FI:V007 Philosophy of Science I - Course Information
V007 Philosophy of Science I
Faculty of InformaticsAutumn 1995
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. PhDr. Ing. Miloslav Dokulil, DrSc. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Ing. Miloslav Dokulil, DrSc.
- Prerequisites
- Kurs bude zakončen kolokviem. Doporučuje se navázat kursem V008 Philosophy of Science II.
- 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
- Informatics (programme FI, B-IN)
- Informatics (programme FI, M-IN)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, M-IN)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, M-SS)
- Information Technology (programme FI, B-IN)
- Syllabus
- The birth of modern science, its problems, methods, criteria.
- Skepsis and Descartes' demon. What our reality is and what it is like.
- Hume's skepsis over causality. Laws and probability.
- Physiocratism - modelling in economy.
- Positivism I, II. The inaugurating variants of physicalism.
- The big problem of humanities at the end of 19-th century. (Can the criteria of science be applied in humanities?)
- Positivism III. The beginnings of modern logic of language.
- Some strategies fighting off the skepsis.
- Some hints stimulating the skepsis over the concept of probability.
- The beginnings of the philosophy of science.
- Cognitive instrumentalism.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 1995, recent)
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