- Department: Philosophy
- Module co-ordinator: Dr. David Worsley
- Credit value: 20 credits
- Credit level: H
- Academic year of delivery: 2019-20
This module uses the concepts, views, and arguments in analytic philosophy to clarify philosophical problems raised by Islamic theology, to offer solutions to those problems, and to evaluate those solutions using a cost/benefit analysis.
Occurrence | Teaching cycle |
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A | Spring Term 2019-20 |
Subject Content
Academic and Graduate Skills
To develop students' abilities to apply philosophical concepts, views, and arguments, in order to advance the understanding of intellectual problems.
Subject Content
By the end of this module you should be able to explain
You should then be able to evaluate these solutions using a cost/benefit analysis with reference to Scripture (the Quran), tradition (the differing schools of Islam), and reason (philosophical, scientific, and other secular sources of knowledge). Finally, you should be able to argue for your preferred solution, or that there is no satisfactory solution.
Academic and graduate skills
By the end of this module you should be able to explain the concepts, views, and arguments of theological and philosophical material, critically engage with these concepts, views, and arguments, and defend your own view on these matters.
This module examines key claims in Islamic theology that raise philosophical problems. These include:
In this module, students will use the concepts, views, and arguments of analytic philosophy
Task | Length | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework Essay |
N/A | 100 |
None
The Formative essay will be submitted on Friday of Week 7.
The Formative essay plan will be submitted on Monday of Week 10.
Task | Length | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework Essay |
N/A | 100 |
Students will receive feedback on the 1500-word essay two weeks after they submit it.
Students will receive feedback on the essay plan during office hours in Week 10 (at least six office hours will be offered).
Students will receive feedback on the 4000-word summative assessment and re-assessment four weeks after they submit it.
Oliver Leaman, Controversies in Contemporary Islam (Routledge, 2013)
Oliver Leaman, Islamic Philosophy: An Introduction (Polity, 2009)
Anthony Robert Booth, Analytic Islamic Philosophy (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017)
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