COURSE UNIT TITLE

: METHOD ISSUES IN PHILOSOPHY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
STR 5013 METHOD ISSUES IN PHILOSOPHY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Strategic Research

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ÖZLEM DUVA KAYA

Offered to

Strategic Research

Course Objective

Discussing and evalutaing methods of philosophyzing by various philosophers and being improved views about philosophical method.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   The student will be able to know various methods of philosophyzing,
2   discuss them,
3   evaluate them,
4   detect the problems rised by these philosophical methods,
5   improve his/her view about philosophical method.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 What is method of philosophyzing
2 Philosophyzing methods: Socrates
3 Philosophyzing methods: Plato
4 Philosophyzing methods: Aristotle
5 Philosophyzing methods: Descartes
6 Philosophyzing methods: Kant
7 Philosophyzing methods: Husserl
8 midterm
9 Philosophyzing methods: evaluating and discussing philosophyzing methods
10 Philosophyzing methods: evaluating and discussing philosophyzing methods
11 Critical approaches to philosophical methodology: Postmodern critique
12 Critical approaches to philosophical methodology: Postmodern critique
13 Critical approaches to philosophical methodology: Feminist critique
14 Critical approaches to philosophical methodology: Feminist critique
15 Evaluation and disscussion
16 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Timothy Williamson, THE PHILOSOPHY OF PHILOSOPHY (New York: Blackwell, 2007)
Platon, DIYALOGLAR 1-2 (Istanbul: Remzi Kitabevi)
Aristoteles, BIRINCI ANALITIKLER (Ankara: Dost Kitabevi)
Descartes, YÖNTEM ÜZERINE KONUŞMA ()
Descartes, FELSEFENIN ILKELERI ()
Husserll, FENOMENOLOJI ÜZERINE BEŞ DERS (Ankara: BilgeSu, 2010)
Kisak, Paul, Philosophical Methodology: " The Methods of Philosophical Inquiry ", (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2016),
Harding, Sandra, Discovering Reality: Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

See "Assessment Methods" and "ECTS Table"

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.50 + FIN* 0.50
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.50 + RST* 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

LO 1-3 will be evaluated by his/her presentation
LO 4-5 will be evaluated by the questions that will be asked in midterm and final exam.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Active participation to the course is required.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

ozlem.duva@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Wednesday 08: 30-12:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
preperation before / after weekly lectures 13 4 52
preperation for presentation 1 25 25
preperation for midterm 1 10 10
preperation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparing assignments 1 25 25
midterm 1 3 3
final exam 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 172

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9
LO.14
LO.24
LO.3
LO.43
LO.5

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