Type of Credit: Partially Required
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This is a core course for Ph.D. students in the subfield of Political thoughts and history in the Political Science Department. We will examine classic works in comparative politics and incorporate them in the research projects of students.
能力項目說明
This class will divded into two parts: the former one will discusses contemprory key methods on political theoty studies, especially analytic political philosophy, critical theory, and phenomenology; the later one will focus on the dispute between historical contextualism and new realism.
| 教學週次Course Week | 彈性補充教學週次Flexible Supplemental Instruction Week | 彈性補充教學類別Flexible Supplemental Instruction Type |
|---|---|---|
Week 01 Introduction
Week 02 Analytic Political Philosophy
Week 03 Political Philosophy for Earthlings
Week 04 Political Theory, Social Science, and Real Politics
Week 05 The Method of Critique
Week 06 Dialectical Approaches
Week 07 Political Theory and History
Week 08 Political Theory and the Boundaries of Politics
Week 09 Thinking Politically and Thinking about Politics
Week 10 Political Philosophy versus History
Week 11 Rescuing Political Theory from the Tyranny of History
Week 12 From Historical Contextualism, to Mentalism, to Behaviourism
Week 13 Contingency and Judgement in History of Political Philosophy: a Phenomenological Approach
Week 14 Political Philosophy and the Dead Hand of its History
Week 15 Politics, Political Theory and its History
Week 16 Constraint, Freedom, and Exemplar: History and Theory without Teleology
Week 17 Final report
Week 18 Final report
1.Class participation 20%
2.Oral presentation 40%
3.Final report 40%