Hacia un marxismo cubano. El Departamento de Filosofía de la Universidad de La Habana en sus primeras etapas (1962-1965).

El Departamento de Filosofía de la Universidad de La Habana fue creado fruto de la Reforma Universitaria (enero de 1962) que introducía la obligatoriedad de enseñar filosofía marxista en todas las carreras universitarias y socializar la teoría científica adoptada por la Revolución cubana. Existiría hasta 1971, año en el que cambió de denominación, programas y profesorado. El artículo arroja luz sobre el proceso de creación del Departamento y la evolución de su visión respecto a la enseñanza y teoría del marxismo-leninismo en sus primeras etapas: desde un marxismo ortodoxo y manualista hacia la búsqueda de un punto de referencia cubano, antiimperialista y tercermundista. A través de fuentes orales y de archivo, el trabajo pretende analizar cómo y por qué nació el Departamento, sus objetivos y fuentes teóricas, y el cambio de perspectiva que experimentó su profesorado desde su creación hasta 1965, así como los principales factores que lo incentivaron. The Philosophy Department of the University of Havana was created as a result of the University Reform (January 1962) that incorporated the obligation to teach Marxist philosophy in all university degree programmes and to socialize the scientific theory adopted by the Cuban Revolution. It would exist until 1971, the year in which it changed its name, programmes, and teaching staff. The article casts light on the formative process of the Department and the evolution of its conception regarding the teaching and theory of Marxism-Leninism in its early stages: from an orthodox and manualist Marxism towards the search for a Cuban, anti-imperialist, and Third-Worldist point of reference. Through oral and archival sources, this work aims to analyse how and why the Department was born, its objectives and theoretical sources, and the change in perspective that its teaching staff experienced from its creation to 1965, as well as the main factors that encouraged it.

A “School Of Clinical Ethics”: Clinical Ethics Education for Clinicians and Philosophy Students

"The presentation intends to present and illustrate an experience of teaching clinical ethics realized with a group of clinicians and philosophy students and held at the Philosophy Department of the University of Trento, Italy (Spring 2013 and Spring 2015). The class was intended to train clinicians and students to the main concepts of clinical ethics and to a specific methodology to approach clinical matters with ethical and philosophical tools. The class offered a space and time of listening, confronting, debating and learning. The opportunity to dialogue and to reflect, starting form clinical cases presented by clinicians and to realize an ethical analysis of them, combining languages and competences, resulted extremely relevant for clinicians, for students involved and for the teachers themselves. It represented – as well – a first and previous step to start some action-research in specific clinical units, as the local Intensive Care Unit, the Transplantation Coordination Unit and the Mountain Medicine and Ethics Lab. "

Foucault’s 1960s Lectures on Sexuality

In this extended review essay we discuss the lectures on sexuality which Foucault delivered in the 1960s, published in a single volume in 2018. The first part of the volume comprises five lectures given at the University of Clermont-Ferrand in 1964 to psychology students. The second part is Foucault’s course ‘The Discourse of Sexuality’, given at the experimental University of Vincennes in 1969 in the philosophy department. We explore both the themes of the lectures, and the important editorial materials provided by Claude-Olivier Doron which situate these themes in relation to recent developments in the history and philosophy of biology, gender and sexuality. These lectures provide some important and surprising additions to Foucault’s more familiar interest in sexuality, with discussion of plant and animal biology, sex differentiation, the question of sexual behaviour, perversion and infantile sexuality.

Robert M. Young's Mind, Brain and Adaptation revisited

Robert Maxwell Young's first book Mind, Brain and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century (1970), written from 1960 to 1965, still merits reading as a study of the naturalization of mind and its relation to social thought in Victorian Britain. I examine the book from two perspectives that give the volume its unique character: first, Young's interest in psychology, which he considered should be used to inform humane professional practices and be the basis of social reform; second, new approaches to the history of scientific ideas. I trace Young's intellectual interests to the Yale Philosophy Department, the Cambridge Department of Experimental Psychology and a new history and philosophy of science community. Although Young changed his political outlook and historiography radically after 1965, he always remained faithful to ideas about thought and practice described in Mind, Brain.

Analytic Theology in the Religious Studies Academy

The book begins with three very brief chapters that collectively introduce the work as a whole. Chapter 3 turns to the academic study of religion. Many contemporary scholars of religion do not regard theology as a genuine form of academic inquiry. Yet contemporary analytic philosophy shows that theology need not confine itself to historicist or empiricist methods in order to count as a genuine form of academic inquiry. The methods of analytic epistemology and metaphysics—which flourish in every philosophy department—are also appropriate tools with which to investigate questions about the divine. Analytic theology draws on these same tools. I outline the argument of Part IV, which considers three ongoing debates within the academic study of religion: naturalism, critique, and normativity.

Philosophy and philosophers in L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University’s life

The article is aimed to analyze the philosophy’s functions, which makes it possible to understand the importance of philosophy discipline in staff training for various spheres of life in society. The authors also show the role of cultural studies in the formation of a student’s personality, the importance historical and philosophical sciences for the development of research skills, the formation of their own worldview and methodological position in science and practice. The article considers well-known philosophers of L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University. The authors describe contribution of such academicians as Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan Zh.M. Abdildin and the Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan, writer Garifolla Esim. The article summarizes the materials relating to teaching, research, social and educational activities of Philosophy Department. They show desire of department to carry out its activities within the mission of L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, the vision and direction of its development. The article summarizes some of the results of the activities of Philosophy Department, operating since the founding of L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University

Exploring BA students’ intercultural awareness and their expectations of translation courses

The aim of the research in this paper is to investigate how the third- and fourth-year BA students of English as a foreign language perceive what they should be provided with in new translation courses that Pale Faculty of Philosophy (Department of English) is introducing, and to explore their perception about the difficulties in the process of gaining the translational competence. The premise is that the students are not sufficiently aware of the translation as a part of intercultural communication, and the cross-cultural elements that it should be focusing on. The survey also relates to on the teaching methods and styles most commonly used in translation courses, the results they are providing, as well as their advantages and disadvantages. The results of the research may serve as a reliable basis for enhancement of the teaching process and the translation competence acquisition process, first and foremost through methodological eclecticism, then raising the awareness of intercultural components in translation and encouraging the communicative approach to teaching, through a positive classroom atmosphere creation. In the end, several points are made on how to raise the awareness of the students in the process of intercultural competence development.

O tema da política no epicurismo

A maioria das pessoas que têm ou tiveram algum contato com a filosofia enquanto disciplina provavelmente já ouviu falar dos jardins de Epicuro e também já ouviu falar que esse era um lugar de convívio entre os epicuristas. No entanto, pouco costuma ser abordado sobre a posição epicurista acerca da política, costumando-se simplesmente afirmar que o epicurismo não tinha uma política, mas simplesmente uma ética. O objetivo desse artigo é apresentar a visão epicurista sobre a política, situando-a no interior da construção filosófica do próprio Epicuro. Para que isso seja feito, todavia, busca-se ainda apontar a posição teórica que Epicuro assume mediante a noção de práxis grega, no intuito de melhor localizar seu posicionamento em relação aos conceitos gregos que direcionam as diferentes construções teóricas acerca da política. O estudo a ser apresentado é parte da elaboração de um trabalho de dissertação em filosofia desenvolvido no instituto de filosofia da UFU com o financiamento da agência de fomento CAPES. Abstract: Most people who have had any formal studies in philosophy probably have heard about Epicurus’s gardens and also probably know that it was a place where epicureans lived together in community. However, little is said about the epicurean standpoint on politics, being simply said that Epicureanism doesn’t have a theory on politics, but only on ethics. The goal of this paper is to present the epicurean view upon politics, by contextualizing it within the philosophy of Epicurus himself. For this to be accomplished, this paper goes through Epicurus’s perspective on greek praxis, in order to point out his outlook on the concepts that guide different philosophical approaches on politics. This study is part of a master’s thesis currently in development in the philosophy department of Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, with the financial support of CAPES, financial agency.

Using a pod as a platform Library-faculty collaboration

Universities tend to have two main tasks, namely research and education. Since 1999 the law that govern higher education in Sweden added a third task for the universities: to relate to their local environment. In other words they had to reach out with their research to the public. At the Philosophy department of the Humanities faculty at Lund University we had a meeting amongst the staff of the administration in 2016. Point of the discussion was the third task and how to reach out with our research. An idea, not too original, arose. What about starting a pod? After a few months of discussion regarding what it should contain, how to record and who should produce we were on our way. Fast forward 3 years we have recorded 30 episodes with philosophers on all levels on varying subjects such as Free Will, Epistemology and the Philosophy of Truth. To date we have over 15000+ listeners all over the world. So why should a librarian engage in such activity? Well, first of all it’s a fantastic way to learn about your subjects and get to know your researchers. For the library it’s also meaningful to package research, sort it and make it available to people all over the world for a very, very long time. This with a minimal effort regarding time and resources.