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COURSE DESCRIPTION

PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE/FEL 311

Course Title:	PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE
Credits	2	ECTS	3
Semester	5	Compulsory/Elective	Elective

COURSE INFO

-- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION

Turkish

-- NAME OF LECTURER(S)

Assist. Prof. Dr. Cevriye Demir GUNES

-- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)

http://websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/cevriye

-- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)

cevriye@gazi.edu.tr

-- LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT

To understand the relation between laws of nature and determinism
To recognize the relation of free will and determinism
To be able to discuss the necessity in nature

-- MODE OF DELIVERY

The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face

-- PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES

There is no prerequisite or co-requisite for this course.

-- RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENTS

There is no recommended optional programme component for this course.

--COURSE CONTENT
1. Week	What is philosophy of nature?What are the basic problems?
2. Week	Ancient philosopher’s approach to nature
3. Week	Aristotle’s philosophy of nature
4. Week	Medieval philosopher’s apprıach to nature
5. Week	Descartes and the new understanding of nature
6. Week	Bacon and Vico’s approach to nature
7. Week	Midterm Exam
8. Week	Determinism
9. Week	Determinism
10. Week	The methodology of natural sciences
11. Week	Determinizm, indeterminism and possibility
12. Week	Free will and determinism
13. Week	Radical theories of freedom
14. Week	Mecanism and finality
15. Week	Mecanism and finality
16. Week	Final Exam

-- RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED READING

Théorie du Dterminisme Causal, M. Espinoza, L’harmattan, 2006, Paris. Essai sur L’intelligibilité de la Nature, M. Espinoza, éditions Universitaire du Sud, 1987, Toulouse. Aristoteles, Fizik, çev. S. Babür, YKY, İstanbul, 2001. F. Bacon, Novum Organum, çev. S. Önal, Doruk Yay., İstanbul, 1999.

-- PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS

Lecture, Question & Answer, Demonstration,

-- WORK PLACEMENT(S)

Not Applicable

-- ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA

	Quantity	Percentage
Mid-terms	1	30
Assignment	1	10
Exercises	0	0
Projects	0	0
Practice	0	0
Quiz	0	0
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade		40
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade		60

-- WORKLOAD

Efficiency	Total Week Count	Weekly Duration (in hour)	Total Workload in Semester
Theoretical Study Hours of Course Per Week	14	2	28
Practising Hours of Course Per Week			0
Reading	4	6	24
Searching in Internet and Library	2	3	6
Designing and Applying Materials			0
Preparing Reports			0
Preparing Presentation	1	9	9
Presentation			0
Mid-Term and Studying for Mid-Term	1	9	9
Final and Studying for Final	1	10	10
Other			0
TOTAL WORKLOAD:			86
TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25:			3.44
ECTS:			3

-- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

NO	PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES	1	2	3	4	5
1	To obtain the ability of understanding and using the basic concepts of the discipline of philosophy.				X
2	To be a person who criticizes, investigates and makes true evaluations, by obtaining a philosophical look upon the values.				X
3	To obtain the ability of understanding and evaluating the philosophical problems by using the basic concepts.				X
4	To be a sensible person to the humane, social, cultural, moral and political problems in our age and to produce solutions to these problems in a philosophical manner.					X
5	To improve the methods of text analysing, interpretation, evaluation and critique which bring in skills for text reading and writing concerning the comprehension and solution of philosophical problems.					X
6	To use the correct forms of thinking and obtain intellectual accoutrements, by developing a philosophical look upon knowledge, science, art and being. by making the symbolic and abstract thinking a habit.				X
7	To obtain a consciousness regarding the preservation of the human rights, history and ethics by seeing the development of the thought of the human rights with a philosophical look upon human.			X
8	To obtain a power of reasoning creativly and coherently and an ability to look from different perspectives at the events			X
9	by making the symbolic and abstract thinking a habit.					X
10	To be able to realize the relations of philosophical problems with contemporary problems.					X
11	To be able to relate the problems of different disciplines.				X
12	To think analytically.				X
13	To compare the relationship between opposing views.					X
14	To learn a foreign language at a basic level.
15	To be able to use communication Technologies at a basic level.

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