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FILS1 The Area of Specialisation 20 ECTS
Organised by
Degree Programme in Philosophy
Corresponding course units in the curriculum
School of Social Sciences and Humanities
Curricula 2015 – 2017

Learning outcomes

After completing the study module students master the subfields of philosophy that they have chosen for their fields of specialization. They can critically evaluate and participate in the discussion that is going on in those fields.

Contents

A student chooses one field of the six alternatives, on which he or she focuses and in which he or she prepares his or her master’s thesis. In addition, the student takes courses in at least one subfield of philosophy that is different from the main subfield.

The sub-fields are

FILS1a Modern and Contemporary Philosophy
FILS1b History of Logic, Philosophical Logic, and Philosophy of Language
FILS1c Metaphysics and Philosophy of Mind
FILS1d Epistemology and Philosophy of Science
FILS1e Ethics and Social Philosophy
FILS1f Philosophy of Culture and Art

Modes of study

Option 1
Available for:
  • Degree Programme Students
  • Other Students
  • Open University Students
  • Doctoral Students
  • Exchange Students
FILS1a Varhaismoderni, moderni ja nykyajan filosofia  Essay 
In Finnish
Study materials 

Esimerkkejä alueeseen liittyvistä yleisteoksista:

Martinich et al. (eds.) 2006. Early Modern Philosophy: Essential Readings with Commentary. Wiley-Blackwell.

Radcliffe et al. (eds.) 2007. Late Modern Philosophy: Essential Readings with Commentary. Wiley-Blackwell.

Rutherford, D. (ed.) 2006. The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Philosophy.

Beaney, M. (ed.) 2007. The Analytic Turn. Routledge.

Beaney, M. (ed.) 2013. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Analytic Philosophy. O.U.P.

Coffa, J. Alberto (Wessels, Linda (ed.)). 1991. The Semantic Tradition From Kant to Carnap. To the Vienna Station. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Critchley, Simon & Schroeder, William R. (eds.). 1998. A Companion to Continental Philosophy. Oxford: Cambridge.

Cutrofello, Andrew. 2005. Continental Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction. Oxford: Routledge.

Floyd, Juliette & Shieh, Sanford (eds.). 2001. Future Pasts: The Analytic Philosophy in the Twentieth Century. New York: Oxford University Press.

Glock, Hans-Johann. 2008. What is Analytic Philosophy? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Grondin, Jean 1995. Sources of Hermeneutics. SUNY.

Luft, Sebastian & Overgaard, Søren (eds.) 2012. The Routledge Companion to Phenomenology. London: Routledge.

Martinich, A.P. & Sosa, David (eds.) 2001. A Companion to Analytic Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell.

Moran, Dermot & Mooney, Timothy (eds.) 2002. The Phenomenology Reader. London: Routledge.

Soames, Scott. 2003. Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Vols 1-2. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Williams, Caroline. 2001. Contemporary French Philosophy. London: The Athlone Press.

Evaluation 
Numeric 1-5. 
Further information 

Opintojakso voidaan suorittaa esseillä, soveltuvilla luennoilla ja työseminaareilla sekä kirjatenteillä.
Jokaisesta suorituksesta on käytävä erikseen etukäteen sopimassa vastaavan opettajan kanssa.

FILS1b Logiikan historia, filosofinen logiikka ja kielifilosofia  Essay 
In Finnish
Study materials 

Esimerkkejä alueeseen liittyvistä yleisteoksista:

Brown, J. & Cappelen, H. (eds.) 2014. Assertion. O.U.P.

Devitt, M. & Hanley, R.  (eds.) 2006. The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Language.

Goble, Lou (ed.) 2001. The Blackwell Guide to Philosophical Logic.

Graff Fara, D. & Russell, G. 2012. The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language. 

Haaparanta, Leila (ed.). 2009. The Development of Modern Logic. New York: Oxford University Press.

Jacquette, Dale (ed.). 2002. Philosophy of Logic. Oxford: Blackwell.

Kneale, William & Kneale, Martha. 1962 (1984). The Development of Logic. Clarendon Press: Oxford.

Kallestrup, J. 2012. Semantic Externalism. Routledge. 

Lepore, Ernest & Smith, Barry C. (eds.). 2006. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language. Oxford: Clarendon.

Loux, Michael J. (ed.). 1979. The Possible and the Actual: readings in the Metaphysics of Modality. Ithaca: Cornell.

Milgram, Elijah (ed.). 2011. Varieties of Practical Reasoning. Cambrige: The MIT Press.

Mohanty, J.N. 1999. Logic, Truth and the Modalities: From a Phenomenological Perspective. Dordrecht: Springer.

Shapiro, Stewart  (ed.) 2005. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic. O.U.P.

Szabo Z. G. (ed.)  2005. Semantics versus Pragmatics. Oxford University Press.

Williamson, Timothy 2013. Modal Logic as Metaphysics. O.U.P. 

Evaluation 
Numeric 1-5. 
Further information 

Opintojakso voidaan suorittaa esseillä, soveltuvilla luennoilla ja työseminaareilla sekä kirjatenteillä.
Jokaisesta suorituksesta on käytävä erikseen etukäteen sopimassa vastaavan opettajan kanssa.

FILS1c Metafysiikka ja mielenfilosofia  Essay 
In Finnish
Study materials 

Aristoteles.  1990. Metafysiikka. Helsinki: Gaudeamus.

Bird, Alexander 2009. Nature’s Metaphysics: Laws and Properties. O.U.P.

Chalmers, David (ed.). 2002. Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Chalmers, David  1996. The Conscious Mind. New York: Oxford University Press.

Divers, John 2002. Possible worlds. Routledge.

Haaparanta, Leila & Koskinen, Heikki J. (eds.) 2012. Categories of Being: Essays on Metaphysics and Logic. New York: Oxford University Press.

Heidegger, Martin. 1927. Sein und Zeit (engl. Being and Time; suom. Oleminen ja Aika).

Kant, Immanuel. 1783. Prolegomena (engl., suom.)

Kim, Jaegwon & Sosa, Ernest (eds.) 1999. Metaphysics. Oxford: Blackwell.

Ladyman, James & Ross, Don 2009. Every Thing Must Go. O.U.P.

Loux, Michael J. (ed.). Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings. Routledge.

Loux, Michael J. & Zimmerman, Dean W. (eds.) 2003. The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics. New York: Oxford University Press.

Maudlin, Tim 2007. The Metaphysics within Physics. O.U.P.

Menary, Richard (ed.). 2010. The Extended Mind. Cambridge: The MIT Press.

Sider, T., Hawthorne, J. & Zimmerman, D. W. (eds.) 2008. Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics. Blackwell. 

Szabó Gendler, Tamar and Hawthorne, John (eds.). 2002. Conceivability and Possibility. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Tahko, Tuomas (ed.) 2011. Contemporary Aristotelian Metaphysics. Cambridge U.P.

Walter, Sven, Beckermann, Ansgar & MacLaughlin, Brian (eds.). 2009. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Evaluation 
Numeric 1-5. 
Further information 

Opintojakso voidaan suorittaa esseillä, soveltuvilla luennoilla ja työseminaareilla sekä kirjatenteillä.

Jokaisesta suorituksesta on käytävä erikseen etukäteen sopimassa vastaavan opettajan kanssa.

FILS1d Epistemologia ja tieteenfilosofia  Essay 
In Finnish
Study materials 

Esimerkkejä alueeseen liittyvistä yleisteoksista:

Bailer-Jones, Daniela. 2009. Scientific Models in Philosophy of Science. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.

Curd, M.  & Cover, J.A. (eds.) 1998. Philosophy of Science. The Central Issues. W. W. Norton.

Dancy, Jonathan, Sosa, Ernest & Steup, Matthias. 2010. A Companion to Epistemology. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

Gertler, B. (ed.) 2003. Privileged Access: Philosophical Accounts of Self-Knowledge. Ashgate.

Guala, Francesco & Steel, Daniel (eds.). 2010. The Philosophy of Social Science Reader. New York: Routledge.

Hendricks, Vincent F. 2006.  Mainstream and Formal Epistemology. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Kornblith, Hilary (ed.). Epistemology: Internalism and Externalism.

Kourany, Janet. 2010. Philosophy of Science after Feminism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Mele,  Alfred R. and Rawling, Piers. 2004. The Oxford Handbook of Rationality. New York: Oxford University Press.

Moser, Paul K. (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Epistemology.

Nersessian, Nancy. 2008. Creating Scientific Concepts. Cambridge: The MIT Press.

Neta, R. & Pritchard, D. (eds.) 2008. Arguing about Knowledge. Routledge.

Psillos, Stathis 2002. Causation and Explanation. Acumen.

Sosa, Ernest 2011. Knowing Full Well. Princeton U.P.

Sosa, E. , Kim, J., Fantl, J. & McGrath, M.  (toim.), Epistemology: An Anthology,  2nd edition. Wiley-Blackwell. 

Stanford, P. Kyle. 2010. Exceeding Our Grasp: Science, History and the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Sterlny, Kim &   Griffiths 1999. Sex and Death. An Introduction to Philosophy of Biology. University of Chicigo Press. 

Steup, M., Turri, J.  & Sosa E. (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Epistemology. 2nd edition. Wiley-Blackwell.

Williamson, Timothy. 2000. Knowledge and Its Limits. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Woodward, James. 2003. Making Things Happen: A Theory of Causal Explanation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Wray, K. Brad. 2011. Kuhn’s Evolutionary Social Epistemology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Ylikoski, Petri & Kokkonen, Tomi. 2009. Evoluutio ja ihmisluonto. Helsinki: Gaudeamus.

Evaluation 
Numeric 1-5. 
Further information 

Opintojakso voidaan suorittaa esseillä, soveltuvilla luennoilla ja työseminaareilla sekä kirjatenteillä.

Jokaisesta suorituksesta on käytävä erikseen etukäteen sopimassa vastaavan opettajan kanssa.

FILS1e Etiikka ja yhteiskuntafilosofia  Essay 
In Finnish
Study materials 

Kohdassa voi tenttiä esimerkiksi:

a) etiikan klassikkoteoksia (Aristoteles, Nikomakoksen Etiikka; Kant, Siveysopilliset pääteokset; Smith, Moraalituntojen teoria; Sidgwick, Methods of Ethics; Nietzsche, Moraalin alkuperästä), ja etiikan historiaa koskevia teoksia kuten Schneewind, The Invention of Autonomy;

b) normatiivisen etiikan kysymyksiä (T.M. Scanlon, What We Owe to Each Other; Derek Parfit, On What Matters; Mark Timmons, toim. Disputed Moral Issues. A Reader. 3rd Edition);

c) metaetiikkaa, käytännöllistä järkeä ja normatiivisuutta koskevia teoksia (Joseph Raz, From Normativity to Responsibility; Alan Miller, An Introduction to Contemporary Metaethics; Russ Shafer-Landau, Moral Realism; Mark Schroeder, Noncognitivism in Ethics; Derek Parfit, On What Matters 2).

Kohdassa voi myös tenttiä:

d) yhteiskuntafilosofian klassikkoteoksia (Platon, Valtio; Aristoteles, Politiikka; Hobbes, Leviathan; Hume, Esseitä; Rousseau, Yhteiskuntasopimuksesta;  Locke, Tutkielma hallitusvallasta; Hegel, Oikeusfilosofian pääpiirteet; Marx, Taloudellis-filosofiset käsikirjoitukset);

e) normatiivisen poliittisen teorian nykyteorioita (John Rawls, Justice as Fairness: A Restatement; Iris Marion Young, Justice and the Politics of Difference; Martha Nussbaum, Creating Capabilities; Axel Honneth, Freedom's Right; G.E. Cohen, Rescuing Justice and Equality; Amartya Sen, The Idea of Justice);

f) jotain erityiskysymystä kuten ekologiaa tai ilmastonmuutosta koskevia kirjoja (Elizabeth Cripps, Climate Change and the Moral Agent. Individual Duties in an Interdependent World; Andrew Dobson & Robyn Eckersley, toim. 2006. Political Theory and the Ecological Challenge;

g) sosiaalisen ontologian teorioita (John Searle, Construction of Social Reality; Margaret Gilbert, Joint Commitment; Sally Haslanger, Resisting Reality; Alfred Schütz: Sosiaalisen maailman merkityksekäs rakentuminen), tai:

h) jotain osa-aluetta kuten taloutta yhteiskuntafilosofisesti tarkastelevia teoksia (David Harvey, Seventeen contradictions and the end of capitalism; John O’Neill, The Market; Elizabeth Anderson, Value in Ethics and Economics).

Evaluation 
Numeric 1-5. 
Further information 

Opintojakso voidaan suorittaa esseillä, soveltuvilla luennoilla ja työseminaareilla sekä kirjatenteillä.

Jokaisesta suorituksesta on käytävä erikseen etukäteen sopimassa vastaavan opettajan kanssa.

FILS1f Kulttuuri- ja taiteenfilosofia  Essay 
In Finnish
Study materials 

Esimerkkejä alueeseen liittyvistä yleisteoksista:

Adorno, Theodor & Horkheimer, Max (2008; 1. painos 1944) Valistuksen dialektiikka. Tampere: Vastapaino.

Benhabib, Seyla. 2002. The Claims of Culture. Equality and Diversity in the Global Era. Princeton (N.J.): Princeton University Press.

Cassirer, Ernst. (1992, 1. painos 1944) An Essay on Man. An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press.

Cazeaux, Clive. 2000. The Continental Aesthetics Reader. London: Routledge.

Gadamer, Hans-Georg 1960. Truth and Method. London: Sheed & Ward.

Hamilton, Andy. 2007. Aesthetics and Music. Continuum.

John, Eileen and McIver Lopes, Dominic. 2004. The Philosophy of Literature: Contemporary and Classic Readings - An Anthology (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies). Malden (Mass.): Wiley-Blackwell.

Levinson, Jerrold. 2005. The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

McKinnon, Catriona. 2006. Toleration. A Critical Introduction. London: Routledge.

Evaluation 
Numeric 1-5. 
Further information 

Opintojakso voidaan suorittaa esseillä, soveltuvilla luennoilla ja työseminaareilla sekä kirjatenteillä.

Jokaisesta suorituksesta on käytävä erikseen etukäteen sopimassa vastaavan opettajan kanssa.

Option 2
Available for:
  • Degree Programme Students
  • Other Students
  • Open University Students
  • Doctoral Students
  • Exchange Students
FILS1a Early Modern, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy  Essay 
In English
Study materials 

Martinich et al. (eds.) 2006. Early Modern Philosophy: Essential Readings with Commentary. Wiley-Blackwell.

Radcliffe et al. (eds.) 2007. Late Modern Philosophy: Essential Readings with Commentary. Wiley-Blackwell.

Rutherford, D. (ed.) 2006. The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Philosophy.

Beaney, M. (ed.) 2007. The Analytic Turn. Routledge.

Beaney, M. (ed.) 2013. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Analytic Philosophy. O.U.P.

Coffa, J. Alberto (Wessels, Linda (ed.)). 1991. The Semantic Tradition From Kant to Carnap. To the Vienna Station. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Critchley, Simon & Schroeder, William R. (eds.). 1998. A Companion to Continental Philosophy. Oxford: Cambridge.

Cutrofello, Andrew. 2005. Continental Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction. Oxford: Routledge.

Floyd, Juliette & Shieh, Sanford (eds.). 2001. Future Pasts: The Analytic Philosophy in the Twentieth Century. New York: Oxford University Press.

Glock, Hans-Johann. 2008. What is Analytic Philosophy? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Grondin, Jean 1995. Sources of Hermeneutics. SUNY.

Luft, Sebastian & Overgaard, Søren (eds.) 2012. The Routledge Companion to Phenomenology. London: Routledge.

Martinich, A.P. & Sosa, David (eds.) 2001. A Companion to Analytic Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell.

Moran, Dermot & Mooney, Timothy (eds.) 2002. The Phenomenology Reader. London: Routledge.

Soames, Scott. 2003. Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Vols 1-2. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Williams, Caroline. 2001. Contemporary French Philosophy. London: The Athlone Press.

Evaluation 
Numeric 1-5. 
Further information 

The study module can be done in parts with essays, lectures, seminars or book examinations.

FILS1b History of Logic, Philosophical Logic, and Philosphy of Language  Essay 
In English
Study materials 

Brown, J. & Cappelen, H. (eds.) 2014. Assertion. O.U.P.

Devitt, M. & Hanley, R.  (eds.) 2006. The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Language.

Goble, Lou (ed.) 2001. The Blackwell Guide to Philosophical Logic.

Graff Fara, D. & Russell, G. 2012. The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language. 

Haaparanta, Leila (ed.). 2009. The Development of Modern Logic. New York: Oxford University Press.

Jacquette, Dale (ed.). 2002. Philosophy of Logic. Oxford: Blackwell.

Kneale, William & Kneale, Martha. 1962 (1984). The Development of Logic. Clarendon Press: Oxford.

Kallestrup, J. 2012. Semantic Externalism. Routledge. 

Lepore, Ernest & Smith, Barry C. (eds.). 2006. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language. Oxford: Clarendon.

Loux, Michael J. (ed.). 1979. The Possible and the Actual: readings in the Metaphysics of Modality. Ithaca: Cornell.

Milgram, Elijah (ed.). 2011. Varieties of Practical Reasoning. Cambrige: The MIT Press.

Mohanty, J.N. 1999. Logic, Truth and the Modalities: From a Phenomenological Perspective. Dordrecht: Springer.

Shapiro, Stewart  (ed.) 2005. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic. O.U.P.

Szabo Z. G. (ed.)  2005. Semantics versus Pragmatics. Oxford University Press.

Williamson, Timothy 2013. Modal Logic as Metaphysics. O.U.P. 

Evaluation 
Numeric 1-5. 
Further information 

The study module can be done in parts with essays, lectures, seminars or book examinations.

FILS1c Metaphysics and Philosophy of Mind  Essay 
In English
Study materials 

Aristotle: Metaphysics.

Chalmers, David (ed.). 2002. Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Chalmers, David.  1996. The Conscious Mind. New York: Oxford University Press.

Haaparanta, Leila & Koskinen, Heikki J. 2012. Categories of Being: Essays on Metaphysics and Logic. New York: Oxford University Press.

Heidegger, Martin. 1927. Sein und Zeit (engl. Being and Time).

Kant, Immanuel. 1783. Prolegomena (engl., suom.)

Kim, Jaegwon &Sosa, Ernest (eds.). 1999. Metaphysics. Oxford: Blackwell.

Loux, Michael J. (ed.). Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings.

Loux, Michael J. & Zimmerman, Dean W. 2003. The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics. New York: Oxford University Press.

Menary, Richard (ed.). 2010. The Extended Mind. Cambridge: The MIT Press.

Szabó Gendler, Tamar and Hawthorne, John (eds.). 2002. Conceivability and Possibility. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Walter, Sven, Beckermann, Ansgar & MacLaughlin, Brian (eds.). 2009. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Evaluation 
Numeric 1-5. 
Further information 

The study module can be done in parts with essays, lectures, seminars or book examinations.

FILS1d Epistemologiy and Philosophy of Science  Essay 
In English
Study materials 

Bailer-Jones, Daniela. 2009. Scientific Models in Philosophy of Science. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.

Curd, M.  & Cover, J.A. (eds.) 1998. Philosophy of Science. The Central Issues. W. W. Norton.

Dancy, Jonathan, Sosa, Ernest & Steup, Matthias. 2010. A Companion to Epistemology. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

Gertler, B. (ed.) 2003. Privileged Access: Philosophical Accounts of Self-Knowledge. Ashgate.

Guala, Francesco & Steel, Daniel (eds.). 2010. The Philosophy of Social Science Reader. New York: Routledge.

Hendricks, Vincent F. 2006.  Mainstream and Formal Epistemology. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Kornblith, Hilary (ed.). Epistemology: Internalism and Externalism.

Kourany, Janet. 2010. Philosophy of Science after Feminism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Mele,  Alfred R. and Rawling, Piers. 2004. The Oxford Handbook of Rationality. New York: Oxford University Press.

Moser, Paul K. (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Epistemology.

Nersessian, Nancy. 2008. Creating Scientific Concepts. Cambridge: The MIT Press.

Neta, R. & Pritchard, D. (eds.) 2008. Arguing about Knowledge. Routledge.

Psillos, Stathis 2002. Causation and Explanation. Acumen.

Sosa, Ernest 2011. Knowing Full Well. Princeton U.P.

Sosa, E. , Kim, J., Fantl, J. & McGrath, M.  (toim.), Epistemology: An Anthology,  2nd edition. Wiley-Blackwell. 

Stanford, P. Kyle. 2010. Exceeding Our Grasp: Science, History and the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Sterlny, Kim &   Griffiths 1999. Sex and Death. An Introduction to Philosophy of Biology. University of Chicigo Press. 

Steup, M., Turri, J.  & Sosa E. (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Epistemology. 2nd edition. Wiley-Blackwell.

Williamson, Timothy. 2000. Knowledge and Its Limits. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Woodward, James. 2003. Making Things Happen: A Theory of Causal Explanation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Wray, K. Brad. 2011. Kuhn’s Evolutionary Social Epistemology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Evaluation 
Numeric 1-5. 
Further information 

The study module can be done in parts with essays, lectures, seminars or book examinations.

FILS1e Ethics and Social Philosophy  Essay 
In English
Study materials 

a) Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics; Kant, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals/The Critique of Pure Reason; Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments; Sidgwick, Methods of Ethics; Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals; Schneewind, The Invention of Autonomy;

b) T.M. Scanlon, What We Owe to Each Other; Derek Parfit, On What Matters; Mark Timmons, toim. Disputed Moral Issues. A Reader. 3rd Edition

c) Joseph Raz, From Normativity to Responsibility; Alan Miller, An Introduction to Contemporary Metaethics; Russ Shafer-Landau, Moral Realism; Mark Schroeder, Noncognitivism in Ethics; Derek Parfit, On What Matters 2

d)  Plato, The Republic; Aristotle, Politics; Hobbes, Leviathan; Hume, Essays; Rousseau, Social Contract;  Locke, Second Treatise on Government; Hegel, Philosophy of Right; Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts

e) John Rawls, Justice as Fairness: A Restatement; Iris Marion Young, Justice and the Politics of Difference; Martha Nussbaum, Creating Capabilities; Axel Honneth, Freedom's Right; G.E. Cohen, Rescuing Justice and Equality; Amartya Sen, The Idea of Justice

f) Elizabeth Cripps, Climate Change and the Moral Agent. Individual Duties in an Interdependent World; Andrew Dobson & Robyn Eckersley, toim. 2006. Political Theory and the Ecological Challenge

g) John Searle, Construction of Social Reality; Margaret Gilbert, Joint Commitment; Sally Haslanger, Resisting Reality

h)  David Harvey, Seventeen contradictions and the end of capitalism; John O’Neill, The Market; Elizabeth Anderson, Value in Ethics and Economics

Evaluation 
Numeric 1-5. 
Further information 

The study module can be done in parts with essays, lectures, seminars or book examinations.

FILS1f Philosophy of Culture and Arts  Essay 
In English
Study materials 

Adorno, Theodor & Horkheimer, Max. 1944. Dialektik der Aufklärung.

Benhabib, Seyla. 2002. The Claims of Culture. Equality and Diversity in the Global Era. Princeton (N.J.): Princeton University Press.

Cassirer, Ernst. (1992, 1. painos 1944) An Essay on Man. An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press.

Cazeaux, Clive. 2000. The Continental Aesthetics Reader. London: Routledge.

Gadamer, Hans-Georg. 1960. Truth and Method. London: Sheed & Ward.

Hamilton, Andy. 2007. Aesthetics and Music. Continuum.

John, Eileen and McIver Lopes, Dominic 2004.  The Philosophy of Literature: Contemporary and Classic Readings - An Anthology (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies). Malden (Mass.): Wiley-Blackwell.

Levinson, Jerrold. 2005. The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

McKinnon, Catriona. 2006. Toleration. A Critical Introduction. London: Routledge.

Evaluation 
Numeric 1-5. 
Further information 

The study module can be done in parts with essays, lectures, seminars or book examinations.

Option 3
Available for:
  • Degree Programme Students
  • Other Students
  • Open University Students
  • Doctoral Students
  • Exchange Students
Participation in course work 
In Finnish

The study module can be done in parts with essays, lectures, seminars or book examinations.
Jokaisesta suorituksesta on käytävä erikseen etukäteen sopimassa vastaavan opettajan kanssa.
Suoritusvaihtoehtojen kohdalla on esimerkkejä eri osa-alueisiin liittyvistä yleisteoksista - opetusohjelmassa annetaan lisää tutkimuskirjallisuutta, jonka valinnasta sovitaan vastuuopettajan kanssa.

Evaluation

Numeric 1-5.

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