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Workshop on D. Hume's method of essay writing

ВП.3.01.02

Вибіркова дисципліна для ОП

Second

2023/2024

3 Semester

3

To know: the subject area of the course within the programme in the history of philosophy; means of modern historical and philosophical research; modern methods of philosophy research; paradigms of modern historical and philosophical research; peculiarities of methodologies from the examples of Modern philosophy; methods of Empiricism; methodology of David Hume. To be able to: analyse historical and philosophical sources on Modern philosophy; use methods, tools and techniques from the arsenal of experimental philosophical methodology; Communication: use knowledge of foreign languages; present the results of self-study; use historical and philosophical argumentation in discussions; Autonomy and responsibility: independently search for and critically process literature; participate in the work of professional scientific and methodological seminars on the subject of the course; propose self-defined research topics within the specialisation, argue its relevance.

1. The student must know basic principles of the continuity of historical and philosophical process; principles of periodisation of the history of philosophy; the fundamentals of application of the paradigmatic approach to the analysis of the phenomena of the history of philosophy - identification of the methods of empiricists in the European Modernity of the XVI-XVIII centuries, tools of modern research in the field of history of philosophy. 2. To be able to analyse material, work with texts, master the categorical apparatus of historical and philosophical research; to have the skills to conduct historical and philosophical analysis of the phenomena of the history of philosophy. 3. To form a personal lexicon of the direction in the history of philosophy determined by the programme, to distinguish the main stages of the philosophical and historical and cultural process.

Theme 1: European philosophy of the Modern in the historical, philosophical and cultural process. Terminology of the experimental direction in the development of the philosophy of European Modernity. Theme 2. Experimental history of Francis Bacon. Essay as a genre of philosophical creativity. Theme 3. Development of experimental philosophical methodology in the works of British empiricists. David Hume's essay as a manifestation of experimental philosophy. Topic 4: "A Treatise of Human Nature" by David Hume - the origin of the experimental method of philosophy. Topic 5. Sources of David Hume's experimental way of thinking. Essay writing and the culture of the Republic of Scholarship. Analysing David Hume's essay "On Essay Writing". Topic 6. The experimental environment of David Hume's essays. The structure of the experimental study of human nature. Role tasks of participants in the discussion of a particular topic; Means and ways of presenting personal opinion in a collective discussion. Topic 7. Tools for summarising the results of experimental research in the form of a philosophical essay. Collective and team work on the compilation of the generalised content of the discussion; Collection of essays as the final result of collective research. Final control work.

1. Francis Bacon The New Organon - Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, Cambridge University Press 2000, Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing) 2003. – 254 p. 2. Hume D. (1741). Essays, Moral and Political. Edinburgh, Printed by R. Fleming and A. Alison. Retrieved May 27, 2021 from https://books.google.com.ua/books?id=IHQPAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1&redir_esc=y#v=onepage& q&f=false 3. Hume, D. (1875). Essays, moral, political, and literary. (T.H.Green & T.H.Grose, Eds., Vol.1). London: Longmans, Green & Co. 4. Hume, D. (1990). A Treatise of Human Nature. (L.A.Selby-Bigge, Ed., Repr.from the original ed. in three volumes). Oxford: Clarendon Press

Lecture, seminar, self-study.

Knowledge control is carried out according to the ECTS system. Assessment of semester work: 1. Oral report, combined reproduction, supplementation and participation in seminar discussions -24 / 39 points 2. Self-study (synopsis of texts) - 10 / 20 points 3. Self-study (preparation of abstracts, presentations) - 14 / 21 points The total grade for the semester consists of the points obtained for classroom work (oral presentations, combined reproduction, additions and participation in seminar discussions) and for independent work (work with texts, preparation of abstracts, presentations). All types of work for the semester have a total - a maximum of 80 points - minimum of 48 points Final written test - 12 / 20 points The final number of points in the discipline (maximum 100 points) is determined as the sum of points for systematic work during the semester, taking into account the final test.

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