| Course title | Seminar on Professional Disputation 2 |
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| Course code | KFI/SOD2 |
| Organizational form of instruction | Seminary |
| Level of course | Bachelor |
| Year of study | not specified |
| Semester | Summer |
| Number of ECTS credits | 4 |
| Language of instruction | Czech, English |
| Status of course | unspecified |
| Form of instruction | Face-to-face |
| Work placements | This is not an internship |
| Recommended optional programme components | None |
| Course availability | The course is available to visiting students |
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| Course content |
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Odd years: 1. Theoretical basis 1.1 The notion of argumentation - semantic level (entailment) - syntactic level (syntactic proof) - psychological level - epistemic level 1.2 Related notions: - justification - epistemic commitment (epistemic duty) - rationality 1.3 Practical drill of argumentative techniques: - justifying a thesis - distinguishing premises and conclusions in an argument - identification of tacit premises - objecting - Socratic dialogue - namítání - sókratovský rozhovor Even years: The following elements will be combined as suitable: 1. Exposition of common types of fallacies and detection practice: - ad hominem in various senses and variants - circular reasoning, begging the question - propositional fallacies - equivocation fallacies - red herring - relevance fallacies - other types of informal fallacies 2. Practical analysis of real-life arguments proposed by students.
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| Learning activities and teaching methods |
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| Learning outcomes |
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Odd years: Understand what argumentation is and and build practical proficiency in basic argumentative techniques. Even years: Proficiency in recognizing common types of fallacies. Practicing of analysis and critique of real-life argumentations.
Odd years: - understanding the distinction between syntactic, semantic, psychological and epistemic aspects of argumentation. - understanding the purpose of argumentation - practical proficiency in the following argumentative techniques: - justifying a thesis - distinguishing the premises and the conclusions of an argument - identification of tacit premises - objecting - Socratic dialogue Even years: - capability of identifying common types of fallacies - proficiency in practical analysis of real-life argumentations |
| Prerequisites |
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unspecified
KFI/KSOD1 ----- or ----- KFI/SOD1 |
| Assessment methods and criteria |
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Student performance assessment, Systematic student observation
Active participation (80%), accomplishing the assigned (home)work, tests etc. |
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| Study plans that include the course |
| Faculty | Study plan (Version) | Category of Branch/Specialization | Recommended semester |
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