Michael Hampe: Catalogue data in Autumn Semester 2022 |  |
| Name | Prof. Dr. Michael Hampe |
| Field | Philosophie |
| Address | Professur für Philosophie ETH Zürich, CLW C 2 Clausiusstrasse 49 8092 Zürich SWITZERLAND |
| Telephone | +41 44 632 30 40 |
| Fax | +41 44 632 15 61 |
| hampe@phil.gess.ethz.ch | |
| Department | Humanities, Social and Political Sciences |
| Relationship | Full Professor |
| Number | Title | ECTS | Hours | Lecturers | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 851-0176-00L | Progress | 3 credits | 2V | M. Hampe | |
| Abstract | Science and technology are projects that are usually described as “progressing". Earlier findings and inventions are used to create new ones. Later researchers stand on the "shoulders of giants" of those who worked before them. But is this a development toward truth and for the better? | ||||
| Learning objective | Acquire knowledge of basic concepts of progress and their evaluation options. | ||||
| Content | The U.S. philosopher Chauncey Wright wrote in 1865 in his critique of the famous 19th century popular philosopher Herbert Spencer: "Progress is a grand idea, – Universal Progress is a still grander idea. It strikes the key note of modern civilization. Moral idealism is the religion of our times. What the ideas of God, the One, and the All, the Infinite First cause, were to an earlier civilization, such are Progress and Universal Progress to the modern world, – a reflex of its moral ideas and feelings." (Chauncey Wright, The Evolutionary Philosophy…. Vol. 1. 2000, S. 69). The lecture will give an introduction into the different concepts of progress and try to evaluate them against the background of the current epistemological situation. | ||||
| 851-0426-00L | Paul Feyerabend's Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge | 3 credits | 2S | M. Hagner, M. Hampe | |
| Abstract | Paul K. Feyerabend characterized his magnum opus “Against method” as an “anarchistic theory of knowledge”. In this book, he crusaded against analytical philosophy of science and critical rationalism. Feyerabend’s advocating for a variety of forms of knowledge has been debated heatedly, but is still relevant for contextualizing the role of science in society. | ||||
| Learning objective | It is the aim of this seminar to become acquainted with the epistemology of Paul Feyerabend and to analyse its relevance for our time. | ||||
| Content | We will start this seminar with a close reading of Paul Feyerabends Wider den Methodenzwang (https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/paul-feyerabend-wider-den-methodenzwang-t-9783518281970) (acquisition and reading of this book are required) and continue with the analysis of selected chapters from Feyerabend’s other monographs in order to unveil the connections between epistemology, science, freedom and Enlightenment for the present age. | ||||
| 862-0004-15L | Research Colloquium Philosophy for Master Students and PhD (HS 2022)  For MAGPW and PhD students of D-GESS only. | 2 credits | 1K | R. Wagner, M. Hampe, N. Mazouz, L. Wingert | |
| Abstract | Ph.D. students, post docs, members of staff, and senior colleagues from other philosophy departments will report on their work in progress. Furthermore, promissing new philosophical articles and parts of new philosophical books will be studied. | ||||
| Learning objective | Ideas and arguments dealing with systematic problems especially in epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, and the philosophy of mind will be scrutinized and elaborated. | ||||