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COURSE INTRODUCTION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

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Course Name
Code
Semester
Theory
(hour/week)
Application/Lab
(hour/week)
Local Credits
ECTS
Fall
Prerequisites
None
Course Language
Course Type
Required
Course Level
-
Mode of Delivery -
Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course
Course Coordinator -
Course Lecturer(s)
Assistant(s) -
Course Objectives
Learning Outcomes The students who succeeded in this course;
  • will be able to understand and use basic concepts of logic, epistemology, ethics, and political philosophy.
  • will be able to acquire and sharpen critical reasoning and writing skills.
  • will be able to develop skills necessary for the close reading and analysis of texts in the humanities and the social sciences.
  • will be able to evaluate arguments in terms of their validity and the truth of their premises.
  • will be able to distinguish between consequentialist (utilitarian), deontological, and virtue ethical types of evaluation for human actions.
  • will be able to distinguish between descriptive and prescriptive propositions, and apply that distinction to the problem of justification of political authority.
  • will be able to familiarize themselves with classical and contemporary philosophical and literary texts.
Course Description

 



Course Category

 Core Courses
X
Major Area Courses
Supportive Courses
Media and Managment Skills Courses
Transferable Skill Courses

 

WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES

Week Subjects Required Materials
1 Presentation and overview of the course; discussion of how to begin philosophy by acknowledging that we have already begun. J. L. Borgess, “The Perpetual Race of Achilles and the Tortoise,” pp. 43 47
2 What is an argument? The concepts of validity, truth and soundness. R. Fogelin, Understanding Arguments, pp 45 53
3 Argumentative performatives, assurance, guarding, discounting; fallacies of clarity: vagueness and equivocation. Fogelin, pp. 53 61; pp. 339 377
4 Fallacies of vacuity: circular reasoning, questionbegging; fallacies of relevance: ad hominem, straw man, false cause, appeals to authority. Fogelin, pp. 477 405
5 Types of justification; types of refutation: by parallel reasoning, counterexamples, reductio ad absurdum Fogelin, pp. 405 433
6 MIDTERM I
7 Introduction to epistemology R. Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy, “Meditation 1”; Shakespeare, Othello,the Moor of Venice, pp.65 121
8 Skepticism, sources of knowledge, methodic doubt, certainty as epistemic criterion, the cogito as first principle and model of Descartes, Meditations 2 and 3; Othello, pp. 121 151
9 Evaluation of the proofs for the existence of God, and the application of the arguments introduced in week 8 to concrete problems; tragedy as epistemology and epistemology as tragedy: cognitive errors or moral faults? Descartes, Meditation 4; Othello, pp. 152 197
10 Philosophy and science: the thinking subject as embodied being subject to the laws of nature. FIRST PAPER DUE Janet Richards, Human Nature After Darwin, pp. 4 25 FIRST PAPER DUE
11 Evolutionary biology as philosophical challenge and answer to the question “What is a rational animal?” Richards, pp. 25 51
12 Determinism, freedom of the will, morality as scientific problem and science as a moral problem. Richards, pp. 126 154; Plato, Republic, pp. 21 26; Nussbaum, pp. “Nonrelative Virtues” 199 226; Euripides, Medea, pp. 17 30
13 Consequentialism (Utilitarianism) and Deontology: arguments and criticisms. Kant, pp. 274 281; Bennett, pp. 294 306; Bentham, pp. 306 312; Williams pp. 339 345
14 Tragedy as limitcase for the evaluation of ethical theories; moral health; how to understand the proper relationship between reason and desire. Nussbaum, The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics, pp. 439 484; Medea, pp. 30 63
15 Reason as social practice; rational animal and the polis. Aristotle, Politics, Bk. 1 1986 2000; Locke, 249 253; Bentham and Mill, 270 274; Hobbes, pp. 86 110 SECOND PAPER DUE
16 Final
Course Notes/Textbooks Must readings mentioned in this information sheet.
Suggested Readings/Materials None

 

EVALUATION SYSTEM

Semester Activities Number Weigthing
Participation
16
10
Laboratory / Application
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments
4
40
Presentation / Jury
Project
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exam
Midterm
1
20
Final Exam
1
30
Total

Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade
70
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade
30
Total

ECTS / WORKLOAD TABLE

Semester Activities Number Duration (Hours) Workload
Course Hours
(Including exam week: 16 x total hours)
16
3
48
Laboratory / Application Hours
(Including exam week: 16 x total hours)
16
Study Hours Out of Class
16
3
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments
4
9
Presentation / Jury
Project
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exam
Midterms
1
20
Final Exams
1
22
    Total
174

 

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS RELATIONSHIP

#
 Program Competencies/Outcomes
* Contribution Level
1
2
3
4
5
1 To be able to scientifically examine concepts and ideas in the field of sociology; to be able to interpret and evaluate data. X
2 To be able to define classical and contemporary theories in sociology; to be able to identify the differences and similarities among those theories and to be able to evaluate them. X
3 To be able to critically use the knowledge acquired in the field of sociology X
4 To be able to plan and conduct, individually or as a member of a team, an entire sociological research process with the knowledge of methodological requirements of the field.
5 To be able to identify and evaluate local, regional and global issues and problems. X
6 To be able to share their ideas and solutions supplemented by qualitative and quantitative data in written and oral forms. X
7 To be able to make use of other disciplines related to sociology and to have core knowledge related to those disciplines. X
8 To be able to follow developments in sociology and to be able to communicate with international colleagues in a foreign language. (“European Language Portfolio Global Scale,” Level B1)
9 To be able to use computer software required by the discipline and to possess advancedlevel computing and IT skills. (“European Computer Driving Licence”, Advanced Level)
10 To be able to use a second foreign language at the intermediate level.
11 To have social and scholarly values and ethical principles during the collection and interpretation of data for implementation, publication, dissemination, and maintenance X
12 To acquire life long learning abilities that will enable the socially responsible application of knowledge based on their field of study to their professional and everyday lives. X

*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest

 

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