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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
Geography
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Shaul Tsionit
Coordinator Office Hours:
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Shaul Tsionit
Course/Module description:
Course/Module aims:
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. To understand philosophical-geograpical texts.
2.To analyse geographical contents according to philosophical principals.
3.To critically evaluate geographical research.
Attendance requirements(%):
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Course/Module Content:
1.The problem of geographical place.
2.The concept of space in philosophy and science.
3.Kant's Trancsendental Idealism.
4.Kant's "Introduction to Physical Geography".
5.Geography and History.
6.Geography and Science.
Required Reading:
Additional Reading Material:
D. Z. Albert, “Bohm’s Alternative to Quantum Mecanics”, Scientific American, (May 1994): 58-67.
J. Allen, D. Massey, A. Cochran, Rethinking the Region, Routledge, London & NY, 1998.
S.Y. Auyang, “Mathematics and Reality: Two Notions of Spacetime in the Analytic and Costructionist Vies of Gauge Field Theories”, Philosophy of Science, 67, (2000): S482-S494.
J. N. L. Baker, “The Geography of Bernhard Varenius”, Transactions and Papers, Institute of British Geographers, 21, (1955): 51-60.
M.M. Bakhtin, “Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel”, in Trs. C. Emerson & M. Holquist, in Ed. M. Holquist, The Dialogic Imagination, University of Texas Press, Austin, 1992, 84-258.
M.M. Bosman, “The Political Rethoric of Corporate Globalisation and the Possibilities for Counter-hegemonic Projects”, Space & Policy, Vol. 3, No. 2, (1999): 125-150.
J.O.M. Broek, Geography: Its Scope and Spirit, Eds. R.H. Muessig & V.R. Rogers, Charles E. Merrill Books, Ohaio, 1966.
W. Bunge, Theoretical Geography, Gleerup, Lund, Sweeden, 1973.
R. Burch, “On the Ethical Determination of Geography: A Kantian Prolegomenon”, in Eds., Light and J.M. Smith, Philosophy and Geography I: Space Place, and Environmental Ethics, New-York, Roman & Littlefield Publishers Inc., 1997.
M. Crang, Cultural Geography, Routledge, London & NY, 1998.
M. Crang, P. Crang & J. May, Eds., Virtual Geographies – Bodies, Space and Relations, Routledge, London & NY, 1999.
Y. Dolev, “Space and Time: Some (dis)Analogies”, Iyyun, The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly, 49, (2000): 61-72.
A. Einstein, Relativity, The Special and the General Theory, Routledge, London, 1993.
J.N. Entrikin, The Betweeness of Place, The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1991.
A. Giddens, The Constitution of Society, University of California Press, Berkley & Los Angeles, 1984.
D. Gregory & J. Urry, Eds., Social Relations and Spatial Structures, Macmillan, London, 1994.
C. Hamnett, “The Emperor’s New Theoretical Clothes, or Geography without Origami”, in G. Philo & D. Miller, Eds., Market Killing, Pearson Education, 2001.
R. Hartshorne, “’Exceptionalism in Geography’ Re-Examined”, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, XLV, No. 3, (1955): 205-244.
R. Hartshorne, The Nature of Geography, The Association of American Geographers, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1964, (1939).
R. Hartshorne, Perspective on the Nature of Geography, The Association of American Geographers, 1979, (1959).
D. Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1989.
M. Heidegger, Being and Time, Trs. J. Macquarrie & E. Robinson, Blackwell Publishers Ltd, Oxford, 1996.
C. G. Hempel, “The Function og General Laws in History”, The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 39, (1942): 35-48.
Hippocrates, Airs Waters Places, Tr. W.H.S. Jones, London, 1948.
A. Holt-Jensen, Geography: History and Concepts, Paul Chapman Publishing Ltd., London, 1988, (1982).
A.V. Humboldt, Aspects of Nature, in Different Lands and Different Climates, Vol. 1, Tr. Sabine, Longman, London, 1849.
A.V. Humboldt, Cosmos: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Volume 1, Tr. E.C. Otté, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore & London, 1997, (1845).
M. Jammer, Concepts of Space: The History of Theories of Space in Physics, Dover Publications, New York, 1993.
E. Kit-Wai Ma, “Translocal Spatiality”, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 5, (2002): 131-152.
M.M. Kraidy, “The Global, the Local, and the Hybrid: A Native Ethnography of Glocalization”, Critical Studies in Mass Communication, Vol. 16, Issue 4, (1999): 456-476.
H. Lefebvre, The Production of Space, Tr. D. Nicholson-Smith, Blackwell, USA, 1993, (1974).
D.F. Ley & M. Samuels, Eds., Humanistic Geography: Prospects and Problems, Maarufa Press, Chicago, 1978.
A. Light and J.M. Smith, Eds., Philosophy and Geography III: Philosophies of Place, New-York, Roman & Littlefield Publishers Inc, 1998.
J. Malpas, “Space and Sociality”, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Vol. 5, (1997): 53-79.
A. Markusen, “Fuzzy Concepts, Scanty Evidence, Policy Distance: The Case for Rigour and Policy Relevance in Critical Regional Studies”, in (Debates and Surveys), Regional Studies, Vol. 33.9, (1999): 869-884.
G.J. Martin & P.E. James, All Possible Worlds: A History of Geographical Ideas, John Weiley & Sons, New York, 1993.
D. Massey, Space, Place and Gender, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolice, 1994.
J.A. May, Kant’s Concept of Geography: and its Relation to Recent Geographical Thought, University of Toronto Press, 1970.
D. Mitchell, Cultural Geography: A Critical Introduction, Blackwell, UK&USA, 2000.
I. Newton, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Vol. 1: The Motion of Bodies, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1962.
D. Nir, Region as a Socio-environmental System, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1990.
D. Nir, “The Systems’ Approach to Landscape Analysis: Mountains as an Example of a Socio-Environmental System”, in Eds., M.R.. Moss & R.J. Milne, Landscape Synthesis: Concepts and Applications, University of Guelph, Ontario, 1999.
R. Peet, Modern Geographical Thought, Blackwell, Oxford, 1998.
A. Pred, “Place as Historically Contingent Process: Structuration and the Time-Geography of Becoming Places”, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 74(2), (1984): 279-297.
E. Relph, Place and Placelessness, Pion Limited, London, 1976.
E. Relph, “Geographical Experience and Being-in-the-World: The Phenomenological Origions of Geography”, in Eds., D. Seamon & R. Mugerauer, Dwelling, Place & Environment, Columbia University Press, USA, 1989.
J., Rhedding-Jones, “English Elsewhere: Glocalization, Assessmentand Ethics”, Journal of Curriculum Studies, Vol. 34, (2002): 383-404.
W.D. Ross, Aristotle’s Physics: A Revised Text with Introduction and Commentary, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1936.
R.D. Sack, Human Territoriality: Its Theory and History, Cambridge University Press, London, 1986.
R.D. Sack, Place, Modernity, and the Consumer's World, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1992.
R.D. Sack, “The Characterization of Place”, Geographical Review, (1993): 481.
M. Samuels, “Existentialism and Human Geography”, in Eds., D.F. Ley & M. Samuels, Humanistic Geography: Prospects and Problems, Maarufa Press, Chicago, 1978: 22-37.
F.K. Schaefer, “Exceptionalism in Geography”, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 43, (1953): 226-249.
D. Seamon, A Geography of the Lifeworld, Croom Helm, London, 1979.
D. Seamon & R. Mugerauer Eds., Dwelling, Place & Environment, Columbia University Press, USA, 1989.
N. Smith, “Antinomies of Space and Nature in Henri Lefebvre’s The Production of Space”, in Eds. A. Light and J.M. Smith, Philosophy and Geography II: The Production of Public Space, New-York, Roman & Littlefield Publishers Inc., 1998.
E.W. Soja, “The Spatiality of Social Life: Towards a Transformative Retheorisation”, in Eds., D. Gregory & J. Urry, Social Relations and Spatial Structures, Macmillan, London, 1994.
J.E. Spencer & W.L. Thomas, Cultural Geography, A Wiley International Edition, USA, 1969.
J.Q. Stewart, “Empirical Mathematical Rules Concerning the Distribution and Equilibrium of Population”, Geographical Review, 37, (1947): 461-485.
W.H. Thornton, “Mapping the ‘Glocal’ Village: The Political Limits of ‘Glocalization’”, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, Vol. 14, Issue 1, (2000).
S. Tsionit, “Homeland Studies versus Science Fiction: Kantian Meditations on Description and Theory in Geography”, The Geographical Network, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2013, pp. 1-18.
Y.F. Tuan, Space and Place, University of Minnesota Press, 1977.
T. Unwin, The Place of Geography, Longman, England, 1996.
J. Urry, “Social Relations, Space and Time, in Eds. D. Gregory & J. Urry, Social Relations and Spatial Structures, Macmillan, London, 1994.
P. Vidal de la Blache, “Des caractéres distinctifs de la géographie”, Annales de Géographie, XXII (1913): 289-299.
P. Vidal de la Blache, Principles of Human Geography, Tr. M.T. Bingham, Ed. E. de Martonne, Constable Publishers, London, 1926.
K. Webb, An Introduction to Problems in the Philosophy of Social Sciences, Pinter, London & New York, 1995.
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 100 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
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