Introduction to philosophy

1. COURSE INFORMATION:

School	Environmental Engineering
Course Level	Undergraduate
Course ID	SSCI 104	Semester	6^th
Course Category	Elective
Course Modules	Instruction Hours per Week		ECTS
Lectures	3 Th=3, E=0, L=0		4
Course Type	General Knowledge
Prerequisites
Instruction/Exam Language	Greek
The course is offered to Erasmus students	No
Course URL	https://www.eclass.tuc.gr/courses/MPD278/ (in Greek)

2. LEARNING OUTCOMES

Learning Outcomes

After completing the course, students will be able to:

Understand the basic problems of philosophy.
Discuss some of the basic problems of philosophy and to develop techniques of dialogue and argumentation.

General Competencies/Skills

3. COURSE SYLLABUS

A brief look at the history of philosophy.
From myth to speech.
Basic philosophical concepts, categories and laws of dialectics in the areas of theory of knowledge, ontology and logic (formal and dialectical).
Philosophy, science and technology.
Elements of social philosophy: the structure of the development of society as an organic whole, its social connotations and its forms.
The act of philosophy as a necessary element of the consciousness of personality, self-awareness and self-consciousness of the civilization of each time.

4. INSTRUCTION and LEARNING METHODS - ASSESSMENT

Lecture Method	Direct (face to face)
Use of Information and Communication Technology
Instruction Organisation	Activity	Workload per Semester (hours)
	- Lectures	39
	- Autonomous study	61
	Course Total	100
Assessment Method	Written final examination (100%)

5. RECOMMENDED READING

Book in Eudoxus [32999249]: Η λογική της Ιστορίας, Βαζιούλιν Βίκτωρ Αλεξέγιεβιτς
Book in Eudoxus [18063]: Η ΠΑΡΑΚΜΗ ΤΟΥ ΑΣΤΙΚΟΥ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΟΥ, ΠΑΝΑΓΙΩΤΗΣ ΚΟΝΔΥΛΗΣ

6. INSTRUCTORS

Course Instructor:	Associate Professor D. Patelis (Faculty - PEM)
Lectures:	Associate Professor D. Patelis (Faculty - PEM)
Tutorial exercises:
Laboratory Exercises:

Technical University of Crete