COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY THEORIES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FEL 3005 CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY THEORIES COMPULSORY 4 0 0 4

Offered By

Sociology

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR HAKAN ÇÖREKCIOĞLU

Offered to

Sociology (Evening)
Sociology

Course Objective

It is to teach the main contemporary philosophical currents that represent the anxieties of people because of contemporary life style.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   apprehend the materialist currents that came out against Hegel s philosophy
2   try to understand life philosophers
3   recognize the importance of positivism in contemporary philosophy
4   apprehend the attempts at solving the Twentieth-century crises
5   know the philosophy of language and its pioneers

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The position of our age
2 Positivist current: St. Simon, A. Comte
3 Materialist Current; Strauss, Feuerbach, Marx
4 Life Philosophy; Nietzsche, Dilthey, Bergson
5 20th century philosophy: Phenomenology: Brentano, Husserl
6 Scheler
7 Nikolay Hartman and New Ontology
8 Existentialism: Kierkegard, Heidegger
9 Sartre, Albert Camus
10 Analytical philosophy: Schlick Carnap
11 Popper, Wittgenstein
12 Philosophies of Science: Cangulhiem and Philosophy of Medicine

Recomended or Required Reading

1) Bedia Akarsu,Çağdaş Felsefe Akımları,M.E.B.yay.,Istanbul,1979.
2) Nejat Bozkurt,20.yüzyıl düşünce akımları,Sarmal yay.,1.basım,Istanbul,1995.
3)David West,Kıta Avrupası Felsefesine Giriş,çev.Ahmet Cevizci,Paradigma yay.1.basım.,Istanbul,1998.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

face to face

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

exams

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 16 4 64
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 16 1 16
Midterm 1 6 6
Final 1 12 12
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 98

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.134
LO.2324
LO.3433
LO.43
LO.544