Admission requirements
Admission to (one of) the programme(s) listed under Part of in the information bar on the right.
Description
This core seminar in the 1-year Global and Comparative Philosophy MA degree will introduce students to different approaches to doing scholarship in intercultural philosophy. The course is designed both to acqualint students with the major methodological approaches to intercultural philosophical research in contemporary academic practice and to give them an opportunity to reflect criticially on these methodologies in preparation for choosing one or more of them for their own coming MA theses. The methods which will be covered in the course are the “classical comparative method,” the textual-historical method, the hermeneutic method and the “fusion philosophy” approach. Examples of these methodological approaches will be studied in turn, and at the end of the seminar, an anthology of essays on a specific theme of intercultural philosophy will be read which offers examples of each of these methods.
Course objectives
Students will read scholarly investigations of intercultural philosophy using each distinct method and then one anthology of essays which deals with a single theme in intercurual philosophy using these various methods.
In paired group presentations and orally formilated and posed weekly questions, students will give accurate expositions of various philosophical approaches and dialogue about their respective strengths, weaknesses and compatibilities or incompatibilities.
Students will undertake a major research project in intercultural philosophy in the form of a final research paper which will employ or critically evaluate one or more of the methods studied during the semester.
Timetable
The timetables are available through MyTimetable.
Mode of instruction
- Seminars.
Class attendance is required.
Assessment method
Assessment
#### Weighing
The final mark will be determined by the weighted average.
| Partial Assessment | Weighing |
|---|---|
| Paired Group Presentations | 25 % |
| Final Reseearch Assignment | 65 % |
| Weekly Questions of the Readings brought to and posed in Class Discussion | 10 % |
Resit
Resit will be available to students who have completed all other coursework except the final research essay and must be submitted by the official resit deadline. The resit assignment will be the completion of the final essay assignment through Brightspace and will receive feedback as other final essay assignments do within two workweeks after the reset deadline. Resit assignment will be worth 65% of the course grade.
Inspection and feedback
How and when an exam review will take place will be disclosed together with the publication of the exam results at the latest. If a student requests a review within 30 days after publication of the exam results, an exam review will have to be organized.
Reading list
Required reading materials will be made available through Brightspace.
Registration
Enrolment through MyStudyMap is mandatory.
General information about course and exam enrolment is available on the website.
Contact
For substantive questions, contact the lecturer listed in the information bar on the right.
For questions about enrolment, admission, etc, contact the Education Administration Office: Huizinga.