ANKARA UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF LETTERS
Department of Philosophy

THE DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY

The philosophy department offers undergraduate and graduate programs. Undergraduate program presents courses in the history of philosophy, problems of philosophy and history of science and philosophy. Offered elective courses also allow the students flexibility in tailoring individualized program of study and provide a basic for further studies in social sciences and humanities as well as an understanding of the foundations of natural science and its place in the modern world. The students are expected to have acquired and demonstrated the following outcomes by the end of the program:  

Knowledge:

Students will be able to:
-demonstrate knowledge of some major philosophers and schools of thought.
-demonstrate knowledge of some of the main concepts in philosophy and their definitions.
-demonstrate knowledge of a variety of methods of philosophical inquiry.
-demonstrate knowledge of terminology and main techniques used in formal and informal logic.
-demonstrate knowledge of examples of philosophical explanations taken from philosophical and scientific texts.   

Skills:

Students will be able to:
-demonstrate imaginative, creative and reflective abilities by articulating philosophical insights.
-detect fallacies and evaluate arguments by assessing validity and soundness and the relevance of conclusions to premises.
-demonstrate reasoned argument to support their views, articulate counter arguments to their own positions.
-present effectively in writing an extended argument on a topic of philosophical significance.

Values:

Students will be able to:
-reflect on their intellectual and intuitive responses to issues concerning values.
-demonstrate growth in intellectual curiosity and the ability to reflect by posing wide-ranging and probing questions.
-recognize that there are alternative approaches to apprehending truth and reality.
-demonstrate openness and intellectual humility by approaching situations involving a conflict of views in a spirit of inquiry.


The department consists of 11 full-time members. There are currently 160 undergraduate students and about 30 graduate students.