Module PHL3025A for 2019/0
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
PHL3025A: Philosophical Readings 4
This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:
1. Introduction: Kant and the Copernican Revolution in Philosophy. From Kant to Heidegger.
2. B&T: Introduction I – Exposition of the Question of the Meaning of Being
3. Being-In-The-World in General
4. The Worldhood of the World – analysis of environmentality
5. The Worldhood of the World – contrast with Descartes
6. Being-With and Being-One’s Self. The They.
7. The Existential Constitution of the ‘There’
8. The Everyday Being of the ‘There’ and the falling of Dasein.
9. Care as the Being of Dasein.
10. The Origin of the Work of Art
11. The Question Concerning Technology
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
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22 | 128 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
Category | Hours of study time | Description |
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Scheduled Learning and Teaching activity | 22 | 11 x 2 hour weekly seminars |
Guided Independent study | 44 | Reading and preparation for weekly seminar analysis and discussion on the core texts |
Guided Independent Study | 36 | Preparation for Assigned Essays |
Guided Independent Study | 48 | Reading materials to supplement and contextualise the core texts |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
Additional readings will be posted on the ELE web page.