FF:PH2111 Methodology of Science - Course Information
PH2111 Methodology of Science
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching - Teacher(s)
- Ing. Mgr. Zdeňka Jastrzembská, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Josef Krob, CSc.
Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts - Prerequisites
- ! PHBF Philosophy of Science
The knowledge of the history of philosophy. - 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
- there are 8 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- The goal of the course is to provide students with basic systematic overview of philosophical problems of science and of the recent history of philosophical perspectives on scientific inquiry.
- Learning outcomes
- After completing the course, students will be able to: - distinguish the science from the pseudoscientific views - list and analyze the key problems in philosophy of science - present the key arguments in the given problems.
- Syllabus
- Science and pseudoscience
- Criteria for demarcation
- Objectivity, rationality, values
- Problem of induction
- Verification, Confirmation, and Falsification
- The nature of scientific laws and explanations
- Philosophy of Science and History of Science
- Scientific revolutions and incommensurability of theories
- The forms of scientific realism and instrumentalism
- Feminist Philosophy of Science
- Literature
- required literature
- Feyerabend, Paul K.: Rozprava proti metodě. Praha 2002. ss. 27-78
- Fajkus, B.: Současná filozofie a metodologie vědy. Praha 1997
- SCHLICK, Moritz. Logický pozitivizmus. Edited by František Mihina, Translated by Tatiana Sedová - Marián Zouhar. Vyd. 1. Bratislava: Iris, 2006, 537 s. ISBN 8089238068. info
- POPPER, Karl R. Logika vědeckého bádání. Translated by Jiří Fiala. 1. vyd. Praha: Oikoymenh, 1997, 617 s. ISBN 80-86005. info
- KUHN, Thomas S. Štruktúra vedeckých revolúcií. Translated by Ľubica Valentová. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Pravda, 1982, 285 s. info
- recommended literature
- Contemporary debates in philosophy of science. Edited by Christopher Hitchcock. 1st ed. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004, xiii, 348. ISBN 1405101512. info
- A companion to the philosophy of science. Edited by W. H. Newton-Smith. Malden: Blackwell Publishers, 2000, xvi, 576 s. ISBN 0-631-17024-3. info
- LAMBERT, Karel and Gordon G. BRITTAN. An introduction to the philosophy of science. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1970, x, 113. info
- Teaching methods
- Lectures, seminars.
- Assessment methods
- 2 papers presented and discussed during seminars.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Předmět je určen jen pro studenty s imatrikulací do jaro 2019 včetně, popřípadě pro studenty, kteří absolvovali v bakalářském studiu předmět PH1108 Dějiny české filozofie.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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