Doel vak

The objective of the course is to acquire philosophical skills, i.e.
skills you will need in the other philosophy courses. These include:
identifying claims and reconstructing arguments; evaluating the validity
of arguments; improving existing arguments and rewriting texts;
constructing definitions and counterexamples; analysing and evaluating
thought-experiments; formulating and defending one's own claims.

Inhoud vak

Consider typical philosophical claims: that moral responsibility does
not require that we could have acted otherwise, that knowledge is more
than justifief true belief, that a real life is preferable over a happy
life, and so on. The question arises: how do philosophers defend such
claims? And: how can we evaluate their arguments?

Onderwijsvorm

Seminars.

Toetsvorm

Assignments (40% in total)
Final exam (40%)
Paper (20%)

Literatuur

The literature will be announced on Canvas.