Face-to-face , first term, 30 hours of theory and 30 hours of personal work.

First term
Monday from 13:30 to 15:30 at Préfecture P50
Thursday from 10:45 to 12:45 at Préfecture P60

French

FILO1310A - Contemporary Philosophy : theory [1 Q. • 30 Th. • Pond. : 1] Valérie Aucouturier
FILO1310B - Contemporary Philosophy : seminar [1 Q. • 30 Ex. • Pond. : 1] Valérie Aucouturier

This is an advanced course in contemporary philosophy, steaming more specifically from the Wittgensteinian tradition.

For the Bachelor in Philosophy :

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This year's course will focus on current philosophical debates on the issue of identity and self-knowledge. It will be anchored in the classic discussions, stemming from the Cartesian, empiricist and Kantian traditions, to think afresh the question of human individuality and self-consciousness. As Balibar and Descombes show, the question of consciousness is an invention of the moderns, after Descartes. For Locke, conscience is what constitutes a person's identity, as well as his legal and moral responsibility, regardless of his contingent physical identity. But once one no longer thinks it, like Descartes, in the mode of substance, how to specify the principle of individuation of an "I" which would constitute my identity without identifying myself with the human animal that I am? ? Who is this substantivated “I”? What are the modalities of self-knowledge? Are we transparent or opaque to ourselves? What is the object of self-knowledge, if not a Cartesian ego?

During the seminar (compulsory attendance!) We will work on texts by contemporary philosophers (Ludwig Wittgenstein, Elizabeth Anscombe, Gareth Evans) and we will learn how to write a scientific article.

Lecture (30H) and compulsory seminar (30H)

Written examination (50%)
Seminar participation and student homework (50%)

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Recherches philosophiques, Paris, Gallimard, 2001.
A bibliography and a portfolio of readings will also be made available to students.

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