COURSE SYLLABUS

ECONOMIC PHILOSOPHY

1	Course Title:	ECONOMIC PHILOSOPHY
2	Course Code:	IKT5116
3	Type of Course:	Optional
4	Level of Course:	Second Cycle
5	Year of Study:	1
6	Semester:	2
7	ECTS Credits Allocated:	4
8	Theoretical (hour/week):	2
9	Practice (hour/week) :	0
10	Laboratory (hour/week) :	0
11	Prerequisites:
12	Recommended optional programme components:	None
13	Language:	Turkish
14	Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
15	Course Coordinator:	Prof. Dr. Ferudun Yılmaz
16	Course Lecturers:
17	Contactinformation of the Course Coordinator:	fyilmaz@uludag.edu.tr, 0224 294 10 87, Uludağ Üniversitesi, İktisat Bölümü, Görükle Kampüsü,Nilüfer/BURSA
18	Website:
19	Objective of the Course:	Although the relationship of philosophy and ecomomics as a social science is wanted to be interrupted, it is impossible for this relationship to be eliminated. The objective of the this course is to analyze the linkage between economics and philosophy and the change in this linkage.
20	Contribution of the Course to Professional Development

Learning Outcomes:

1	The informattion about the linkage between economics and philosophy is obtained. ;
2	The relation between classical economists and philosophy is learned.;
3	Rational choice theory is learned.;
4	Neoclassical economists’ aspects to philosophy are learned.;
5	Positive economics aproach is learned;
6	Some information about the place of physcology in the individuals’ behaviours is obtained. ;
7	The effects of instutional factors over individuals decision process are evaluated. ;
8	Philosophers’ thoughts, interested in Economics and philosophy, are learned;
9	Contemporary and postmodern approaches to economics are analized.;
10	Literature related to economics philosophy is learned and followed;

22	Course Content:

Week	Theoretical	Practical
1	The historical and philosophical foundations of new political economy
2	Economic rationality
3	From imperialism to inspiration: a survey of economics and psychology
4	Taking evolution seriously: What difference does it make for economics?
5	The methodology of scientific research programmes
6	Rhetoric and postmodernism in economics
7	Methodological individualism
8	Philosophical underlabouring in the context of modern economics: aiming at truth and usefulness in the meanest of ways
9	The conflict between formalism and realisticness in modern economics: the case of the new institutional economics
10	Structure and agency in economic analysis: the case of Austrian economics and the material embeddedness of socio-economic life
11	Collective intentionality, complex economic behavior, and valuation
12	Descartes’ legacy: intersubjective reality, intrasubjective theory
13	Information, knowledge and modelling economic agency
14	Conceptions of probability

23	Textbooks, References and/or Other Materials:	John B. Devis ” The Elgar Companion to Economic Philosophy”
24	Assesment

TERM LEARNING ACTIVITIES	NUMBER	PERCENT
Midterm Exam	0	0
Quiz	0	0
Homeworks, Performances	0	0
Final Exam	1	100
Total	1	100
Contribution of Term (Year) Learning Activities to Success Grade		0
Contribution of Final Exam to Success Grade		100
Total		100
Measurement and Evaluation Techniques Used in the Course
Information

ECTS / WORK LOAD TABLE

CONTRIBUTION OF LEARNING OUTCOMES TO PROGRAMME QUALIFICATIONS

LO: Learning Objectives

PQ: Program Qualifications

Contribution Level:

1 Very Low

2 Low

3 Medium

4 High

5 Very High