Information Package / Course Catalogue
Language Revisited in Contemporary Philosophy
Course Code: FLSF618
Course Type: Area Elective
Couse Group: Third Cycle (Doctorate Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 3
Prt.: 0
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 5
Objectives of the Course

Seeing the problems about language and comprehending to the interest of language to practical moving from effects of language on the contemporary philosophy of politics.

Course Content

In this course will be investigated the starting point and philosophical sources of “linguistic turn movement”. Accordingly it will be mentioned to the communicational turn and its effects on discourse ethics and communicational theories. Reference concepts of course are ‘critical reason’ of Frankfurt School, Arendt’s ‘agnostic public sphere’ and Habermas’s ‘Communicational act’.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes
1.Comprehending the relation between philosophical problems and linguistic problems
2.Determinig the relations between the problem of meaning and logical-linguistic problems
3.Identifying the relationship between the language and the world
4.Gaining substantial knowledge about the philosophies of Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Quine and Kripke
5.To be able to explain the importance and place of linguistic turn in the history of philosophy
Recommended or Required Reading
1.1.Lecture notes
2.2.Basic works of Frankfurt School, Arendt and Habermas
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Historical roots of ‘Linguistic Turn’
Week 1 - Preparation Work
Book, Internet and Library Browsing
Week 2 - Theoretical
Frankfurt School and the Critics of Enlightenment
Week 2 - Preparation Work
Book, Internet and Library Browsing
Week 3 - Theoretical
Frankfurt School and the Critics of Ideology
Week 3 - Preparation Work
Book, Internet and Library Browsing
Week 4 - Theoretical
Relationship between language and ethics in Habermas and Adorno
Week 4 - Preparation Work
Book, Internet and Library Browsing
Week 5 - Theoretical
Relationship between language and subject
Week 5 - Preparation Work
Book, Internet and Library Browsing
Week 6 - Theoretical
Habermas’s the theory of communicational action
Week 6 - Preparation Work
Book, Internet and Library Browsing
Week 7 - Theoretical
Habermas’s ‘Public Sphere’
Week 7 - Preparation Work
Book, Internet and Library Browsing
Week 8 - Intermediate Exam
Midterm
Week 9 - Theoretical
Habermas and normative public sphere
Week 9 - Preparation Work
Book, Internet and Library Browsing
Week 10 - Theoretical
Normativity and Communication
Week 10 - Preparation Work
Book, Internet and Library Browsing
Week 11 - Theoretical
Communication and discourse ethics
Week 11 - Preparation Work
Book, Internet and Library Browsing
Week 12 - Theoretical
Arendt and publicly thinking
Week 12 - Preparation Work
Book, Internet and Library Browsing
Week 13 - Theoretical
Relationship between language, thinking and tradition in Arendt.
Week 13 - Preparation Work
Book, Internet and Library Browsing
Week 14 - Theoretical
Political action in agnostic public sphere
Week 14 - Preparation Work
Book, Internet and Library Browsing
Week 15 - Theoretical
Political action in agnostic public sphere
Week 15 - Preparation Work
Book, Internet and Library Browsing
Week 16 - Theoretical
General Assessment
Week 16 - Preparation Work
Book, Internet and Library Browsing
Week 17 - Final Exam
Final
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%40
Final Examination1%60
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory151360
Seminar18210
Reading50210
Midterm Examination118220
Final Examination118220
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)120
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
PÇ-1
PÇ-2
PÇ-3
PÇ-4
PÇ-5
OÇ-1
1
2
1
2
1
OÇ-2
1
2
1
2
1
OÇ-3
1
2
1
2
1
OÇ-4
1
2
1
2
1
OÇ-5
2
5
2
5
2
Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026