. Because Newman works within the British empirical tradition, it shall be seen that his is a truly modern epistemology, rather than one merely occurring in Modernity that by-passes the challenges peculiar to Modernity. Newman’s response establishes a metaphysics of the imagination, thereby creating a Catholic alternative to Aristotelian-Thomistic metaphysics of the intellect.

Kursy przeznaczone są dla studentów studiów magisterskich i studentów programu Erasmus na UPJPII, zapraszamy również osoby z poza naszej uczelni.