Philosophy of the Humanities
Offered By: Leiden University via YouTube
Course Description
Overview
Syllabus
Chapter 1.1: Introduction to logic.
Chapter 1.2: Induction and background theories.
Chapter 1.3: Where reasoning goes wrong.
Chapter 1.4: Karl Popper and the logic of falsification.
Chapter 2.1: Thomas Kuhn, normal science.
Chapter 2.2: Thomas Kuhn, scientific revolutions.
Chapter 2.3: Thomas Kuhn, incommensurability and progress.
Chapter 2.4: Michel Foucault, epistemes.
Chapter 2.5: Michel Foucault, power.
Chapter 3.1: Carl Hempel, laws in history.
Chapter 3.2: The Age of Reason and the Age of History.
Chapter 3.3: Hegel, the logic of History.
Chapter 3.4: Karl Marx, the end of history.
Chapter 3.5: Collingwood, the re-enactment of history.
Chapter 3.6: Hayden White, the story of history.
Chapter 4.1: The hermeneutic circle.
Chapter 4.2: Wilhelm Dilthey, the importance of hermeneutics.
Chapter 4.3: Structuralism, structure and identity.
Chapter 4.4: Structuralism, language and world.
Chapter 4.5: Vladimir Propp, the structure of fairy tales.
Chapter 5.1: Friedrich Nietzsche, the attack on foundations.
Chapter 5.2: Friedrich Nietzsche, the attack on truth.
Chapter 5.3: Richard Rorty, language as a tool.
Chapter 5.4: Jacques Derrida, no one ever gets to clarity.
Chapter 5.5: Universalism and identity.
BA Philosophy: Global and Comparative Perspectives at Leiden University #2.
Taught by
Leiden University - Faculty of Humanities
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