Abstract
The article considers the introduction of the problem of personal identity in the structure of the course of philosophy. The introduction of new material is the attempt to redesign the academic course of philosophy, simultaneously keeping its traditional structure. The problem of personal identity is a topical issue in analytic philosophy. However, it is not much learnt in Ukraine, where academic circles mostly orient to continental philosophy. The paper analyses the subject area of personal identity: its metaphysical status, the nature and conditions of personhood, the possible criteria, and the method of though-experiment. Then, it shows the steps of introducing personal identity in the course of philosophy. The novelty of the article is in the fact that the problem of personal identity is introduced for non-philosophy students for the first time at Ukrainian university course of philosophy.
Highlights
The problem of teaching philosophy at university is always one of the most topical among Ukrainian educators
We have suggested introducing the problem of personal identity in the course of philosophy
The analysis of the problem of personal identity shows that its subject area consists of such aspects: the nature and conditions of personhood, the metaphysical status of personal identity, the criteria of identity, and the method of thought-experiment
Summary
The problem of teaching philosophy at university is always one of the most topical among Ukrainian educators. For the course of philosophy is taught to all students of the bachelor’s programmes in Ukraine, the problems of methodology and syllabus improvement are the most discussed at the departments of philosophy all over Ukraine. This purpose can be achieved if the philosophy teaching meets these requirements: understanding the process of learning as a cognitive process aimed at the development of critical thinking and creativity; considering learning as the comparison of new information with already known; creating a psychologically comfortable environment; organizing the educational process as the acquisition of personal experience; taking into account the uniqueness of each student [7, p. The course of philosophy presupposes the structure when the first part is devoted to the historical development of philosophy and the second one comprises metaphysics, philosophy of mind, theory of knowledge, philosophy of science, social philosophy, philosophy of history, value theory, and philosophical anthropology. We have chosen the problem of personal identity to be introduced in the structure of philosophy course
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