Text Analysis II

6 ECTS credits
150 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 1021085ANW for working students in the 2nd semester of odd academic years (e.g. 2013-2014) at a (A) Bachelor - preliminary level.

Semester

biennial: 2nd semester of an odd academic year (e.g. 2013-2014)

Enrollment based on exam contract

Impossible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Enrollment Requirements

NOTE: registration for this course is only possible for working students. Day students can register for courses whose code ends with an R. At Inschrijven / studentenadministratie@vub.be you must be registered at the VUB as a working student for the current academic year.

Taught in

Dutch

Faculty

Faculty of Languages & Humanities

Department

History, Archaeology, Arts, Philosophy and Ethics

Educational team

Steffen Ducheyne (course titular)

Activities and contact hours

12 contact hours Lecture
40 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
100 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study

Course Content

In this course, a number of important texts by the Scottish empiricist and Enlightenment philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) will occupy centre-stage. The focus will be on the epistemological views he developed in his ‘An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding’ (1748) and on his views on religion in his posthumously published ‘Dialogues concerning Natural Religion’ (1779). The connections between his epistemological views and his views on religion will also be explored.

The course material comprises the primary texts David Hume, ‘An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding’, in: Stephen Buckle (ed.), Hume: An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding and Other Writings (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 1-144 and David Hume, ‘Dialogues concerning Natural Religion’ in: Dorothey Coleman (ed.), Dialogues concerning Natural Religion and Other Writings (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 2-102. State-of-the-art literature will be read in combination with these primary texts.

Additional info

These primary texts will be supplemented with recent secondary literature. The primary and secondary literature as well as the slides can be found on the CANVAS space of this course unit, which will be used as the communication tool between the lecturer and the students and which must be followed closely by the students. Slides are added weekly.

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

- The student is able to adequately explain David Hume’s epistemological position as well as his views on religion.

- The student can explicate and critically evaluate the key arguments David Hume introduced in ‘An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding’ and in ‘Dialogues concerning Natural Religion’.

- The student can develop a historically contextualised philosophical analysis of David Hume’s ‘An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding’ and ‘Dialogues concerning Natural Religion’.

- The student is able to pinpoint the relevant philosophical and religious background to David Hume’s epistemological views and to his views on religion.

- More specifically, the student can show that he or she as acquired the four abovementioned competences in the form of a paper.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
SELF Paper determines 100% of the final mark.

Within the SELF Paper category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Paper with a relative weight of 80 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

The score obtained on the paper determines 100% of the total grade.

The use of generative AI is permitted for certain purposes, to wit (1) for the purpose of correcting spelling and (2) for the purpose of brain storm tool for formulating research questions. Such uses of generative AI must be properly acknowledged. For purposes other than (1) and (2) the use of generative AI is not permitted.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark

The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context