The Value of Knowledge

Learning Outcomes

1.	Outline ideas and arguments of major philosophers in the history of the subject, encountered through their own writings.
2.	Develop the ability to enter imaginatively into different world-views through an understanding of their different starting-points and presuppositions.
3.	Develop the ability to recognise methodological errors, rhetorical devices, unexamined conventional wisdom, unnoticed assumptions and vagueness.
4.	Develop the ability to read closely and interpret difficult texts drawn from a variety of ages and traditions, and evaluate the arguments explicitly or implicitly contained therein.
5.	Develop the ability to communicate ideas and arguments effectively, in language that is both precise and suited to the occasion.

Created August 2009 | Prepared by VP