Postgraduate Course: Phenomenology: Merleau-Ponty MSc (PHIL11153)
Course Outline
| School | School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | Focusing on the work of Merleau-Ponty, this course will introduce students to the philosophical movement of Phenomenology - an influential research programme that flourished in the early 20th century, and aimed to draw fundamental philosophical conclusions from careful consideration of the structures of experience and thought.
Shared with undergraduate course Phenomenology: Merleau-Ponty PHIL10158.
For courses co-taught with undergraduate students and with no remaining undergraduate spaces left, a maximum of 8 MSc students can join the course. Priority will be given to MSc students who wish to take the course for credit on a first come first served basis after matriculation. |
| Course description |
Syllabus:
Class 1: Introducing Phenomenology: Husserl and his precursors
Class 2: Key concepts from Husserl: Bracketing, anticipation, self-consciousness
Class 3: Introducing the Phenomenology of Perception: Merleau-Ponty contra Husserl
Class 4: 'Empiricism', 'Intellectualism' and the lived body
Class 5: Motor intentionality
Class 6: From moving to meaning: Gesture, language and thought
Class 7: Phenomenology of Perception part II: Merleau-Ponty's metaphysics
Class 8: Phenomeonlogy of Perception part III: Merleau-Ponty's epistemology
Class 9: After the Phenomenology: Aesthetics and ethics
Class 10: What was Phenomenology? Merleau-Ponty, Sartre and Heidegger
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 8 |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 10,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 11,
Revision Session Hours 1,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
174 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
100 %,
Coursework
0 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
A 2500 word final essay [100%].
Essay deadline: Thursday 21st April 2016 by 12 noon.
Word limit: 2750 words maximum (excluding references)
Return deadline: Friday 13th May 2016 |
| Feedback |
- Weekly tutorial groups
- Students have the opportunity to submit a formative essay by week 6 deadline on Turnitin via Learn. The essay cannot be draft of summative essay but it can be on the same topic.
Formative essay deadline: Thursday 25th February 2016 by 12 noon
Return deadline: Friday 18th March 2016
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- demonstrate core skills in philosophy, including the ability to interpret and engage with philosophical texts, to evaluate arguments, and to develop one's own critical ideas in response.
- understand what is distinctive and important about Phenomenology as a method of philosophical inquiry.
- understand some key concepts in the work of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, including: protention, retention and the anticipatory structure of experience; motor intentionality; the lived body; 'empiricism' and 'intellectualism'
- reflect critically on the relationship between Merleau-Ponty's work and current work in cognitive science, philosophy of mind, epistemology and metaphysics
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Reading List
Required texts:
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice & Landes, Donald A. (2012). Phenomenology of Perception. Routledge.
Romdenh-Romluc, Komarine (2011). Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Merleau-Ponty and Phenomenology of Perception. Routledge.
Indicative bibliography:
Dreyfus, Hubert (2005). Merleau-Ponty and recent cognitive science. In Taylor Carman & Mark B. N. Hansen (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty. Cambridge University Press.
Gardner, Sebastian, Merleau-Ponty's Transcendental Theory of Perception.
Goehr, Lydia (2005). Understanding the Engaged Philosopher: On Politics, Philosophy, and Art. In Taylor Carman & Mark B. N. Hansen (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty. Cambridge University Press. 318--51.
Madary, Michael (2012). Husserl on Perceptual Constancy. European Journal of Philosophy 20 (1):145-165.
Romdenh-Romluc, Komarine (2007). Merleau-ponty's account of hallucination. European Journal of Philosophy 17 (1):76-90.
Romdenh-Romluc, Komarine (2007). Merleau-Ponty and the power to reckon with the possible. In Thomas Baldwin (ed.), Reading Merleau-Ponty: On Phenomenology of Perception. Routledge.
Smith, A. D. (2003). Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Husserl and the Cartesian Meditations. Routledge.
Smith, A. D. (2008). Husserl and externalism. Synthese 160 (3):313 - 333.
Young, Iris Marion (1980). Throwing like a girl: A phenomenology of feminine body comportment motility and spatiality. Human Studies 3 (1):137 - 156.
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Additional Information
| Course URL |
Please see Learn |
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Writing skills, interpreting texts, evaluating arguments and theories |
| Additional Class Delivery Information |
The course will be taught by Dr Dave Ward. |
| Keywords | Phenomenology; Husserl; Merleau-Ponty |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Dave Ward
Tel: (0131 6)50 3652
Email: dave.ward@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Lynsey Buchanan
Tel: (0131 6)51 5002
Email: Lynsey.Buchanan@ed.ac.uk |
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