FF:PH0256 Modern Time Science II - Course Information

PH0256 Modern Time Science II

Extent and Intensity

0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

prof. PhDr. Daniel Špelda, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

prof. PhDr. Jan Zouhar, CSc.
Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Hana Holmanová

Prerequisites

An Essay with the use of the foreign literature

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Philosophy (programme FF, B-HS)
• Philosophy (programme FF, B-PH) (3)
• Philosophy (programme FF, M-HS)
• Philosophy (programme FF, M-PH)
• Philosophy (programme FF, N-HS)
• Philosophy (programme FF, N-PH) (3)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Philosophy (programme FF, M-SS)

Course objectives

The lecture about modern science will be concentrated mainly on key scientific personalities of modern period, i. e. Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton. The attention will be paid on one hand to modern scientific theories and to the cultural and social context of them on the latter. The influence of scientific theories to the thinking of respective period will be exposed as well from this following consequences important for understanding of modernity.

Syllabus

• J.Kepler, G.Galilei, I.Newton and their contemporaries

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

The course is taught only once.
The course is taught: every week.

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