| Academic Unit: |
Law |
| Mode of Delivery: |
Face to face |
| Prerequisites: |
None |
| Language of Instruction: |
Turkish |
| Level of Course Unit: |
Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
Reyda ERGÜN |
| Course Objectives: |
1. To introduce students to philosophical thinking.
2. To help students for understanding the importance of the approach and method for knowledge, and questioning the difference between true and false knowledge.
3. To lead students to think over the issues such as the division of philosophy and science, differences among social sciences.
4. To inform students on the origin and the development of modern sciences.
5. To prepare students to the academic life, by providing them with the understanding about the methods for scientific knowledge. |
| Course Contents: |
In the first part of this course, the students will be introduced to the question of "what is philosophy". Within this context, the course deals with the issues like as the purpose of philosophy, the nature of philosophical knowledge, basic questions of philosophy and its branches. After that, by referring to epistemology (theory of knowledge) we will study the answers given to the questions related to the meaning of knowledge, types of it, the possibility of true knowledge, its criteria and sources. In the second part of this course, by propounding the question "what is science or scientific knowledge" we will move forward to the topic of philosophy of science as a branch of philosophy, which refers to science and scientific knowledge as its subject matters. In this context, following the division and relation between philosophy and science, first of all we will adress the rise of natural sciences and the criteria and the method developed during that period. And then, the influence of the rise of social sciences on approaches in philosophy of science will be examined, particularly by focusing on the discussion about the question if the social sciences fulfill the criteria of being a science. Finally, critical approaches on the criteria developed related to the scientific aspect of social sciences, such as feminism and post-structuralism, will be mentioned. |
| Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit (LO): |
- 1- To have knowledge about the fundamental questions of philosophy in general, of epistemology in particular, and different answers given to these questions in the history of philosophy.
- 2- To gain insight about the division of science and philosophy, and the philosophical comprehension of science.
- 3- To have the experience of approaching an issue by rational techniques of philosophy.
- 4- To acknowledge the differences on the scope and method between natural sciences and social sciences.
- 5- To be able to approach critically to the methods and the results of the science.
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| Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods: |
Lectures and discussions through active participation of students |
| Week | Subjects | Related Preperation |
LO |
| 1 |
What is Philosophy? |
|
1-3 |
| 2 |
Fundamental Questions of Philosophy |
|
1-3 |
| 3 |
The Theory of Knowledge, Part I: What is Knowledge? What are the Types of Knowledge? |
|
1-3 |
| 4 |
The Theory of Knowledge, Part II: The Possibility, Criteria and Sources of True Knowledge |
|
1-3 |
| 5 |
The Relation Between Philosophy and Science |
|
2-3-5 |
| 6 |
What is Science? Methods of Reaching Scientific Knowledge |
|
2-3-5 |
| 7 |
The Rise of Natural Sciences: Views on Criteria of Being Scientific |
|
2-3-4 |
| 8 |
The Method in the Scientific Activity |
|
2-3-4 |
| 9 |
The Influence of the Rise of Social Sciences on the Philosophy of Science |
|
2-3-4 |
| 10 |
The Method in Durkheim's Sociology |
|
2-3-4 |
| 11 |
The Interpretive Method of Weber |
|
2-3-4 |
| 12 |
Falsifiabilitiy as the Criterion of Social Science's Being Scientific: Karl Popper |
|
2-3-4 |
| 13 |
Critical Approaches I: Post-structuralism |
|
2-3-5 |
| 14 |
Critical Approaches II: Feminism |
|
2-3-5 |
At Kadir Has University, a Semester is 14 weeks; The weeks 15 and 16 are reserved for final exams.
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (LO) AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS (PQ)
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PQ1 |
PQ2 |
PQ3 |
PQ4 |
PQ5 |
PQ6 |
PQ7 |
PQ8 |
PQ9 |
PQ10 |
| LO1 |
1 |
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2 |
3 |
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| LO2 |
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1 |
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1 |
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3 |
2 |
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| LO3 |
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1 |
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2 |
3 |
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| LO4 |
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2 |
2 |
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| LO5 |
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2 |
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3 |
1 |
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Contribution: 1 Low, 2 Average, 3 High
