How do human thoughts and narratives reflect reality, and how has our relation to reality changed within the new forms of culture in the World of media, social media and fake news? What is the relation between nature and culture, or physical reality and social constructs? The course raises these questions and focuses on the analysis of human interaction with reality. In 2016, the Oxford Dictionaries declared “post-truth” to be the word of the year, thus signifying major conceptual shifts in global culture and discourse of truth. The course provides philosophical tools to differentiate between the principles of truth and post-truth, and to analyze and understand complex contemporary relation between individual and reality in terms of power and construction of social reality. How the Education is impacted by these new issues.
The aim of this course is:
- to acquaint the students with different principles of human relation to reality – the classical theory of truth (the correspondence theory of truth), the philosophical principles of construction of social reality and the contemporary post-truth culture;
- to strengthen students' skills to analyse and critically assess the role of language, soft power, education and cultural empowerment and disempowerment in the contemporary World.
This course will be done in English

Alunos de Graduação
Alunos de Pós-Graduação
Pesquisadores
Professores da Educação Básica

Horários e Locais:
02/06/2025 - 09:00 às 12:00 - Sala 103
02/06/2025 - 09:00 às 12:00 - Salas de aula a definir
03/06/2025 - 09:00 às 12:00 - Sala 103
03/06/2025 - 09:00 às 12:00 - Salas de aula a definir
04/06/2025 - 09:00 às 12:00 - Sala 103
04/06/2025 - 09:00 às 12:00 - Salas de aula a definir
09/06/2025 - 09:00 às 12:00 - Sala 103
09/06/2025 - 09:00 às 12:00 - Salas de aula a definir
10/06/2025 - 09:00 às 12:00 - Sala 103
10/06/2025 - 09:00 às 12:00 - Salas de aula a definir

Agnaldo Arroio - EDM
Comissão de Cooperação Nacional e Internacional