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House MD and Philosophy

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Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025

Course director

Number of hours/semester

lectures: 12 hours

practices: 0 hours

seminars: 0 hours

total of: 12 hours

Subject data

  • Code of subject: OXFHPH-z-T
  • 1 kredit
  • Dentistry
  • Optional modul
  • spring
Prerequisites:

-

Course headcount limitations

min. 5 – max. 35

Available as Campus course for . Campus-karok: BTK

Topic

During the course, we will discuss fundamental and core problems of medical ethics, philosophy, logic, psychology and methodology with the help of the popular TV show, “House, MD”. At each of the lectures, we will watch one episode from the show (40 minutes), and then we discuss the given topics of the week. The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the basic notions and questions of ethics and philosophy in an understandable and useful manner; furthermore, students shall be able at the end of the course to recognize philosophical and ethical issues in everyday life situations and should be able to identify scientific problems through the lenses of their common experience of the patients. Knowledge dissemination and domestication strategies will be dealt with from an interdisciplinary perspective (utilizing the methodological credo of “House MD”), thus the course might be attractive to students with different backgrounds and level of education.

Lectures

  • 1. Introduction, description of the course, administration - Tuboly Ádám Tamás
  • 2. Why House and how philosophy is applied to medicine? - Tuboly Ádám Tamás
  • 3. House and the meaning of life - Tuboly Ádám Tamás
  • 4. House and the meaning of life - Tuboly Ádám Tamás
  • 5. House and Nietzsche: Superman, Übermensch and the boundaries of society - Tuboly Ádám Tamás
  • 6. House and Nietzsche: Superman, Übermensch and the boundaries of society - Tuboly Ádám Tamás
  • 7. House and moral luck - Tuboly Ádám Tamás
  • 8. House and moral luck - Tuboly Ádám Tamás
  • 9. House, Sherlock Holmes and scientific-logical explanations - Tuboly Ádám Tamás
  • 10. House, Sherlock Holmes and scientific-logical explanations - Tuboly Ádám Tamás
  • 11. House and the challenges of religion: can science or religion be falsified? - Tuboly Ádám Tamás
  • 12. House and the challenges of religion: can science or religion be falsified? - Tuboly Ádám Tamás

Practices

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Henry Jacoby (ed.), House and Philosophy: Everybody Lies. Chicago: Open Court, 2009. New Jersey: Wiley.

Literature developed by the Department

Notes

Recommended literature

Barry Louwer (ed.), 30 sec philosophies: The 50 Most Thought-Provoking Philosophies. London: Icon books.

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

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Mid-term exams

Active participation at the lectures, one written exam at the end of the course, based on the lecture notes.

Making up for missed classes

Possible by individual appointment.

Exam topics/questions

http://itdweb.hu/

Examiners

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

Rólunk