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Course, academic year 2023/2024
  
Selected Topics in Philosophy and the Philosophy of Science - N832010
Title: Vybrané kapitoly z filozofie a filozofie vědy
Guaranteed by: Department of Chemical Education and Humanities (832)
Faculty: Central University Departments of UCT Prague
Actual: from 2021
Semester: summer
Points: summer s.:2
E-Credits: summer s.:2
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, C [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
For type:  
Guarantor: Světlík Martin Karel Mgr.
Is interchangeable with: V832002
Examination dates   Schedule   
Annotation -
Last update: Světlík Martin Karel Mgr. (19.11.2012)
The course focuses on the discussion of basic issues of philosophy of science, reading and corresponding coverage of primary texts. Form of the course is a seminar. Students read the texts that will be discussed in advance. One of the students then reports the text and chairs the discussion.
Aim of the course -
Last update: Světlík Martin Karel Mgr. (14.08.2013)

Students will be able to:

1. analyze elementary issues of philosophy of science and will be informed of different solutions of the problems

2. report critically philosophical text and chair discussion

3. look up information individually and rationally argue for different opinions

Literature -
Last update: Světlík Martin Karel Mgr. (14.08.2013)

R: Aristotelés, Fysika, Praha 1996, 80-86027-03-1

R: Kuhn T. S., Struktura vědeckých revolucí, Praha 1997, 80-86005-54-2

R: Hume D., Zkoumání o lidském rozumu, Praha 1996, 80-205-0521-0

R: Skolimowski H., Účastná mysl, Praha 2001, 80-204-0918-1

R: Putnam,Rorty, Co po metafyzice, Bratislava 1997, 8071151394

R: Bacon F., Nové Organon, Praha 1974, 80-86473-19-8

R: Feyerabend P., Rozprava proti metodě, Praha 2001, 80-7299-047-0

R: Descartes R., Meditace, Praha 2003, 80-7298-084-X

A: Popper, K., Logika vědeckého bádání, Praha 1997, 80-86005-45-3

A: Husserl E., Krize evropských věd, Praha 1996, 8020503110

A: Fajkus B., Filosofie a metodologie vědy, Praha 2005, 80-200-1304-0

Learning resources -
Last update: TAJ832 (26.08.2013)

None.

Syllabus -
Last update: Světlík Martin Karel Mgr. (14.08.2013)

1. Myth, protoscience, and science.

2. Ancient Science (Aristotle)

3. Attempts at philosophical founding of science (Descartes, Husserl)

4. Critic of searching for principles of science (David Hume)

5. Ancient skepticism (Sextus Empiricus)

6. Modern science and the inductive method (Francis Bacon)

7. Positivism (August Comte, Rudolf Carnap)

8. Phenomenological critique of science (Edmund Husserl)

9. Science and pseudoscience (Karl Popper)

10. Normal and revolutionary science (Thomas Kuhn)

11. Rationality vs. epistemological anarchism (Istvan Lakatos, Paul Feyerabend)

12. The problem of language (Richard Rorty, Donald Davidson)

13. Scientific realism (Hilary Putnam)

14. Participating thinking (Henryk Skolimowski)

Registration requirements -
Last update: TAJ832 (26.08.2013)

None.

Teaching methods
Activity Credits Hours
Konzultace s vyučujícími 0 1
Účast na přednáškách 1 28
Příprava na přednášky, semináře, laboratoře, exkurzi nebo praxi 0.4 10
Práce na individuálním projektu 0.5 14
Příprava na zkoušku a její absolvování 0.1 3
2 / 2 56 / 56
Coursework assessment
Form Significance
Regular attendance 30
Defense of an individual project 30
Examination test 40

 
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