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Semantic web in the confrontation with Peirce's Semiotics
Řeháčková, Dana ; Fišerová, Michaela (advisor) ; Švantner, Martin (referee)
The Semantic web was created for the conceptualization of data available on the Internet. Through formalized representations that are determined for data sharing and reusing, its vision should be achieved. One of the main aims of the Semantic web is to achieve answers to a searched question which demonstrates high exactness and relevance. The controversy and polysemy of the term "Semantic web" lets us consider the question: "What is the limit of involving semantic aspects provided on Semantic web?" Is it not only the amount of determinations of specific standards that are connected with data itself? The main aim of this thesis is to compare the use of the terminology appearing on the Semantic web in semantic metadiscourse with traditional academic semiotic approaches appearing from pragmatism of Ch. S. Peirce, Ch. W. Morris, and H. P. Grice. The main thesis aim is to clarify the function of semantic web, basically its function and its conception, by comparation academic's semiotics' approaches of pragmaticism Ch. S. Peirce and pragmatism H.P. Grice to help with mapping the problematic area which is connected with using terms such as "meaning," and "understanding," and to explore and make less confused the possibilities of the function of the Semantic web.
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Experimental education in first Czechoslovak republic. At the example of schools in Michle, Nusle, Hostivař
Svobodová, Veronika ; Hnilica, Jiří (advisor) ; Pokorný, Jiří (referee)
The topic of my thesis is experimental schools in Prague Michle, Nusle and Hostivař. It tries to shed light on the circumstances of the birth and end of these schools and to determine their characteristic features. Emphasis is put on the social aspect of experimentation and its close relation to the environment of the First Czechoslovak Republic. Inspiration by modern pedagogical theories is taken into account. The thesis traces the lives of several teachers. As sources were used not only archives but also a series of interviews with graduates of these schools. It aims, on the basis of a comparison of written and oral sources, to give a complex image of experimental education in Czechoslovakia at the time of the First Republic and the Protectorate. Last but not least it tries to answer the question whether experimental schools can contribute to today's education. Keywords: experimental schools, Dalton plan, pragmatism, globalisation, individualisation, differentiation, social studies, coeducation
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Regimes of Rationality / Objectivity between Historical Epistemology and Pragmatism
Krejčová, Kateřina ; Švec, Ondřej (advisor) ; Ritter, Martin (referee)
(in English) The aim of the thesis is to introduce selected approaches to genealogy and changes of the concept of "objectivity". While historical epistemology puts this concept into a context of a particular historical period in which it was born and established itself, and therefore perceives "objectivity" as a novelty, pragmatism sees it as a relic of the discourse of Enlightenment and proposes to replace it with solidarity. Both approaches analyse difficulties of uncritical applications of this term in the history of philosophy and "avant la lettre" science and the assumption that objectivity is just a modification and another name of this concept which is a necessary condition of any knowledge. The thesis is based on texts of Lorraine Daston, Peter Galison, Richard Rorty, Thomas S. Kuhn and Perez Zagorin.
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The definition of religion from the point of view of Ch. S. Pierce's Semiotics
Bromková, Petra ; Karľa, Michal (advisor) ; Švantner, Martin (referee)
The work is focused on delimiting the basic problematic of definition of religion in terms of Charles Sanders Peirce's semiotics. Its objective is througt selected Peirce's texts to interpret Peirce's philosophy of religion, which consists of concept of religion closely connected with Peirce's metaphysics, phaneroscopy, semiotics and agapism. It focuses primarily on Peirce's theory of evolution, the idea of God, the pragmatic way of inference through which one can come to the idea of God, and the relationship between religion and science. I conclude through the interpretation of Ch. S. Peirce's texts that the precise definition of religion can not be pursued in his theory. Even so, the semiotic conception of religion brings a new perspective: the religion could be based on the same principles that govern the science. It can also be understood as a community of people continually striving for truth. This community of people searches in its investigation for answers to the questions about theological ideals. The precondition of faith of individual members of religious communities is an experience of God, who is a perfect and the most general sign and together growth and semiosis in the universe, which people interpret. A believer comes to the worship of God through Musement, a special purposeless...
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The Moral Dimension of Aesthetic Experience in the Pragmatic Pedagogy
Pelzová, Markéta ; Strouhal, Martin (advisor) ; Koťa, Jaroslav (referee)
Concept of pragmatic pedagogy is based on the education by experience, which is essential for an individual's development and for the directing of the individual's abilities. Art provides a form of specific experience based on which you can cultivate cognitive and emotional conditions of value judgments and thus contribute to the moral development of a child. The processes of experiencing, interpreting and evaluating the work of art are based on everyday experience and it relates to both the unique requirements of an individual and the conditions of a certain socio-cultural environment in which he lives.
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Justificatory Status of Perceptual Beliefs
Sedláková, Jana ; Kolman, Vojtěch (advisor) ; Glombíček, Petr (referee)
The main subject of this essay is the problem of the relationship between sensation and perceptual beliefs in terms of their justification. Wilfrid Sellars and his Empiricism & The Philosophie of Mind are central for this essay. Sellars criticizes the theory of fundamentalism and sense data theory by pointing to the Myth of the Given. The perceptual beliefs could not be basic and self-justifying. Such a hierarchical structure is implausible, because we need a lot of other concepts for understanding and forming the perceptual beliefs. The justification has to be placed in the space of reason, when we are able to be responsible for our beliefs, to give reason, to understand the objections and react to them. This debate is not examined only in terms of an isolated, static subject. On the contrary, this subject is embedded to a dynamic social structure. Sellars' position contains three main elements: normativity, intersubjektivity and holism. All these elements will be more closely examined and placed in a broader context. Finally, I will present a critical view on Sellars' position on the basis of three questions: 1, to what extent is plausible the prior character of "It is" talk to "It looks" talk 2, to what extent can we talk about the non - inferential beliefs 3, to what extent is Sellars'...
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Ethical Aspects in the Work of Karel Čapek, esp. in the Dramas Bílá nemoc and Matka
Jíchová, Jana ; Ovečka, Libor (advisor) ; Sládek, Miloš (referee)
The main topic of this thesis is the work of Karel Čapek in actual historical, political and social context with focus on the dramas The White Disease and The Mother. The aim of this paper is to decode the ethical aspects and the heritage to the moral values connected to the deterioration of the whole situation in democratic Europe in between the world wars inside Čapek's work. Keywords Karel Čapek, The Mother, The White Disease, apocryphas, stories, pragmatism, relativism, ethics, philosophy
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MMS aneb Sémiotický potenciál obrazové výpovědi
Janda, Filip ; Šoltys, Otakar (advisor) ; Karľa, Michal (referee)
In the first chapter we will have a look at the transformation and evolution of a photo-camera which on its way to become a medium ofcommunication came a long way from cumbersome glass-plate machinery to the current ubiquitous day-to-day personal digital companion. In the second chapter we will explore the effects of digitisation on the theoretical notion of photography and its position in the present context. Next we will touch on the movement of pragmatism (primarily those versions ofCharles Sanders Peirce and William James) that will allow us to regard our matter as a more holistic interactive problem than dissected pieces of a puzzle; and we will also recapitulate parts of Peirce's theory of signs that are relevant to our cause. The fourth chapter is about the ability of symbolic reasoning - a feature so unique in the world that it is only found in humans and whose principles are very close to the thought-sign system that Peirce devised. In the fifth and last chapter we will see how all that connects to the photographs themselves when they are used in the current digital intention-laden semiotic manner. I
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The Concept of Educator's Role in American Pragmatist Philosophy and Theory of Education
Puk, Michal ; Kopecký, Martin (advisor) ; Mühlpachr, Pavel (referee)
The purpose of this thesis is to analyze and comment general and exercisable findings of the pragmatist approach to education about educator's role. First, the most important ideas of the pragmatist philosophers are summarized. Next, the approach of pragmatism to education is introduced, and an analysis of the pragmatist thoughts regarding educator's role follows. The thesis has found certain similarity between the concept of school teacher's role and that of adult educator in works of Dewey, Lindeman, and Mezirow. The features, that agree or correspond to each other in these concepts, and conversly those that differ, were described. The main ambition of the thesis is, that it identifies important ideas for educator's role and work, and puts them in context. Keywords: pragmatism, education, educator, neopragmatism, theory of education
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The Problem of Individual Freedom in Rogers'Approach to Education
Kavalcová, Jana ; Kopecký, Martin (advisor) ; Mühlpachr, Pavel (referee)
This Bachelor's thesis covers the topic of freedom of an individual in the process of education, which American psychologist Carl Ransom Rogers (1902-1987) elaborated in his work. His person-centered approach, originally introduced as a psychotherapeutic concept, was applied in education later in 1960's and had, above all, an impact on adult education and learning. In the Czech Republic, though, Rogers's work is mainly understood in the context of psychotherapy. Therefore, this Bachelor's thesis addresses the less known area of Rogers's approach as applied in adult education and deals with it from the point of view of the philosophy of education. This thesis understands the related topics of the definition of roles of the educating and the educated, the meaning of personal experience, authenticity, freedom and self-actualization possibilities in the education process as the cornerstones of Rogers's concept of ideal education. Using the findings of the psychology of personality and pragmatic approach to education, the thesis discusses the most important findings and disputable points of Rogers's way of thinking.
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