Information Package / Course Catalogue
Critical Thinking
Course Code: FEL102
Course Type: Area Elective
Couse Group: First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 2
Prt.: 0
Credit: 2
Lab: 0
ECTS: 3
Objectives of the Course

To teach criticism, critical thinking, methods, critical reasoning and argument development.

Course Content

Criticism, essential elements of critical thinking, language, and rhetoric, produce an argument, argument checking, forms of reasoning, deceptive reasoning, probability, valid inference, and selected texts.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Prof. Tuncay SAYGIN
Learning Outcomes
1.Comprehending meaning of philosophy and critical thinking.
2.Knowing characteristic distinction of philosophy, science, religion and art.
3.Comprehending the philosophy of knowledge, ontology and epistemology and main problems.
4.Comprehending characteristics politics, law, history and science and linked with current problems.
5.Comprehending philosophical aspects of art, language and education.
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Critical thinking: A concise guide. T Bowell, G Kemp. Routledge, 2005
2.Plato: Complete Works Plato , John M. Cooper (Editor) , D.S. Hutchinson, New York: Hackett Publishing Co.1997
3.Descartes, The Philosophical Writings of Descartes I, II, tran. J. Cottingham, Cambridge Uni. Press, 1999.
4.Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, trans. W. S. Pluhar, New York: Hackett Publishing Co.1996
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
What is called thinking? Principles of thinking and critics.
Week 2 - Theoretical
Critics, main components of critical thinking, language and rhetoric
Week 3 - Theoretical
Types of arguments and improve arguments.
Week 4 - Theoretical
Reasoning methods, deceptive reasongins, possiblities in reasoning, Validity and Invalidity / soundness, unsoundness.
Week 5 - Theoretical
Some argumentative selected texts: Plato/Aristotle.
Week 6 - Theoretical
Some argumentative selected texts: Plato/Aristotle.
Week 7 - Theoretical
Ontological and epistemological critical thinking.
Week 8 - Theoretical
God, Universe and the question of evil.
Week 9 - Theoretical
What is good and what is ethical? The question of freedom.
Week 10 - Theoretical
What is justice? Politics and social life.
Week 11 - Theoretical
What is science? Science and technic. Major debates in philosophy of sciences.
Week 12 - Theoretical
What is language? What is the origin of language?
Week 13 - Theoretical
Güzel nedir? Sanat nedir?
Week 14 - Theoretical
What is called consiousness?
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%40
Final Examination1%60
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory140228
Individual Work140228
Midterm Examination1516
Final Examination15510
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)72
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
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OÇ-1
4
4
3
4
3
3
3
4
4
OÇ-2
4
4
3
4
3
3
3
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4
OÇ-3
4
4
3
4
3
3
3
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4
OÇ-4
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
OÇ-5
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
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