Module PHL2053 for 2019/0
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
PHL2053: History of Philosophy
This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.
Module Aims
You will gain a good understanding of some key problems addressed by early modern philosophers, including their rationale and various attempts at solving them. By making a critical study of these topics, focusing on primary texts, your skills in the analysis, evaluation and presentation of arguments will be enhanced.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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Module-Specific Skills | 1. Identify and discuss the questions, themes and topics addressed by some early modern philosophers. 2. Distinguish and evaluate certain positions and arguments within early modern philosophy. 3. Read and understand early modern philosophical texts in their historical and philosophical context. |
Discipline-Specific Skills | 4. Demonstrate a good understanding of the interrelation between historical events and philosophical developments. 5. Demonstrate sound knowledge of different types of philosophical analysis. |
Personal and Key Skills | 6. Demonstrate an expanded philosophical vocabulary and understanding with respect to key ideas in early modern philosophy. 7. Engage in complex arguments both orally and through writing. 8. Conduct research independently engaging with complex ideas and problems. |
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Readings will primarily come from the following two anthologies:
1. Ariew, Roger & Watkins, Eric (eds.) (2009), Modern Philosophy: An Anthology of Primary Sources, 2nd edition, Hackett Pub Co.
2. Atherton, Margaret (ed.) (1994), Women philosophers of the early modern period, Hackett Pub Co.