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.
