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Jan 18, 2025
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PHIL 325 - Problems in Philosophy of History (3 units)
Discussion of historical methods, the idea of progress and meaning in history.
Prerequisite(s): 3 credits in philosophy.
Grading Basis: Graded
Units of Lecture: 3
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. state a thesis about a problem in the philosophy of history, and provide evidence and philosophical argument (including replies to counter-arguments) in its defense.
2. explicate concepts that are central to philosophical writing on history.
3. distinguish better and worse reasoning, and recognize conceptual relationships, in philosophical or historiographical texts that raise issues in the philosophy of history.
4. show what is at stake in an abstract debate in the philosophy of history, and indicate how the debate the relevant to the theory or practice of historians.
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