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Table 2. Course description
*The table needs to be copied for each course
1. GENERAL INFORMATION
1.1. Course teacher
1.2. Name of the course
1.3. Associate teachers
1.4. Study programme (undergraduate,
graduate, integrated)
prof. dr. sc. Pavel Gregorić
George Berkeley, The Principles of
Human Knowledge
1.6. Year of the study programme
–
1.8. Type of instruction (number of hours L
+ S + E + e-learning)
graduate
elective
1.5. Status of the course
4 or 5
5
1.7. Credits (ECTS)
1.9. Expected enrolment in the course
1.10. Level of application of e-learning
(level 1, 2, 3), percentage of online
instruction (max. 20%)
12L+3S
10
0
2. COUSE DESCRIPTION
2.1. Course objectives
2.2. Course enrolment requirements and
entry competences required for the
course
2.3. Learning outcomes at the level of
the programme to which the course
contributes
2.4. Learning outcomes expected at the
level of the course (4 to 10 learning
A thorough reading of a central text of Early Modern Philosophy. Setting Berkeley’s work into the context of philosophical
debates characteristic of Early Modern philosophy. Introduce students to other philosophical works of Berkeley. Bring out the
Berkeley major contributions and points of lasting influence.
Proficiency in English for all (. For students of philosophy at the Center for Croatian Studies: completion of the course "From
Descartes to Kant".
The students will be able to:
- summarize Berkeley contribution to Early Modern Philosophy
- present the main problems and arguments of philosophers who marked the period of Early Modern Philosophy (17th–
18th century)
- contrast the philosophical concerns and methods of Early Modern philosophers with their scholastic predecessors
- explain the difference between Berkeley’s subjective idealism and the objective idealism of Schelling and Hegel
- differentiate types of philosophical skepticism
- indicate points of Berkeley’s relevance for contemporary philosophy
The students will be able to:
enumerate Berkeley's philosophical writings
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2.5. Course content broken down in
detail by weekly class schedule
(syllabus)
2.6. Format of instruction:
2.8. Student responsibilities
2.9. Screening student work (name the
proportion of ECTS credits for each
activity so that the total number of
-
state the basic biographic facts about Berkeley
explain the intellectual climate of Berkeley’s age
briefly describe Berkeley’s attitude to science
contrast Berkeley’s philosophical position in metaphyiscs and epistemology to that of his leading predecessors and
contemporaries (Descartes, Malebranche, Locke, Newton)
outline points of Berkeley’s criticism of his predecessors and contemporaries
state Berkeley’s contributions to later philosophy, especially his influence on Hume
Week 1.
Presentation of the course: On Berkeley’s life and work.
Week 2.
Cartesian philosophy: doubt and dualism
Week 3.
Empirical philosophy: mind and ideas
Week 4.
Newtonian Science: corpuscular theory, primary qualities and laws of nature
Week 5.
Berkeley’s aim: Introduction to the PHK
Week 6.
The spirit or mind: PHK §1-7
Week 7.
The Likeness Principle and the primary/secondary qualities: §8-15
Week 8.
Critique of materialism: §16-24
Week 9.
The ideas of sense and the existence of God: §25-33
Week 10.
Objections and replies 1: §34-57
Week 11.
Objections and replies 2: §58-84
Week 12.
General advantages of idealism: §85-100
Week 13.
Advantages of idealism for natural science and mathematics: §101-132
Week 14.
The mind and the presence of God: §133-156
Week 15.
Berkeley’s contributions to skepticism
x lectures
independent assignments
x seminars and workshops
multimedia and the internet
x exercises
laboratory
on line in entirety
work with mentor
partial e-learning
x emailed suggestions for thinking
field work
Attendance, class discussion, one quiz, one essay, written exam
1
Class attendance
Research
Experimental work
Report
1
Essay
Seminar essay
2
2.7. Comments:
All course materials will be available in
electronic format
Practical training
Quiz
Discussion
0.5
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ECTS credits is equal to the ECTS
value of the course )
2.10. Grading and evaluating student
work in class and at the final exam
Tests
Written exam
2
Discussion in class 10%
Quiz-tests 10%
Essay 20%
Written exam 60%
Title
George Berkeley, A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, edited by
Jonathan Dancy, Oxford, 1998.
J. Dancy, "Editor's Introduction" in [1], 1-70.
2.11. Required literature (available in the
library and via other media)
(other)
(other)
Oral exam
Project
Number of
copies in the
library
0
D. Rutherford, “Innovation and orthodoxy in early modern philosophy”, in D.
Rutherford (ed.), “The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Philosophy”,
Cambridge, 2006, 11-38.
Availability via
other media
0
Pdf
0
Pdf
J. Bennett, “Locke, Berkeley, Hume: Central Themes”, Oxford, 1971.
2.12. Optional literature (at the time of
submission of study programme
proposal)
J. Bennett, “Learning from Six Philosophers”, vol. 2, Oxford, 2001 (parts, relative to assignments and presentations)
J. O. Urmson, “Berkeley”, Oxford, 1982.
A. J. Ayer, “British Empirical Philosophers: Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Reid, Mill”, London, 1968.
2.13. Quality assurance methods that
ensure the acquisition of exit
competences
2.14. Other (as the proposer wishes to
Student poll organised by the University.
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