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Lecturer(s)
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Exner Milan, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
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Bartoš Vít, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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The course introduces students to the important issues of European thinking, focused on the interpretation of the whole world. Critical thinking and the nature of scientific theories is demonstrated on cosmological models. 1. Establishment of critical thinking as the negation of mythology in ancient Greece 2. Whole and part of being: the cosmological framework in time before Plato 3. The idea of infinity in ancient Greece 4. Geocentric model: Aristotelian-Ptolemaic model and its innovations 5. Renaissance turnover: Cusanus, Copernicus, Bruno 6. Beginning of modern science: Brahe, Kepler, Galilei 7. Fundamentals of Newtonian physics and theology 8. Situation in physics before Einstein's entrance 9. Special and the General Theory of Relativity 10. Einstein's cosmological model and its critics 11. Unsteady universes and their models 12. Chaotic inflationary universe, quantum space and pluriversum 13. Reserve, credit
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monological explanation (lecture, presentation,briefing)
- Class attendance
- 28 hours per semester
- Preparation for credit
- 30 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The course demonstrates the principles of critical thinking on the interpretation of the whole of being from mythological times to contemporary views of the universe. He considers methods of verifying the truth of opinions to be meaningful only if they are subject to the overall paradigm of modern science, which is the evolutionary paradigm.
The students will acknowledge themselves with the informations acording to the goal and the matter of the course.
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Prerequisites
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Preconditions are frased in the annotation of the course and in the curriculum of the studying programme.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Written exam, Student's performance analysis
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Recommended literature
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BARNES, J., HARE, R. M., CHADWICK, H. Zakladatelé myšlení : Platón, Aristotelés, Aurelius Augustinu. Praha: Svoboda, 1994. ISBN 80-205-0363-3..
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Barow, John D. Teorie ničeho.
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Barrow J. D. Teorie všeho.
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Brian Greene. Elegantní vesmír..
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Grygar, J. Vesmír jaký je. Panorama Praha, 1997.
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HAWKING Stephen W. Stručná historie času.
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KOYRÉ, Alexandre. Od uzavřeného světa k nekonečnému vesmíru, Praha: Vyšehrad 2004, ISBN80-7021-586-0..
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Milan Exner. Předplatónské modely vesmíru..
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TRETERA, I. Nástin dějin evropského myšlení: od Thaléta k Rousseauovi. 5. vyd. Praha: Paseka, 2006.. ISBN 80-7185-819-6.
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