To enable the student to recognize the presuppositions and paradigms of scientific thinking and science.
Prerequisite(s)
NONE
Corequisite(s)
NONE
Special Requisite(s)
70% attendance to the weekly sessions
Instructor(s)
Professor Cengiz ÇAKMAK
Course Assistant(s)
NONE
Schedule
To be assigned in the new semester
Office Hour(s)
To be assigned in the new semester
Teaching Methods and Techniques
Presentation of ideas and arguments based on inquiry about one’s own presuppositions as well as discussions related to examples from contemporary ethical conflicts and violence due to ideological conditionings and lack of philosophical insight as to the basis of such conditionings.
Principle Sources
- Erkut Sezgin, Esrarıengin Arkeolog, Cem Yayınevi, 2011.
- Lev Nikolayeviç Tolstoy, Ivan Ilyiç'in Ölümü, İnkılap Kitabevi, 2008, ISBN: 9789751025159.
- Platon, Lysis Lakhes, Sosyal Yayınları, 2009.
Other Sources
- Platon, Lysis Dostluk Üzerine, Kabalcı Yayınevi, 2007.
- Erkut Sezgin, Wittgenstein'ın Ardından Beden ve Zihin Hareketleri, Cem Yayınevi, 2000.
Course Schedules
Week
Contents
Learning Methods
1. Week
Early Greek Philosophy on the Essence of Nature (Physis)
2. Week
Early Greek Philosophy on the Essence of Nature (Physis)
3. Week
The Apology of Socrates and his Wisdom expressed as knowing that he knows nothing
4. Week
Socrates and the Sophists on the criterion of knowledge
5. Week
The interconnections between the conventional rules of language thinking and logic
6. Week
The phenomena of life operational in learning the rules of language
7. Week
The phenomena of life operational in learning the rules of language
8. Week
The connection between the conventional rules of language and logic
9. Week
Mid-term examination
10. Week
The paradigms of contemporary philosophy of science
11. Week
Criticism of Cartesian theory of knowledge and logic in the light of contemporary elucidations of the interconnections between rules of language, thinking and representations of language
12. Week
Criticism of ideological thinking in the light of clarifications of the historical paradigms and rules of thinking in the context of language-phenomena
13. Week
Reassessment of values of culture from the standpoint of philosophical awareness about the paradigms and rules of thinking in the context of language
14. Week
The ethical possibilities of awareness about the ideological conditioning of human thinking and consciousness with the rules and paradigms of the historical languages-and cultures in which human beings are trained and educated.
15. Week
Final week
16. Week
Final week
17. Week
Final week
Assessments
Evaluation tools
Quantity
Weight(%)
Midterm(s)
1
40
Final Exam
1
60
Program Outcomes
PO-1
Interpreting advanced theoretical and applied knowledge in Mathematics and Computer Science.
PO-2
Critiquing and evaluating data by implementing the acquired knowledge and skills in Mathematics and Computer Science.
PO-3
Recognizing, describing, and analyzing problems in Mathematics and Computer Science; producing solution proposals based on research and evidence.
PO-4
Understanding the operating logic of computer and recognizing computational-based thinking using mathematics as a discipline.
PO-5
Collaborating as a team-member, as well as individually, to produce solutions to problems in Mathematics and Computer Science.
PO-6
Communicating in a foreign language, and interpreting oral and written communicational abilities in Turkish.
PO-7
Using time effectively in inventing solutions by implementing analytical thinking.
PO-8
Understanding professional ethics and responsibilities.
PO-9
Having the ability to behave independently, to take initiative, and to be creative.
PO-10
Understanding the importance of lifelong learning and developing professional skills continuously.
PO-11
Using professional knowledge for the benefit of the society.
Learning Outcomes
LO-1
The student understands the differences of the idea of nature of the early Greek philosophers to compare it with one’s own beliefs and presuppositions about nature.
LO-2
Student understands and interprets the idea of the wisdom of Sokrates in connection with the ideas and arguments expressed in the Apology.
LO-3
Understands the differences and similarities Socrates’s view about the criterion of knowledge to compare and interpret them with the ideas of Sophists and one’s own ideas about knowledge.
LO-4
Understands the interconnections between language, thinking and beliefs in knowledge and expresses a critical understanding about one’s own presuppositions and paradigms by comparing them with different interpretations relative to different rules and norms of different historical cultures.
LO-5
Understands the rules and paradigms of one’s own thinking relative to one’s own culture and interprets different ways of thinking and compares them with the historical changes in scientific interpretation of reality.
LO-6
Understands and interprets the connection between one’s own logical thinking and the conventional rules of language and culture.
LO-7
In the light of understanding and recognizing the paradigms of scientific thinking and logic, understands and interprets the reality represented and verified as truth by scientific thinking and logic.
LO-8
Compares the paradigms of Cartesian philosophy of scientific reality with one’s own truth beliefs in the light of paradigms elucidated as connected with the rules and conventions of language and culture.
LO-9
Compares and interprets the cultural basis of one’s own values and beliefs with other belief and value systems relative to different cultures.
LO-10
By recognizing and inquiring into the cultural and language phenomena operational in learning the rules of thinking and operating in language, student expresses a critical understanding as to the roots of ideological conditionings due to training and education.
