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Political Ideologies An Introduction

Author: Andrew Heywood

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: PHL202

Topics: Political Ideologies, liberalism, conservatism, socialism, anarchism, nationalism, fascism, populism, ecologism, multiculturalism, fundamentalism, individualism, freedom, reason, justice, toleration, classical liberalism, modern liberalism, liberal democracy, tradition, human imperfection, organic society, hierarchy, authority, property, Libertarian conservatism, authoritarian conservatism, paternalistic conservatism, Christian democracy, community, cooperation, equality, class politics, common ownership, communism, social democracy, anti-statism, natural order, anti-clericalism, economic freedom, Collectivist anarchism, Individualist anarchism, Liberal nationalism, Conservative nationalism, Expansionist nationalism, Anti-colonial postcolonial, postcolonial nationalism, Anti-rationalism, leadership, elitism, Ultranationalism, Patriarchy, Traditional feminist theories, Systems thinking, Environmental ethics, Reformist ecology, Ecosocialism, Eco-anarchism, Ecofeminism, deep ecology, Liberal multiculturalism, Pluralist multiculturalism, Cosmopolitan multiculturalism, Anti-modernism, Militancy, essential truths, Islamism, Christian fundamentalism

Epistemology

Author: Nicholas Rescher

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: PHL203

Topics: Epistemology, modes of knowledge, fallibilism, truth estimation, preface paradox, Dialllus, Skepticism, certainty, certainty of logic, certainty of life, pragmatic inconsistency, skepticism, risk, rationality, cognitive risk, economic dimension, Epistemic Justification, Plausibility, Presumption, probability, Foundationalism, Coherentism, rational inquiry, cyclic systemization, Coherentist Criteriology, Cognitive Relativism, Contexualism, cognitive progress, scientific progress, Law of Logarithmic Returns, Natural Science Complexification, Imperfectability of Knowledge, pragmatic completeness, predictive completeness, temporal finality, ignorance, Insolubilia, Limits of Knowledge, erotetic incapacity, cognitive incapacity, identifying insolubillia, Cognitive Realism, existence, cognitive dynamics

Introduction To Epistemology

Author: Adekunle Ibrahim

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: PHL203

Topics: Epistemology, History of Epistemology, Trends in Epistemology, Human Existence, knowledge, Conditions of Knowledge, Knowledge Situation, Types of Knowledge, Sources of Knowledge, Problems of Knowledge, Epistemological Theories, Rationalism, Empiricism, Constructivism, Pragmatism, Major theories of Truth, Notion of Truth, Types of Truth, Skepticism, beliefs, Arguments for skepticism, Arguments against Skepticism, Value of Skepticism, psychology, metaphysics, logic, Evolutionary Epistemology, Genetic Epistemology, Feminist Epistemology, Humanizing Epistemology, Social Epistemology, Naturalizing Epistemology, Integrative Epistemology, Empirical knowledge, Rational knowledge, Intuitive knowledge, Revealed knowledge, Authoritative knowledge, Perception, Memory, Abstraction

Introduction To Ethics

Author: AZ Ibrahim

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: PHL204

Topics: Ethics, Divisions of Ethics, Ethics Methodology, Values of Ethics, Human Value, Nature of Human Conduct, human act, moral law, Justice, Conscience, ethics assumption, Plato’s Ethics, Aristotle’s Ethics, Epicurus’ Ethics, Diogenes’ Ethics, Zeno’s Ethics, Religious Ethics, Spinoza’s Ethics, Utilitarian’s Ethics, Kant’s Ethics, Etymology, Meta-Ethics, Realism, Intuitionism, Naturalism, Subjectivism, Relativism, Cognitivism, Non-Cognitivism, Universal prescriptivism, Normative Ethics, Consequentialism, Deontology, Virtue Theories, Applied Ethics, Egoism, Utilitarianism, ethics methodologies, Aesthetic Values, Religious Values, Socio-political Values, Economic Values, Ethical values, Moral Values, Instinct, intention, motive

Theories of Ethics (Oxford Readings in Philosophy)

Author: Philippa Foot

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: PHL204

Topics: Ethics theories, Naturalistic fallacy, good, evil, moral belief, utilitarianism, extreme utilitarianism, restricted utilitarianism

Living Ethics

Author: Russ Shafer-Landau

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: PHL242

Topics: Living Ethics, morality, moral reasoning, skepticism, Good life, consequentialism, Kantian ethics, social contract theory, natural law, prima facie duties, virtue ethics, feminist ethics, ethics of care, moral problems, abortion, animals environment, Euthanasia, economic justice, economic equality, racism, terrorism, death penalty, drugs, genetic engineering, sexual morality

Doing Conversation Analysis

Author: Paul ten Have

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG352

Topics: Conversation Analysis, discursive psychology, linguistics, producing data, research design, naturalism, Sampling issues, Existing recordings, Making field recordings, Transcribing Talk-in-Interaction, Overlapped speech, Overlapped sounds, Analysing Data

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