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Course Name	Turkish	Sanat Felsefesi
	English	Philosophy of Art
Course Code	ITB 226E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	1	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Gürcan Koçan Gürcan Koçan
Course Objectives		To acquaint students with major approaches that have significantly determined the way art is understood. To obtain substantial understanding of the nature of art and its objects . To identify bases of aesthetic experience and attitudes To be able to analyze and evaluate works of art To develop skills in critical reading, thinking and writing
Course Description		This course is an introduction to major arguments in the philosophy of art. The course will involve the close reading of passages from primary philosophical texts. It will focus major philosophical arguments to analyzed will include key ideas of philosophers whose thought embodies the initial attempts to understand the “necessary conditions” of art.
Course Outcomes		By the time of successful completion of the course: Students will have developed an awareness of some of the main themes and issues in philosophy of art Students will have developed the ability to undertake a critical reading of philosophical texts Students will have developed the ability both orally and in writing to critically evaluate positions that are presented to tham by particpating in seminar activities such as exposition of a view and debating the attributes of that view.
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Textbook		Carroll, Noel Philosophy of Art, a Contemporary Introduction (London: Routledge, 1999). Levinson, Jerrold The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetic, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) Lewis Vaughn Writing Philosophy A Student's Guide to Writing Philosophy Essays (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007). Ross, Stephen David Art and Its Significance, An Anthology of Aesthetic Theory, (Albany State University of New York Press, 1994). Steven M. Cahn and Aaron Meskin: Aesthetics: A Comprehensive Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007)
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