This module provides students with a grounding in Kant's philosophy, through detailed study of the Critique of Pure Reason and its competing interpretations. The module presents Kant's critical project as an historical and conceptual basis for the understanding of subsequent European philosophy as a whole.
The aims of this module are to:
Upon successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
The module will focus on:
This module will be taught by means of a mix of lectures and seminars, supplemented by individual tutorials and private study. Emphasis is placed on seminar-based discussion.
Definitive UNISTATS Category | Indicative Description | Hours |
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Scheduled learning and teaching | Seminars/lectures: 10 taught sessions (2.5 hours each) | 25 |
Scheduled learning and teaching | Group and individual tutorials (two scheduled hours plus office hours). | 2 |
Guided independent study | Directed and Independent Learning Total | 273 |
Total (number of credits x 10) | 300 |
The assessment strategy is designed to test a student's ability to meet the module's learning outcomes. Summative assessment involves two pieces of written work:
The skills required to prepare these assessed elements will be developed in a variety of formative activities throughout the module, notably through class discussion, feedback on in-class presentations, and individual tutorials. Preparation of the final essay normally includes a scheduled tutorial with the module tutor.
Learning Outcome | Assessment Strategy |
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Understand several distinctive and fundamental features of Kant's philosophy, in particular his critique of metaphysics, his conception of transcendental argument and transcendental subjectivity, and the logic of Kantian dialectic. | Assessed formatively through class discussion, presentations and tutorials, and summatively through the two pieces of individual written work. |
Demonstrate a critical awareness of major issues in the history of the reception of Kant's work, primarily in a European context. | Assessed formatively through class discussion, presentations and tutorials, and summatively through the two pieces of individual written work. |
Reflect on and discuss problems relating to Kant's philosophical legacy. | Assessed formatively through class discussion, presentations and tutorials, and summatively through the two pieces of individual written work. |
Undertake the work of close textual analysis of a demanding philosophical text. | Assessed formatively through class discussion, presentations and tutorials, and summatively through the two pieces of individual written work. |
Comprehend, reconstruct and interpret philosophical arguments, and situate these arguments in the context of the history of philosophy. | Assessed formatively through class discussion, presentations and tutorials, and summatively through the two pieces of individual written work. |
Description of Assessment | Definitive UNISTATS Categories | Percentage |
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Coursework | Exercises 1500 words | 20 |
Coursework | Essay 3500 to 4000 words | 80 |
Total (to equal 100%) | 100% |
It IS NOT a requirement that any major assessment category is passed separately in order to achieve an overall pass for the module
Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason trans. Guyer and Wood (CUP, 1997)
T. Adorno, Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Stanford University Press, 2001)
H. Allison, Kant's Transcendental Idealism (Yale University Press, 1983; 2004)
K. Ameriks, Kant and the Fate of Autonomy (CUP, 2000)
E. Cassirer, Kant's Life and Thought (Yale University Press, 1981)
H. Caygill, A Kant Dictionary (Blackwell, 1995)
G. Deleuze, Kant's Critical Philosophy (Athlone Press, 1984)
S. Gardner, Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason (Routledge, 1999)
P. Guyer, Kant and the Claims of Knowledge (CUP, 1987)
P. Guyer, Kant (Routledge, 2006)
M. Heidegger, Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics (Indiana University Press, 1990),
M. Heidegger, Phenomenological Interpretation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Indiana University Press, 1990).
B. Longuenesse, Kant and the Capacity to Judge (Princeton UP, 1998).