COURSE SYLLABUS

HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY II

1	Course Title:	HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY II
2	Course Code:	İLA3018
3	Type of Course:	Compulsory
4	Level of Course:	First Cycle
5	Year of Study:	3
6	Semester:	6
7	ECTS Credits Allocated:	2
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. Kasım KÜÇÜKALP
16	Course Lecturers:
17	Contactinformation of the Course Coordinator:	kasimkucukalp@uludag.edu.tr 0 505 732 29 06
18	Website:
19	Objective of the Course:	To focus upon concepts, methods, issues, and values those are fundamental to, and significant within the history of modern philosophy. The main objective of this course is to introduce the students to some of the main problems and philosophical thoughts in the history of modern philosophy.
20	Contribution of the Course to Professional Development

Learning Outcomes:

1	Philosophers, major movements, issues and philosophical systems in the modern philosophy are learned.;
2	The problems/issues of the history of philosophy that have shaped the modern thought are conceived.;
3	The philosophycal background of the fundamental political concepts in the modern Western thought: democracy, equality, liberty and human rights, etc. are learned.;
4	Ability in critical thinking skills is gained.;
5	Ability to read, interpret, recognize, express, and analyze arguments in modern philosophical texts is gained.;
6	The differences and continuation of modern and classical Western philosophy are learned.;
7	The relationship of modern life, art, religion, literature, technics and modern science with modern philosophy are learned.;
8	Student recognizes the diversity of human experience across a range of historical periods and cultural perspective.;
9	Student can evaluate an argument of a modern philosopher in terms of the rigor of its logic and the plausibility of its premises.;
10	The relationship between modern philosophy and religion and different perspectives on religion in the modern thought are learned.;

22	Course Content:

Week	Theoretical	Practical
1	The Renaissance Philosophy
2	The Rise of Modern Science and İts Development
3	Bacon and Hobbes
4	The Rationalists I: Descartes
5	The Rationalists II: Spinoza
6	The Rationalists III: Leibniz
7	The Empiricists I: John Locke
8	The Empiricists II: George Berkeley
9	The Empiricists III: David Hume
10	Enlightenment Thought
11	Kant and the Rise of German Idealism
12	German Idealism I: Fichte and Schelling
13	German Idealism II: Hegel
14	Marx and Materialist Philosophy of History

23	Textbooks, References and/or Other Materials:	Ahmet Cevizci, Felsefe Tarihi: Thales’ten Baudrillard’a, Say Yayınları, İstanbul 2010. Kasım Küçükalp and Ahmet Cevizci, Batı Düşüncesi, İsam yayınları, İstanbul 2009.
24	Assesment

TERM LEARNING ACTIVITIES	NUMBER	PERCENT
Midterm Exam	1	40
Quiz	0	0
Homeworks, Performances	0	0
Final Exam	1	60
Total	2	100
Contribution of Term (Year) Learning Activities to Success Grade		40
Contribution of Final Exam to Success Grade		60
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