Information Package / Course Catalogue
Kant and Trancendental Idealism
Course Code: FLSF632
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

To comprehend the importance of Kant's idea of criticism and its effects on contemporary philosophy.

Course Content

Kant's understanding of critical reason will be examined through her three main works.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes
1.To reveal the theoretical, practical and aesthetic results of Kant's understanding of critical reason.
2.To comprehend the relationship of Kant's understanding of critical reason with pre-modern and modern understandings of reason.
3.To comprehend the main goals of critical thinking and its importance today.
4.To reveal the communicative element of Kant's understanding of critical reason.
5.Evaluating Kant's influence on later philosophy
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Saf Aklın Eleştirisi, Çev. Aziz Yardımlı, İstanbul: İdea Yayınları, 1992
2.KANT, Immanuel. (1998). Critique of Pure Reason, Trans. and Ed. by. P. Guyer & A Wood. New York: Cambridge University Press
3.S. Gardner, Kant and Critique of Pure Reason, London: Routledge, 2000
4.Kant, İmmanuel, Pratik Aklın Eleştirisi, çev. İonna Kuçuradi Ülker Gökberk, Füsun Akatlı Ankara 1994.
5.Kant, Immanuel: Ahlak Metafiziğinin Temellendirilmesi, çev. Goanna Kuçuradi, Türkiye Felsefe Kurumu: Ankara 1994.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Kant's analysis of pure reason
Week 2 - Theoretical
Copernican Revolution in Thought
Week 3 - Theoretical
Transcendental Method Teaching
Week 4 - Theoretical
The evolution of the mind and the mind that made history
Week 5 - Theoretical
The discursive and public character of Reason and Criticism
Week 6 - Theoretical
Kant's critique of practical reason
Week 7 - Theoretical
Happiness moral understandings and criticism
Week 8 - Intermediate Exam
Exam
Week 9 - Theoretical
Kant's critique of the empiricism of practical reason
Week 10 - Theoretical
Kantian Practical reason: the problem of autonomy and heteronomy
Week 11 - Theoretical
Autonomous thinking and categorical imperative
Week 12 - Theoretical
Critical Reason and Judgment
Week 13 - Theoretical
Aesthetic and Teleological judgment
Week 14 - Theoretical
Maxims of judgment: extended thinking
Week 15 - Theoretical
Critical reasoning and communication
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
2
OÇ-2
2
OÇ-3
1
OÇ-4
2
OÇ-5
3
Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026