DXV_FMEV Philosophy and Methodology of Science

Faculty of Economics and Administration
Spring 2018
Extent and Intensity
16/0/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Bohuslav Binka, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. Mgr. Jiří Špalek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. Ing. Juraj Nemec, CSc.
Department of Public Economics – Faculty of Economics and Administration
Contact Person: Jana Biskupová
Supplier department: Department of Public Economics – Faculty of Economics and Administration
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
1. On the basis of lectures and interactive interpretation lead students to learn the methodology of science.


2. Shaping ability to creatively implement the theory of science in scientific research

Syllabus
  • Introduction (prerequisites for successful management and completion of the course).
  • 1) circuit: The research subject, research objectives , research methods . Methodology and methods. Scientific debate and argumentation.
  • 2) circuit: General and specific methods of scientific inquiry.
  • 3circuit: Science, philosophy, methodology. Normative and non normative methodology.
  • 4) circuit: Positivism. Contemporary positivism. Verification. Critical rationalism. Falsification. Paradigm. The methodology of scientific research programs. Methodological anarchism. Structuralism. Constructivism. Operacionalismus.Cartesian epistemology and non cartesian epistemology. Phenomenology . Hermeneutics . Dialectical- materialist methodology. Postmodernism. Implementation of methodology in scientific research. Speech acts (Searle ), a priori knowledge of nature and the principle of verification (Quine), neopragmatismus (Rorty )
  • 5)circuit: Guided reading of selected original texts.
Literature
    required literature
  • OCHRANA, František. Metodologie vědy : úvod do problému. Vyd. 1. Praha: Karolinum, 2009, 156 s. ISBN 9788024616094. info
  • Epistemology : an anthology. Edited by Ernest Sosa - Jaegwon Kim - Matthew McGrath. 1st pub. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2000, x, 590. ISBN 0631197249. info
    recommended literature
  • Wittgenstein,L.: Tractatus logico-philosophicus. Bratislava. Kaligram 2003
  • Ochrana,F.: Nový duch vědy Gastona Bachelarda. In: Filosofický časopis. Praha. Academia. 2/1998,ročník 46,s. 203-213
  • Prigogine,Y-Stengersová,I.: Řád z chaosu. Praha. Mladá fronta 2001
  • FOUCAULT, Michel. Archeologie vědění. Translated by Čestmír Pelikán. V Praze: Herrmann & synové, 2002, 318 s. ISBN 8023901249. info
  • Logika vědeckého bádání. Edited by Karl R. Popper. 1. vyd. Praha: OIKOYMENH, 1997, xliv, 617. ISBN 80-86005-45-3. info
  • HUSSERL, Edmund. Krize evropských věd a transcendentální fenomenologie : úvod do fenomenologické filozofie. Vyd. 2. Praha: Academia, 1996, 568 s. ISBN 8020005617. info
  • LYOTARD, Jean François. O postmodernismu :postmoderno vysvětlované dětem : postmoderní situace. Translated by Jiří Pechar. Vyd. 1. Praha: Filosofia, 1993, 206 s. ISBN 80-7007-047-1. info
    not specified
  • FAJKUS, Břetislav. Filosofie a metodologie vědy : vývoj, současnost a perspektivy. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2005, 339 s. ISBN 8020013040. info
  • FEYERABEND, Paul. Rozprava proti metodě. Praha: Aurora, 2001, 431 pp. ISBN 80-7299-047-0. info
Teaching methods
The lecture , dialogue with students
Assessment methods
The examination consists of two parts:

Written project. Its content is think about the thesis process (object exploration, subject of exploration, research objectives, selected, respectively. methodology assumed, anticipated methods of scientific work, hypothesis, the expected benefits for the theory and practice). Detailed methodological links to project processing are placed in the lectures.

Debate. Consists of project defense where students in a debate justifies its approach. The discussion is conducted in the range of taught and rehearsed the substance with respect to the methodology used and the methods of scientific work in process and project-driven debate. Its essence is the ability of student to respond creatively to teachers questions within the basic literature and lectured methodological problems which are related to the project processed.

Assessment: level of processing of the project and creative management of the problems of philosophy and methodology of science in the range studied and taught professional level materials and creative discussion of the fundamental problems of literature and lectures.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Note related to how often the course is taught: Rozvrh bude upřesněn po dodání termínů výuky.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017.
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