COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE IN ISLAM

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TIS 5165 PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE IN ISLAM ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Basic Islamic Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR OSMAN BILEN

Offered to

Basic Islamic Sciences

Course Objective

To show the connections and relations between religious sciences and making theoretical integration among them; therefore, to provide those who is researching in these fields to get benefits from philosophy and ability to make objective and analytical criticism; to help them in protecting their objectivity and scientific attitudes in a highest level

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Student, at the end of the semester, will understand the relation between philosophy and social sciences
2   .They will understand the relation between philosophy and religious sciences.
3   They will see and compare that how these religious sciences take the problem which he is researching
4   They will see the scientific level of their research

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Science and common sense as conceptualised terms.
2 Common sense and its contribution to the science.2
3 Common sense as a cause of prejudices..
4 Science and ethics as terms..
5 Science and ethics in terms of their goals..
6 Philosophy and common sense, and common sense's philosophical values..
7 Midterm.
8 Common sense and religion..
9 Common sense as misleaders in religion..
10 Religion, language, and philosophy..
11 .Philosophy and religious language.
12 Philosophical language and daily language..
13 Those problems above and their contribution to the science..
14 Social being area. General assessment of scientific criteria..

Recomended or Required Reading

1. The books in philosophy of sciences.
2. Introductory books in philosophy.
3. H. P. Rickman, Anlama ve Insan Bilimleri, Ankara, 1992.
4. The books in history of science.
5. And other philosophy of language books
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Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecturing, research, question answer, studying on examples, homework and practice....

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FCG* 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST* 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

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Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

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Office Hours

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Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 9 126
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 174

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7
LO.13
LO.22
LO.32
LO.42