Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University Course Catalogue
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| Year/Semester of Study | 4 / Fall Semester | ||||
| Level of Course | 1st Cycle Degree Programme | ||||
| Type of Course | Optional | ||||
| Department | PHILOSOPHY | ||||
| Pre-requisities and Co-requisites | None | ||||
| Mode of Delivery | Face to Face | ||||
| Teaching Period | 14 Weeks | ||||
| Name of Lecturer | ARMAN BESLER (armanbesler@nevsehir.edu.tr) | ||||
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| Language of Instruction | Turkish | ||||
| Work Placement(s) | None | ||||
| Objectives of the Course | |||||
| The aim of this course is to introduce the student the basic problems and concepts, and works by leading theoreticians of the modern philosophy of language, and teach the student methods of analysis developed in that discipline. | |||||
| Learning Outcomes | PO | MME | |
| The students who succeeded in this course: | |||
| LO-1 | can explain the historical development of philosophical thinking on language. |
PO-3 Conducting research on, and developing methods in solving, philosophical problems treated in philosophical texts. PO-8 Understanding, resolving and – if need be – manipulating singular problems confronted in sub-disciplines of philosophy. PO-13 Identifying inferential structures in given textual materials. |
Examination |
| LO-2 | can explain the theory of descriptions, and conduct Russellian analyses. |
PO-1 Developing skills of analytic and synthetic thinking, reading and writing. PO-8 Understanding, resolving and – if need be – manipulating singular problems confronted in sub-disciplines of philosophy. PO-13 Identifying inferential structures in given textual materials. PO-14 Approaching in a philosophical-logical manner to discussions in non-philosophical fields. |
Examination |
| LO-3 | can explain the concepts and demarcations of the ordinary language approach. |
PO-1 Developing skills of analytic and synthetic thinking, reading and writing. PO-3 Conducting research on, and developing methods in solving, philosophical problems treated in philosophical texts. PO-8 Understanding, resolving and – if need be – manipulating singular problems confronted in sub-disciplines of philosophy. PO-13 Identifying inferential structures in given textual materials. |
Examination |
| PO: Programme Outcomes MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation |
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| Course Contents | ||
| A brief exposition of the basic concepts/notions and problems of thinking on language from pre-Socratic Greek philosophers to 20th and 21st century philosophers; presentation of the works by Frege, Moore, Russell, Wittgenstein and Ramsey as the initial outcomes of 20th century linguistic turn; an exhibition of the adventure of the ideal of a characteristica universalis as a tool for revealing deep logical forms from Leibniz to Frege, Russell and Wittgenstein; presentation of Frege's theory of meaning; presentation of the revolution made by Russell via his theory of descriptions in philosophical analysis; presentation of the diffractions in semantical theory initiated by Quine and Davidson; an exhibition of the basic claims of the ordinary language view, and of the generation and outcomes of the notions of use and context in the philosophical analysis of language. | ||
| Weekly Course Content | ||
| Week | Subject | Learning Activities and Teaching Methods |
| 1 | History of the philosophy of language | Lecture |
| 2 | History of the philosophy of language | Lecture |
| 3 | Universal characteristic in Leibniz | Lecture |
| 4 | Universal characteristic in Frege and the new logic | Lecture |
| 5 | Frege's theory of meaning | Lecture |
| 6 | Frege's theory of meaning | Lecture |
| 7 | The linguistic turn | Lecture |
| 8 | mid-term exam | |
| 9 | Russell's theory of descriptions | Lecture |
| 10 | Russell's theory of descriptions | Lecture |
| 11 | Logical atomism in Wittgenstein and Russell | Lecture |
| 12 | Ordinary language school | Lecture |
| 13 | Meaning as use in Wittgenstein | Lecture |
| 14 | Quine's semantic scepticism | Lecture |
| 15 | Davidson's Tarskian program | Lecture |
| 16 | final exam | |
| Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading | ||
| 1 | Altınörs, A. (2015). Dil Felsefesi Tartışmaları: Platon’dan Chomsky’ye, İstanbul: Bilge Kültür Sanat. | |
| 2 | Soames, S. (2010), Philosophy of Language, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. | |
| Required Course instruments and materials | ||
| Coursebook | ||
| Assessment Methods | |||
| Type of Assessment | Week | Hours | Weight(%) |
| mid-term exam | 8 | 1 | 40 |
| Other assessment methods | |||
| 1.Oral Examination | |||
| 2.Quiz | |||
| 3.Laboratory exam | |||
| 4.Presentation | |||
| 5.Report | |||
| 6.Workshop | |||
| 7.Performance Project | |||
| 8.Term Paper | |||
| 9.Project | |||
| final exam | 16 | 1 | 60 |
| Student Work Load | |||
| Type of Work | Weekly Hours | Number of Weeks | Work Load |
| Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) | 3 | 14 | 42 |
| Outside Class | |||
| a) Reading | 6 | 5 | 30 |
| b) Search in internet/Library | 6 | 5 | 30 |
| c) Performance Project | 0 | ||
| d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report | 0 | ||
| e) Term paper/Project | 0 | ||
| Oral Examination | 0 | ||
| Quiz | 0 | ||
| Laboratory exam | 0 | ||
| Own study for mid-term exam | 6 | 3 | 18 |
| mid-term exam | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Own study for final exam | 7 | 4 | 28 |
| final exam | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | |||
| 0 | |||
| Total work load; | 150 | ||