Senior Philosophy Seminar: Embodied Decentring

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Cursusdoel

After completing the course students are able to:
  • Read philosophical texts from different world traditions that highlight a key concept, related to decentring, that the students might be unfamiliar with; look independently for primary texts that support (or not) the claims made in such texts, and for other texts towards integration of frameworks and arguments that advance our understanding of the topic under discussion;
  • Explicitly articulate assumptions (disciplinary and not), frameworks and other starting points from which different kinds of knowledge, including one’s own, arise —and attempt to integrate such starting points with other starting points, towards building a philosophical argument —orally and in writing;
  • Write well-structured and well-argued texts, centred around a clear research question or thesis, paying attention to fundamental assumptions, definitions of words, different types of arguments and methodologies at work in the texts under discussion;
  • Recognize and articulate, both individually and in dialogue with others, —by means of concrete examples in the papers and discussions and explicit reflections through the course— the relevance of one's readings and writings to one’s life in the 21st century, both as individual and as a member of multiple communities;
  • Value diversity: appreciate how differences in assumptions, embodiments, cultures, values and other aspects of intersectionals identities —both of the people in class and of the authors of the readings— lead to different kinds of knowledge that contribute to our joint understanding of reality, self-cultivation and transformation of society.
Relationship between assessment and learning goals:
Mid-term paper
Required | Weight 30% | ECTS 2.25 | Aims: 1,2,3,5
Final assignment
Required | Weight 30% | ECTS 2.25 | Aims: 1,2,3,4,5
Discussion boards, peer-feedback, presentations, reflections
Required | Weight 40% | ECTS 3 | Aims: 1,2,3,4,5

Vakinhoudelijk

Intended for students with a specific interest in advanced research and an eye towards post-graduate studies in philosophy, the Senior Philosophy Seminar is designed to meet the needs of students who wish to reach a greater depth in philosophical studies. The Seminar relies on the expertise of a rotating variety of teachers at University College.

Topic spring 2025: Embodied Decentring. Key concepts in world philosophies, towards thinking together.

The leitmotif of the course is that developing open, caring academic and non-academic communities requires decentring. Decentring involves not only awareness of where our knowledge comes from and epistemic humility, but also the embodied capacity to listen to others while being present in the same room and the desire to transform it in a shared space. It also requires the wish to learn how to take on the roles of host and guest, and learn to advance our understanding of any given topic in dialogue with others and different kinds of texts.

This is not an introductory course to world philosophies: it does not introduce how the main philosophical questions have been answered in various world philosophical traditions. It always starts from a concept —belonging to Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Islamic, African, Ancient Greek, Indigenous or modern European frameworks— that helps us understand decentring, by zooming in on one of these three aspects: Embodied cultivation; Epistemic humility; and Relationality. In this class we become acquainted, value and practise these three aspects of embodied decentring, always starting from a concept that help us understand the role of the body, of the virtue of epistemic humility, and of dialogue with different others, towards self-cultivation, advancing knowledge and co-creating an open society. All students who have taken a level 2 philosophy course are welcome to this course, whether or not they have been exposed to different philosophical traditions than the Western: the authors of the chapters of Key Concepts in World Philosophies (the starting point of the course), write for an audience that might not be acquainted with the tradition from which their concept comes from. However, familiarity with philosophical methodology is required.

Format

In the first part of the course, students will present their selected chapters from Key Concepts in World Philosophies, accompanied by primary texts they deem relevant.
In the second part, they will accompany their selected aspect of embodied decentring with readings of their choice from any tradition and approach they might regard relevant to what they want to study, e.g. phenomenology, standpoint epistemology, philosophy of disability, critical race theory, queer theory, feminist philosophy of science etc.
Guest lectures will help us embody decentring, closing the distance between our own body and mind and between “me” and others. I will offer interactive lectures throughout the course.

Werkvormen

UCU hum 3 course

Toetsing

Paper 1

Verplicht | Weging 30% | ECTS 2,25

Paper 2

Verplicht | Weging 30% | ECTS 2,25

Discussions, presentations, reflections

Verplicht | Weging 40% | ECTS 3

*midterm FEEDBACK*

Niet verplicht

Ingangseisen en voorkennis

Voertalen

  • Engels

Cursusmomenten

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Tentamens

Er is geen tentamenrooster beschikbaar voor deze cursus

Verplicht materiaal

Materiaal Omschrijving
BOEK Flavel, S. and Robbiano, C. eds., 2023. Key concepts in world philosophies: a toolkit for philosophers. Bloomsbury Publishing. Also available via UU library: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uunl/detail.action?docID=7132604
READER Readings on Blackboard

Aanbevolen materiaal

Er is geen informatie over de aanbevolen literatuur bekend

Opmerkingen

Alternates with UCHUMPHI33 and UCHUMPHI35 Topic changes every time

Coördinator

dr. C. Robbiano c.robbiano@uu.nl

Docenten

dr. C. Robbiano c.robbiano@uu.nl

Inschrijving

Let op: deze cursus is niet toegankelijk voor studenten van andere faculteiten, bijvakkers mogen zich dus niet inschrijven.

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