Sumários
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9 Fevereiro 2023, 16:00 • Rita Sousa
Dualism and concepts of ontological reality in Greek thought. A compared view with hindu thought (W. Doniger O'Flaherty)
The dichotomous principles of Plato's philosophy: A. Lovejoy's criticism of the thisworldliness/thatworldliness divide in Plato and his heirs.
The Greek way of thinking and making war: John Keegan's analysis of Greek dualism and their concepts of war.
Judeo-Christian dualism and platonic thought. The way to the Calcedon. An explanation of the creed, and its ontological deirivatives.
Bibliography:
W. Doniger O'Flaherty, Dreams, illusion and other realities
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8 Fevereiro 2023, 16:00 • Rita Sousa
The notion of "category" in Anthropology and its logico-philosophical foundations.
Boole, Cantor, Gödel - numbers, groups and paradoxes.
Bertrand Russel's critical review of Aristotelian logics and metaphysics, and why it's important for a new grounding of anthropological thought.
The language-mind debate: universality and substance. Categories of thought or categories of language.
Bibliography:
J. Barrow, The Book of Nothing.
W. Folley, Anthropological Linguistics
B. Russel, History of Western Philosophy
E. Benveniste, Catégories de langue, catégories de pensée
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2 Fevereiro 2023, 16:00 • Rita Sousa
Problematisation of accepted anthropological concepts.
From Plato to the doctrine of Chalcedon: the archaeology of the n otions of dualism in Western thought. Counter-examples from non-Chalcedonic Churches.
Mind - Language - Culture
The notion of "category" in Anthropology and its logico-philosophical foundations.
A criticism of the Aristotelian groundings of anthropological categorisations.
The language-mind debate. Where do symbols stand?
A lost possibility: non-rousseauian anthropology in the 18th century: de Sade, Lametrie, Montesquieu, Kant.
Bibliography:
Roy D'Andrade, The Development of Cognitive Anthropology
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1 Fevereiro 2023, 16:00 • Rita Sousa
Presentation of the course's programme, bibliography and system of evaluation.
Introductory discussion of contemporary issues on symbolism and cognition.
The need for an interdisciplinary approach (anthropology vis a vis the neurosciences) and the relevance of a revisited ethnography (Tim Ingold in the Debated Mind, and Maurice Bloch's connectivist views on cultural cognition).
The problems of the Western-centric semantic (and rhetoric) conditioning of anthropological discourses.
The limitations of a materialist approach to cognition. Example:
António Damásio's Self comes to Mind: Constructing the conscious brain
John Searle's critical review of Damasio's Self comes to mind