Module PHL2025A for 2019/0
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
PHL2025A: Philosophical Readings 4
This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.
Module Aims
This module will familiarise you with Martin Heidegger's Being and Time, one of the most important and trend-setting texts of the twentieth century and two of the most influential essays of his later work. Through careful and detailed study of these texts, supplemented by secondary sources, and in depth class discussions, you will enhance your familiarity with the fundamental techniques required to read, understand and critically engage with a philosophical text.
| On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
|---|---|
| Module-Specific Skills | 1. engage in in-depth study of a text through detailed reading and analysis; 2. demonstrate sound understanding of the historical and social context of production of the philosophical book; 3. question/criticise the texts approach from different perspectives; |
| Discipline-Specific Skills | 4. analyse philosophical arguments; 5. reason about the abstract and concrete problems addressed in texts; 6. write well-argued essays using appropriate philosophical arguments and language; |
| Personal and Key Skills | 7. construct and evaluate arguments; 8. formulate and express ideas at different levels of abstraction; and 9. assess, analyse, discuss, and criticise the views of others. |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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.
How this Module is Assessed
In the tables below, you will see reference to 'ILO's. An ILO is an Intended Learning Outcome - see Aims and Learning Outcomes for details of the ILOs for this module.
Formative Assessment
A formative assessment is designed to give you feedback on your understanding of the module content but it will not count towards your mark for the module.
| Form of assessment | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oral seminar presentation | 5 minutes | 1-9 | Oral |
Summative Assessment
A summative assessment counts towards your mark for the module. The table below tells you what percentage of your mark will come from which type of assessment.
| Coursework | Written exams | Practical exams |
|---|---|---|
| 100 | 0 | 0 |
...and this table provides further details on the summative assessments for this module.
| Form of assessment | % of credit | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essay 1 | 50 | 2,000 words | 1-9 | Written |
| Essay 2 | 50 | 2,000 words | 1-9 | Written |
Re-assessment
Re-assessment takes place when the summative assessment has not been completed by the original deadline, and the student has been allowed to refer or defer it to a later date (this only happens following certain criteria and is always subject to exam board approval). For obvious reasons, re-assessments cannot be the same as the original assessment and so these alternatives are set. In cases where the form of assessment is the same, the content will nevertheless be different.
| Original form of assessment | Form of re-assessment | ILOs re-assessed | Timescale for re-assessment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Essay 1 | Essay (2,000 words) | 1-9 | August/September re-assessment period |
| Essay 2 | Essay (2,000 words) | 1-9 | August/September re-assessment period |
