Analytical Philosophy
Code: 100301 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2500246 Philosophy | OB | 3 | 2 |
Contact
- Name:
- Olga Fernandez Prat
- Email:
- olga.fernandez@uab.cat
Teaching groups languages
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Prerequisites
It is recommended to have studied History of Ancient Philosophy and History of Modern Philosophy.
Objectives and Contextualisation
In this course one of the main schools of contemporary philosophy, the Analytical Philosophy, will be introduced. The Analytic Philosophy now encompasses a far wider range of approaches, ideas and positions than it ever did in its early days. This course will examine the origins of this tradition by closely reading primary texts from key figures, including Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, G.E. Moore, Rudolf Carnap, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Gilbert Ryle, and Elizabeth Anscombe. The purpose is to allow the understanging of this tradition form within, capturing what are the motivations that led to its development.You will develop an understanding of the methods and claims of analytic philosophy and be well positioned to participate in contemporary philosophical debates.
Competences
- Act within one's own area of knowledge, evaluating sex/gender-based inequalities.
- Analysing and summarising the main arguments of fundamental texts of philosophy in its various disciplines.
- Placing the most representative philosophical ideas and arguments of a period in their historical background and relating the most important authors of each period of any philosophical discipline.
- Recognising and interpreting topics and problems of philosophy in its various disciplines.
- Students must be capable of collecting and interpreting relevant data (usually within their area of study) in order to make statements that reflect social, scientific or ethical relevant issues.
- Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
- Students must develop the necessary learning skills to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
- Thinking in a critical and independent manner on the basis of the specific topics, debates and problems of philosophy, both historically and conceptually.
Learning Outcomes
- Applying philosophical rigour in a written text following the international quality standards.
- Autonomously searching, selecting and processing information both from structured sources (databases, bibliographies, specialized magazines) and from across the network.
- Carrying out a planning for the development of a subject-related work.
- Communicate by making non-sexist, non-discriminatory use of language.
- Discriminating the features that define the writer's place in the context of a problem and reorganising them in a consistent diagram.
- Distinguishing and outlining the fundamental content of a philosophical text.
- Distinguishing the topics of philosophical relevance in current debates.
- Expressing both orally and in written form, the issues and basic problems of the philosophical tradition.
- Propose projects and actions that incorporate a gender perspective.
- Reading basic philosophical text thoroughly.
- Reading thoroughly philosophical texts of the History of Philosophy.
- Recognising, with a critical eye, philosophical referents of the past and present and assessing its importance.
- Relating the various orders of the philosophical ideas of different authors and historical moments.
- Solving problems autonomously.
- Submitting works in accordance with both individual and small group demands and personal styles.
- Summarising the topics and arguments exposed in a classical philosophical debate.
- Using suitable terminology when drawing up an academic text.
Content
1. What is Analytic Philosophy?
2. Frege: The Mathematical Background to Analytic Philosophy.
3. The revolt against idealism: Moore and Russell.
4. Russell: Philosophy of logic and methological issues.
5. Moore: The Cambridge School.
6. Wittgenstein: The linguistic turn.
7. The Viena Circle: Carnap.
8. Beyond the linguistic turn.
Methodology
The guided activities follow the methodology of learning based on the approach and problem solving. These activities are basically of two types:
a) Theoretical presentations of the subject with discussion of problems related to it by the teacher.
b) Argumentation practices in the classroom through scheduled lectures. The student will have to read texts that will be presented and discussed by all the students in such a way that they capture the main ideas and the internal relations of the text. Students must take part in the internship in order to acquire the assigned competencies and be able to be assessed as a whole. For this reason, student attendance will be monitored and will have weight in the final assessment.
Theoretical and practical classes will alternate throughout the course.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Discussion in class of required readings. | 25 | 1 | 2, 5, 3, 8, 17, 15, 13, 14 |
| Lectures. | 40 | 1.6 | 5, 7, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Preparation of presentations/written papers. | 30 | 1.2 | 2, 5, 6, 3, 8, 17, 10, 11, 15, 12, 13, 16 |
| Resolution of doubts. | 19.5 | 0.78 | 10, 11, 16 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Required and supplementary readings. | 31 | 1.24 | 2, 5, 7, 6, 3, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16 |
Assessment
Continuous assessment:
The continuous assessment will be based on (i) the grade obtained in an exam of the first part of the course (40% of the final grade), (ii) the grade obtained in an exam of the second part of the course (40% of the final grade), (iii)
and (iii) class attendance for take the practical classes that will consist of reading and commenting on texts and/or making small essays. In order to have the possibility of obtaining 20% of the grade, you must attend a minimum of 90% of the practices.
Exam dates will be communicated in the Moodle calendar with sufficient time. Students who, for ANY reason, cannot attend the tests during the course, will take the reassessment exam directly.
On carrying out each evaluation activity, lecturers will inform students (on Moodle) of the procedures to be followed for reviewing all grades awarded, and the date on which such a review will take place.
Spelling will be assessed. The repetition of spelling or grammatical errors (minimum four) will result in a penalty of 10% of the grade of the test taken.
In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student
will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject.
Students will obtain a "Not assessed/Not submitted course grade unless they have submitted more than 1/3 of the assessment items.
The reassessment exams are (i) and (ii) and will have the same format and weight as the course examinations (40%, 40%).
Single assessment:
The single assessment will be based on (i) the grade obtained in an exam of the first part of the course (40% of the final grade), (ii) the grade obtained in an exam of the second part of the course (40% of the final mark), (iii) the mark obtained
in a text commentary (20%).
Spelling will be assessed. The repetition of spelling or grammatical errors (minimum four) will result in a penalty of 10% of the grade of thetest taken.
In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student
will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject.
Students will obtain a "Not assessed/Not submitted course grade unless they have submitted more than 1/3 of the assessment items.
The same reassesment method will be applied as continuous assessment will be used; including the format and weight of examinations (40%, 40%)
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Classroom activities. | 20% | 1.5 | 0.06 | 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 6, 3, 8, 17, 10, 11, 15, 9, 12, 13, 14, 16 |
| Examination on topics 1 to 4 and their required readings. | 40% | 1.5 | 0.06 | 2, 5, 7, 3, 8, 17, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16 |
| Examination on topics 5 to 8 and their required readings. | 40% | 1.5 | 0.06 | 2, 5, 7, 6, 3, 8, 17, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16 |
Bibliography
1. Required readings (you will find in Campus Virtual).
2. Books:
Maria Ponte Azcárate, David Pérez Chico i Moisés Barroso (ed.), Pluralidad de la filosofía analítica, Madrid: Plaza y Valdés, 2007.
Hans-Johann Glock, What is Analytic Philosophy?, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Steven D. Hales, Analytic Philosophy: Classic Readings, Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc, 2001.
Javier Muguerza, La concepción analítica de la filosofía, Alianza, 1974.
León Olivé, L. (ed.), Racionalidad. Ensayos sobre la racionalidad en ética y política ciencia y tecnología, s.XXI, 1988.
Scott Soames, The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy, Princeton University Press, 2014.
Web links:
Stanford Enciclopedia of Philosophy: http://plato.stanford.edu/
Software
None.