COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CONTEMPORARY WESTERN PHILOSOPHICAL TEXTS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FDB 6203 CONTEMPORARY WESTERN PHILOSOPHICAL TEXTS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Philosophy and Religious Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR OSMAN BILEN

Offered to

Philosophy and Religious Sciences

Course Objective

It is aimed for providing to the students sufficient and basic texts that helps them in gaining solid knowledge about famous thinkers and main modern movements in philosophy after Kant.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   The student will comprehend some main movements in philosophy of philology and pragmatism that arisen after Kant
2   The students will learn to analyse some selected texts from existential and phenomenological movements that arisen after Kant
3   The student will learn selected texts from the representatives of hermeneutics philosophy and critiques philosophy

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to modern western philosophy: philosophy after Kant
2 Kant's philosophy of action or Ethics : Critique of Practical Reason
3 Philosophy of History: Hegel
4 Pragmatism I: W. James
5 Pragmatism I: J. Dewey
6 Phenomenology: Husserl
7 Philosophy of Language: Wittgenstein
8 Mid-term Exam
9 Existentialism I Heidegger
10 Existentialism II: Sartre
11 Philosophy of Mind: G. Ryan
12 Philosophical Hermeneutics: Gadamer
13 Criticism : Habermas
14 General review

Recomended or Required Reading

Kant, Critique of Practical Reason
Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logicus,
Heidegger, Being and Time
Gadamer, Truth and Method

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, Research, analysis of text and conception, question and answer, application

Assessment Methods

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


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

The success of student is evaluated based on his or her mid-term and final examinations and his or her attendancy to the lectures and his or her participation on the arguments during the course

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

osman.bilen@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Wednesday: 16:00-17:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 7 91
Preparation for midterm exam 1 7 7
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparing assignments 1 4 4
Preparing presentations 1 4 4
Reading 7 3 21
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 185

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13
LO.1543
LO.2543
LO.3543