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| SOS3018 | Contemporary Philosophy | 4+0+0 | ECTS:6 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Compulsory | | Department | DEPARTMENT of SOCIOLOGY | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 4 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Doç. Dr. Ferhat ONUR | | Co-Lecturer | | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | To examine the changes and new approaches observed in the field of philosophy in the 20th century and their effects on the 21st century. |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | Can describe the developmental line of contemporary philosophical thought. | | | | LO - 2 : | Classify the areas of contemporary philosophy | | | | LO - 3 : | Present contemporary philosophers and ideas. | | | | LO - 4 : | Make general evaluation of contemporary philosophy. | | | | LO - 5 : | Can compare contemporary philosophical approach. | | | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), LO : Learning Outcome | | |
| Analytical philosophy, pragmatism and phenomenology, which are the main philosophical movements of the 20th century, are explained within the framework of the views of the philosophers representing these movements. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Introduction
From the Scientific Revolution to Empiricist Philosophy | | | Week 2 | Neo-Aristotelians?Spinoza and Leibniz
German Idealism and Hegel | | | Week 3 | Marx, Nietzsche and the Foundations of Existentialism | | | Week 4 | Pragmatism
Analytical Philosophy
Phenomenology | | | Week 5 | Physics, Positivism, and Early Wittgenstein
Emergence and Whitehead | | | Week 6 | Dewey's American Naturalism
Heidegger's Being and Time | | | Week 7 | Existentialism and the Frankfurt School
Heidegger's Turn against Humanism | | | Week 8 | Culture, Hermeneutics, and Structuralism | | | Week 9 | Midterm Exam | | | Week 10 | Wittgenstein's Turn to Ordinary Language
Quine and the End of Positivism | | | Week 11 | New Philosophies of Science | | | Week 12 | Derrida's Deconstruction of Philosophy
Postmodernsim | | | Week 13 | Rorty and the End of Philosophy | | | Week 14 | Rediscovering the Premodern
Pragmatic Realism?Reforming the Modern | | | Week 15 | The Reemergence of Emergence | | | Week 16 | Philosophy in the 21st Century | | | |
| 1 | Cahoone, Lawrence. 2010; Modern Intellectual Tradition: From Descartes to Derrida, The Great Courses, Chantilly. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | | 1 | 50 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | | 1 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 4 | 14 | 56 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 5 | 14 | 70 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 10 | 1 | 10 | | Arasınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 12 | 1 | 12 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Diğer 1 | 14 | 3 | 42 | | Total work load | | | 192 |
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