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    GEHU 204 | Course Introduction and Application Information

    Course Name
    Fundamentals of Philosophy
    Code
    Semester
    Theory
    (hour/week)
    Application/Lab
    (hour/week)
    Local Credits
    ECTS
    GEHU 204
    Fall/Spring
    3
    0
    3
    6

    Prerequisites
    None
    Course Language
    English
    Course Type
    Service Course
    Course Level
    First Cycle
    Mode of Delivery -
    Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course -
    National Occupation Classification -
    Course Coordinator -
    Course Lecturer(s)
    Assistant(s) -
    Course Objectives To provide an introduction to the fundamental concepts and argumentative strategies of philosophy through an investigation of the question “What is a rational animal?” in relation to logic, epistemology, ethics, and political philosophy.
    Learning Outcomes
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    Content
    		 PC Sub
    * Contribution Level
    1
    2
    3
    4
    5
    1will be able to understand and use basic concepts of logic, epistemology, ethics, and political philosophy.
    2will be able to acquire and sharpen critical reasoning and writing skills.
    3will be able to develop skills necessary for the close reading and analysis of texts in the humanities and the social sciences.
    4will be able to evaluate arguments in terms of their validity and the truth of their premises.
    5will be able to distinguish between consequentialist (utilitarian), deontological, and virtue ethical types of evaluation for human actions.
    6will be able to distinguish between descriptive and prescriptive propositions, and apply that distinction to the problem of justification of political authority.
    7will be able to familiarize themselves with classical and contemporary philosophical and literary texts.
    Course Description

     



    Course Category

    		Core Courses
    Major Area Courses
    Supportive Courses
    Media and Management Skills Courses
    Transferable Skill Courses

     

    WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES

    Week Subjects Related Preparation Learning Outcome
    1 Presentation and overview of the course; discussion of how to begin philosophy by acknowledging that we have already begun. Overview and discussion of a number of dilemmas and paradoxes.
    2 Plato Apology
    3 What is an argument? The concepts of validity, truth and soundness. Types of justification; types of refutation: by parallel reasoning, counter-examples, reductio ad absurdum. R. Fogelin, Understanding Arguments, pp 45-53 and pp. 405-433.
    4 Fallacies of vacuity: circular reasoning, question-begging; fallacies of relevance: ad hominem, straw man, false cause, appeals to authority Fogelin, pp. 477-405
    5 The Chinese Room Argument: Can Computers think? Discussion of artificial intelligence. Turing, A., 1948, ‘Intelligent Machinery: A Report’, London: National Physical Laboratory; Searle, J., 1980, ‘Minds, Brains and Programs’, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 3: 417–57
    6 MIDTERM
    7 Introduction to epistemology Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy, Meditation 1 and 2
    8 Skepticism, sources of knowledge, methodic doubt, certainty as epistemic criterion, the cogito as first principle and model of Descartes, Meditations 2 (contn’d) and 3
    9 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
    10 Evolutionary biology as philosophical challenge and answer to the question “What is a rational animal?” Richards, pp. 25-51
    11 Determinism, freedom of the will, morality as a scientific problem and science as a moral problem Richards, pp. 126-154
    12 Consequentialism (Utilitarianism) and Deontology: arguments and criticisms Kant, pp. 274-281; Bennett, pp. 294-306; Bentham, pp. 306-312; Williams pp. 339-345; M. L. K. Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail.
    13 Moral Psychology and Perspectivism. Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals, essays I and II.
    14 The responsibilities and the problems of rational thought; the rational animal and the polis. Aristotle, Politics, Bk. 1 1986-2000; Locke, 249-253; Bentham and Mill, 270-274 Levi, If This is a Man.
    15 Week 14 cont’d. SECOND PAPER DUE. Levi, Contn’d.
    16 Final

     

    Course Notes/Textbooks
    Suggested Readings/Materials

     

    EVALUATION SYSTEM

    Semester Activities Number Weighting LO 1 LO 2 LO 3 LO 4 LO 5 LO 6 LO 7
    Participation
    Laboratory / Application
    Field Work
    Quizzes / Studio Critiques
    1
    35
    Portfolio
    Homework / Assignments
    1
    30
    Presentation / Jury
    Project
    Seminar / Workshop
    Oral Exams
    Midterm
    1
    35
    Final Exam
    Total

    Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade
    3
    100
    Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade
    Total

    ECTS / WORKLOAD TABLE

    Semester Activities Number Duration (Hours) Workload
    Theoretical Course Hours
    (Including exam week: 16 x total hours)
    16
    3
    48
    Laboratory / Application Hours
    (Including exam week: '.16.' x total hours)
    16
    0
    Study Hours Out of Class
    16
    3
    48
    Field Work
    0
    Quizzes / Studio Critiques
    1
    0
    Portfolio
    0
    Homework / Assignments
    1
    0
    Presentation / Jury
    0
    Project
    0
    Seminar / Workshop
    0
    Oral Exam
    0
    Midterms
    1
    20
    20
    Final Exam
    22
    0
        Total
    116

     

    COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS RELATIONSHIP


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