| Course title | Theory of institutions |
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| Course code | KFHS/K511 |
| Organizational form of instruction | Lecture + Seminary |
| Level of course | Master |
| Year of study | 2 |
| Semester | Winter |
| Number of ECTS credits | 5 |
| Language of instruction | Czech |
| Status of course | Compulsory |
| Form of instruction | Face-to-face |
| Work placements | This is not an internship |
| Recommended optional programme components | None |
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| Course content |
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1. Introduction. Basics according to Moural (2002), two versions of the core theory. 2. Searle (1995), introduction and Chap. 1. Status function assignment, collective intentionality, constitutive rules. 3. Searle (1995), Chap. 2. Performatives, context, priority of social action over social objects. Money. 4. Searle (1995), Chaps. 4-5. Action-focused version. Modalities, iterativity, codification, deontics, maintenance. 5. Searle (1995), Chap. 3, and Moural (2008). Institutions and language: Searle's exposition, its criticism and the solution of difficulties. 6. Searle (1995), Chap. 6, a Searle, Moural (2001). Enigmatic role of the Background, tension between this chapter and Chaps. 1-5. 7. Smith's objection of 'free-standing Y-terms' and its solution by Moural 2003 and Searle 2010. 8. Action theory in Searle 2001. Prior intention, intention-in-action, carrying-on. 9. Modified exposition in Searle 2010. Critical examination. 10. Institutions and ethics: with use of Tugendhat 2004. 11.Institutions and politics, according to Moural 2020. Institutions as forming trajectories of possible action, and hence the space of human liberty. 12. Conclusions: revision, applications. Institutions and crisis.
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| Learning activities and teaching methods |
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| Learning outcomes |
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The course provides reliable knowledge of the Searlean theory of institutions, which is becoming an important tool for studying the entire problematics of social sciences and humanities. The course is supplemented by a survey of the theory's application in political theory and ethics.
Students are able to prepare their own teaching on the course topics (some 20 hours altogether) and to proceed with further studying primary and secondary literature. |
| Prerequisites |
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None
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| Assessment methods and criteria |
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unspecified
Contents studied on the basis of the Opora (including the required reading, together in the extent of about 260 pages). Oral exam (based on list of exam topics). |
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| Study plans that include the course |
| Faculty | Study plan (Version) | Category of Branch/Specialization | Recommended semester |
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