1. FIRST CYCLE - BACHELOR'S DEGREE
  2. FACULTY OF SCIENCE AND LETTERS
  3. PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT
Course Information Course Learning Outcomes Course's Contribution To Program ECTS Workload Course Details
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COURSE INFORMATION
Course CodeCourse TitleL+P HourSemesterECTS
FEL 207THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE4 + 03rd Semester7

COURSE DESCRIPTION
Course Level Bachelor's Degree
Course Type Compulsory
Course Objective To reach a level where students can come up with, and defend, their own views about fundamental epistemological issues.
Course Content Possibility of knowledge, the source of knowledge and accurate information,scope and limits of knowledge, Truth and significance, skepticism, empiricism, rationalism, critical philosophy, entuisionism, positivism and new positivism, analytic philosophy
Prerequisites No the prerequisite of lesson.
Corequisite No the corequisite of lesson.
Mode of Delivery Face to Face

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES
1Recognizes certain problems about the nature of philosophy.
2Sees the differences between knowledge and justification.
3Evaluates epistemological views.
4Evaluates sceptical arguments.
5Recognises logical fallacies.

COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
PO 01PO 02PO 03PO 04PO 05PO 06PO 07PO 08PO 09PO 10PO 11PO 12PO 13PO 14
LO 001 224  434     
LO 002 334      4422
LO 003 112   2 22   
LO 004 321  1111  1 
LO 005 222  2221 3  
Sub Total 111013  78746732
Contribution02230012111110

ECTS ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD BY THE COURSE DESCRIPTION
ActivitiesQuantityDuration (Hour)Total Work Load (Hour)
Course Duration (14 weeks/theoric+practical)14456
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice)61166
Assignments5945
Mid-terms166
Final examination199
Total Work Load

ECTS Credit of the Course





182

7
COURSE DETAILS
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Details 2020-2021 Fall1FATİH SULTANMEHMET ÖZTÜRK


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Course Details
Course Code Course Title L+P Hour Course Code Language Of Instruction Course Semester
FEL 207 THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE 4 + 0 1 Turkish 2020-2021 Fall
Course Coordinator  E-Mail  Phone Number  Course Location Attendance
Prof. Dr. FATİH SULTANMEHMET ÖZTÜRK fsmozturk@pau.edu.tr FEN B0217 %80
Goals To reach a level where students can come up with, and defend, their own views about fundamental epistemological issues.
Content Possibility of knowledge, the source of knowledge and accurate information,scope and limits of knowledge, Truth and significance, skepticism, empiricism, rationalism, critical philosophy, entuisionism, positivism and new positivism, analytic philosophy
Topics
WeeksTopics
1 1.Analysis of knowledge . Types of knowledge: knowledge-how / knowledge-that . Theaetetus: what is knowledge? . Two basic requirements on knowledge: truth and belief
2 2.Knowledge and Justification
3 3. The problem of criterion The Gettier problem
4 4. Scepticism . Arguments for scepticism . Ancient scepticism
5 5.Descartes: First Meditation
6 6.Sources of knowledge and justification: rationalism and empiricism debate
7 7.Plato on knowledge in Meno and Republic The golden age of rationalism: Descartes
8 8.Aristotle and Epicuros on empiricism Locke: Essays
9 9.Hume and the problem of induction
10 10.Leibniz: New Essays
11 11.Kant: selections from Critique of Pure Reason
12 12.Where does knowledge come from? .The problem of perceptual knowledge .Testimony and memory .A priority and inference
13 13.The structure of knowledge and justification . Foundationalism . Coherentism
14 14.Quine and naturalized epistemology Continental epistemology
Materials
Materials are not specified.
Resources
ResourcesResources Language
What is This Thing Called KnowledgeEnglish
Course Assessment
Assesment MethodsPercentage (%)Assesment Methods Title
Final Exam50Final Exam
Midterm Exam50Midterm Exam
L+P: Lecture and Practice
PQ: Program Learning Outcomes
LO: Course Learning Outcomes