Methodology of philosophical research

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Course ID:	WF-R-FI-SD-MET
Erasmus code / ISCED:	08.1 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0223) Philosophy and ethics The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	Methodology of philosophical research
Name in Polish:	Metodyka prowadzenia badań naukowych z filozofii
Organizational unit:	Institute of Philosophy
Course groups:
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	Polish
Subject level:	intermediate
Learning outcome code/codes:	SD_Fl_W01 SD_Fl_W03 SD_Fl_W06 SD_Fl_U06 SD_Fl_U07 SD_Fl_K01 SD_Fl_K04
Short description:	This seminar is aimed at helping PhD student to prepare their first academic publications. Ech participant will be working on their own projects connected to their general PhD projects. On meeting we will be discussing step by step the methodological aspects of their work in progress.
Full description:	This seminar is aimed at helping PhD student to prepare their first academic publications. Ech participant will be working on their own projects connected to their general PhD projects. On meeting we will be discussing step by step the methodological aspects of their work in progress. Stages of work on publication 1. Identifying the object od study 2. Identifying and justifying the problem 3. Casting the problem in form of a question (questions) 4. Refering to existing solutions. 5. Formulating hypotheses 6. Providing arguments fr the hypotheses 7. Discussing possible criticism 8. Forming final conclutions and outlining further research Some of these points may not be pertinent to all projects, but participants will be asked to apply as many as they reasonably can and to justify omitting some of them if they do so.
Bibliography:	There is no general readings for this course. Each participant is working on their own projects and relevant literature.
Efekty kształcenia i opis ECTS:	Knowledge: The participants are building a sufficient basis of knowledge - rich enough to reflect the state of art in relevant domain. Especially they know the latest publication in the corresponding fields. Skills: The participants can use all available sources of scientific information in order to arrive at the diagnosis of current problems and state of research. They can critically examine classic and recent publications. They can see apparent and flawed argumentations as well as semantically defective statements. They can formulate cognitive goals - both short and long-term ones. Competences: The participants acquire a reliable disposition to provide clear argumentation in philosophical discussions. Their attitude to the texts is critical, problems-oriented. They also have the readiness to take self-critical stance.
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	The method: 1. the analysis of paramount publications in relevant fields as well as learning about the standards of publications in leading scholarly journals 2. individual research, extending scholarship relating to individual projects 3. presenting partial results on the seminars 4. submitting the fragments of the works in progress for group discussion The main assessment criterion is to submit complete or nearly complete article. Participation in seminar discussion as well as regular presentations one’s partial results will also be an important consideration.

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