| Course title | Philosophy of science |
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| Course code | KFHS/B137 |
| Organizational form of instruction | Lecture + Seminary |
| Level of course | Bachelor |
| Year of study | 3 |
| Semester | Winter |
| Number of ECTS credits | 3 |
| Language of instruction | Czech |
| Status of course | Compulsory |
| Form of instruction | Face-to-face |
| Work placements | This is not an internship |
| Recommended optional programme components | None |
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| Course content |
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1. Introduction. Philosophy and science in their historical transformations. Scientific attitude, science as a laboratory of epistemology and avantguard ontology. 2. Illustration: Galileo Galilei and the emancipation of science from philosophy. 3.-4. History of philosophy of science in a survey: Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Hume, Kant, Comte, Mill and Whewell, Masaryk, Poincaré, Vienna Circle, Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos and Feyerabend, Bayesian program. 5.-7. Philosophical and methodological problems of different areas of research: (a) Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic, (b) Philosophy of Science, (c) Philosophy of Social sciences, (d) Philosophy of Humanities 8.-9. Popper: The Logic of Scientific Discovery. Demarcation problem, refutation of inductive inference, testing, falibility and anti-foundationalism. 10.-11. Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Normal science, paradigm and disciplinary matrix, anomalies and crisis, scientific revolution, incommensurability. 12. Lakatos and the theory of research programs. Core and accessories, rise and fall. 13. Today's situation. Feyerabend and methodological anarchism, Bayesian program, Laudan, Cartwright, Latour.
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| Learning activities and teaching methods |
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| Learning outcomes |
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This is a survey course. We pass through a historical introduction, quick introductions into philosophies of different kinds of science and scholarship, and study of the main figures and themes of philosophy of science in the 20th century.
Students are able to prepare a 20 minute lecture/lesson on any of the discussed topics and to proceed with further studying somewhat advanced primary and secondary literature. |
| Prerequisites |
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none
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| Assessment methods and criteria |
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unspecified
The lecture contents + required reading (in the extent of about 70 pages). Towards the end of the course, students hand in a short essay. There is an oral final exam. |
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| Study plans that include the course |
| Faculty | Study plan (Version) | Category of Branch/Specialization | Recommended semester |
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