This course is available on the BSc in Philosophy and Economics, BSc in Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, BSc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and BSc in Politics and Philosophy. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
This course is available on the BSc in Philosophy and Economics, BSc in Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, BSc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and BSc in Politics and Philosophy. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
10 hours of lectures and 10 hours of classes in the LT. No meetings will take place in reading week (Week 6).
Students will be expected to produce 1 essay and 1 exercise in the LT. Each student will write 1 formative essay of 1500 words, and will answer one short answer question to get acquainted with this form of assessment. Each student will receive feedback before turning in their summative work.
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, ed. by Roger Crisp (ed./trans.). Cambridge, 2000: Cambridge University Press. Anne Conway: The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy, ed. by Allison P. Coudert and Taylor Course. Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. Cambridge, 1996: Cambridge University Press. Ren? Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Replies, trans. Michael Moriarty. Oxford 2008: Oxford University Press. David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature, ed. by David F. Norton and Mary J. Norton. Oxford Philosophical Texts. Oxford, 2000: Oxford University Press. Mengzi: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries, ed. by Bryan W. Van Norden. Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2008. Christia Mercer, "Descartes? debt to Teresa of Ávila, or why we should work on women in the history of philosophy." Philosophical Studies?174 (10): 2539-2555, 2017 Uma Narayan & Sandra Harding (eds.): Decentering the Center: Philosophy for a Multicultural, Postcolonial, and Feminist World. Bloomington, IN 2000: Indiana University Press. Plato: The Republic, ed. by G.R.F Ferrari, trans. by Tom Griffith. Cambridge 2000: Cambridge University Press. Karl R. Popper: The logic of scientific discovery. Routledge classics. London 2005: Routledge. Eric Schliesser, (ed.): Ten Neglected Classics of Philosophy. Oxford 2016: Oxford University Press.
Essay (70%, 1500 words), in-class assessment (10%), class participation (10%) and exercise (10%) in the LT. There is no exam for this course. Each student will write an essay of 1500 words, which constitutes 70% of the mark. Each student will answer 6 short answer questions, 5 of which will be part of the summative assessment, contributing 10% of the mark. A feedback exercise in which the students practice acting on the feedback received on their formative essay will be worth 10%. The remaining 10% will be assessed through class participation.