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Published on Philosophy Department (http://wvw.ufh.ac.za/departments/philosophy) Home > Programmes | > Undergraduate Courses Undergraduate Courses 2012 PHILOSOPHY PHL111/111E, PHL111F Introduction to Philosophy Purpose: To introduce the nature, methods, history and basic issues of the philosophical tradition Contents: What is philosophy? Dialogical character of philosophy. Philosophy and the sciences. Nature of philosophical questions and answers. Branches of philosophy. Variety of philosophical approaches. Historical periods of philosophy. Instruction: Lectures, self-study packets, tutorials Credits: 8 Assessment: Continuous assessment through tests, group work, assignments Summative Assessment: 2 hour examination Prerequisites: None PHL112/112E, PHL112F Elementary Logic Purpose: To introduce Elementary Logic as one of the primary branches of philosophy and basis of all scientific thinking Contents: The Argument (premises and conclusions, form and content, truth and validity, probability). Practical Logic: Material fallacies and Linguistic Fallacies. Formal Logic: standard form categorical syllogisms, Venn diagrammes, truth tables. Instruction: Lectures, self-study packets, tutorials Credits: 8 Assessment: Continuous assessment through tests, group work, assignments Summative Assessment: 2 hour examination Prerequisites: None PHL116/116E Logic and Ethics for Law Students Purpose: To introduce basic reasoning skills (Elementary Logic) and more specifically moral reasoning competencies (Ethics) essential to Legal Training. Contents: The Nature of Logic, The Structure of Arguments, The Role of Language, Arguments and Non-arguments, Deductive and Inductive Arguments, Truth, Validity and Soundness, Fallacies, The Nature, Function and Need of Ethics, Core Ethical Issues, Comparison of Ethical Approaches, Applied Ethical Problems. Instruction: Lectures, self-study packets, tutorials Credits: 16 Assessment: Continuous assessment through short class tests and tutorial exercises Summative Assessment: 2 hour examination Prerequisites: None PHL126/126E, PHL126F Classical Problems in Philosophy Purpose: To introduce the historical period and themes of ancient Greek philosophy as core to the development of the scien tific world-view and method Contents: Greek mythological thinking. History and features of ancient Greek philosophy. Question of arché. Problem of the One and the Many. Pythagorean School. Matter and mind. Problem of truth: Sophists, Socrates. Problem of universals: Plato, Aristotle. Concept of well-being. Reason and faith. Instruction: Lectures, self-study packets, tutorials Credits: 8 Assessment: Continuous assessment through tests, group work, assignments Summative Assessment: 2 hour examination Prerequisites: None PHL125/125E, PHL125F Ethics Purpose: To present Ethics as one of the major braches of the philosophical tradition, and demonstrate its use, relevance and significance for everyday life, as well as in select professions. Contents: Ethics (theory) and morality (practice). Function, need and history of ethics. Core ethical problems. Compar ison of selected ethical theories. Applied ethical problems. Moral dialogical competencies. Instruction: Lectures, self-study packets, tutorials Credits: 8 Assessment: Continuous assessment through tests, group work, assignments Summative Assessment: 2 hour examination Prerequisites: none PHL211/211E Renaissance and Enlightenment Philosophy Purpose: To introduce the historical period and main themes of the Renaissance and Enlightenment and its significance for the development of philosophy and science Contents: Transition from medieval period to modernity. Renaissance, reformation, new sciences, inventions and discover ies, socio-political revolutions. Empiricism: Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume). Rationalism: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz. Romanticism: Voltaire, Rousseau. Instruction: Lectures, self-study packets, tutorials Credits: 8 Assessment: Continuous assessment through tests, group work, assignments Summative Assessment: 2 hour examination Prerequisites: PHL111/111E PHL212/212E Philosophical Anthropology Purpose: To introduce the development and themes of Philosophical Anthropology as core to the humanities and the sciences. Contents: What does it mean to be human? Comparative analysis of various views of man: Naturalism, Idealism, Voluntar ism, Existentialism, Marxism, Pragmatism, African thinking, Eastern philosophies. Systematic aspects: constitution of man, man and science, man and philosophy today. Instruction: Lectures, self-study packets, tutorials Credits: 8 Assessment: Continuous assessment through tests, group work, assignments Summative Assessment: 2 hour examination Prerequisites: PHL112/112E PHL223/223E Kantian Philosophy Purpose: To introduce the thinking of Immanuel Kant as leading philosopher of the Enlightenment. Contents: Kant?s life and works. The critical problem in Kant?s transcendental philosophy. Development and unity Kantian of philosophy. Kantian epistemology, ethics, politics. Instruction: Lectures, self-study packets, tutorials Credits: 8 Assessment: Continuous assessment through tests, group work, assignments Summative Assessment: 2 hour examination Prerequisites: PHL123/123E PHL224/224E Social and Political Philosophy Purpose: To introduce the main aspects and trends of social and political philosophy. Contents: Ideologies of individualism and communalism. Social determinism. Person and structure. The social contract. Concepts of the State. Citizenship and sovereignty. Bills of rights and Constitutions. International law. Instruction: Lectures, self-study packets, tutorials Credits: 8 Assessment: Continuous assessment through tests, group work, assignments Summative Assessment: 2 hour examination Prerequisites: PHL124/124E PHL311/311E Philosophical Hermeneutics Purpose: To introduce Philosophical Hermeneutics as leading philosophical discipline of late modernity and post-modernity Contents: Historical development of hermeneutics as philosophical discipline. Hermeneutical theory Schleiermacher, Dilt hey, Betti. Hermeneutic philosophy: Heidegger, Gadamer. Critical hermeneutics: Apel, Habermans. Phenomenological Hermeneutics: Ricoeur. Instruction: Lectures, self-study packets, tutorials Credits: 16 Assessment: Continuous assessment through tests, group work, assignments Summative Assessment: 3 hour examination Prerequisites: PHL211/211E PHL312/312E Contemporary Philosophical Trends Purpose: Overview and comparative analysis of the most influential trends in 20th century philosophy Contents: Philosophy of life. Pragmatism. Phenomenology and Existentialism. Marxism and neo-Marxism. Neo-Positivism and Analytic philosophy. Structuralism and post-modernism, African philosophy (capita selecta). Instruction: Lectures, self-study packets, tutorials Credits: 16 Assessment: Continuous assessment through tests, group work, assignments Summative Assessment: 3 hour examination Prerequisites: PHL212/212E PHL323/323E Philosophy of Science Purpose: Analysis of the major issues in contemporary philosophy of science Contents: Concepts of science. Critical reflection on the scientific method. Conceptual foundations of the scientific met hod. Transcendental character of scientific theories. Scientific methodology and types of knowledge. Science and ethics. Instruction: Lectures, self-study packets, tutorials Credits: 16 Assessment: Continuous assessment through tests, group work, assignments Summative Assessment: 3 hour examination Prerequisites: PHL223/223E PHL325/325E African Philosophy Purpose: To introduce the main tenets, debates and schools that constitute present-day African philosophy. Contents: Debate about the identity of African philosophy. Trends and representatives in contemporary African philoso phy. Dialogue between western and African philosophies. Significance of African philosophy. In-depth study fo selected themes and authors. Instruction: Lectures, self study packets, tutorials Credits: 16 Assessment: Continuous assessment through tests, group work and assignments Summative Assessment: 3 hour examination Prerequisites: PHL224/224E