FSS:PSY275 Philosophical foundations of p - Course Information
PSY275 Philosophical foundations of psychological knowledge
Faculty of Social StudiesSpring 2018
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Jan Šerek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Jan Šerek, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Jan Šerek, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Psychology – Faculty of Social Studies - Timetable
- each even Monday 8:00–9:30 P52
- Timetable of Seminar Groups:
PSY275/02: each odd Monday 9:45–11:15 U32 - 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
- Psychology (programme FSS, B-PS)
- Course objectives
- This course pursues selected issues in epistemology, philosophy of science and argumentation theory. It aims to provide a deeper insight into the debates that students already know or will learn from courses on research methodology in psychology. A particular focus is on the understanding of basic philosophical standpoints and their rationale. A section focused on the theory of argumentation aims to cultivate a general skill of critical thinking in professional debates within psychology.
- Learning outcomes
- After passing this course, student will be able:
- to identify author's epistemological standpoint in psychological literature;
- to reconstruct arguments for and against basic approaches in philosophy of science;
- to explain how research and statistical methodologies are affected by different approaches in philosophy of science;
- to analyze arguments in terms of their quality and to identify basic argumentation fallacies;
- to asses the validity of arguments from the perspective of propositional logic. - Syllabus
- 1. Realism and anti-realism (positivism, social constructivism)
- 2. Falsification and revolution (Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos)
- 3. Traditional versus Bayesian epistemology
- 4. "Science wars" (sociology of science, critical theory)
- 5. Foundations of argumentation and logic
- Literature
- required literature
- PICHA, Marek. Kritické myšlení a rekonstrukce argumentu (Critical thinking and reconstruction of argument). 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2014, 41 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-6730-1. info
- CHALMERS, A. F. What is this thing called science? Fourth edition. Indianapolis: Hackett publishing company, 2013, xxi, 282. ISBN 9781624660382. info
- BEM, Sacha and Huibert LOOREN DE JONG. Theoretical issues in psychology : an introduction. 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE, 2006, xv, 312. ISBN 9780761942016. URL info
- recommended literature
- LATOUR, Bruno. Stopovat a skládat světy s Brunem Latourem : výbor z textů 1988-2013. Edited by Tereza Stöckelová, Translated by Čestmír Pelikán. Vydání první. Praha: tranzit.cz, 2016, 250 stran. ISBN 9788087259375. info
- After the science wars. Edited by Keith M. Ashman - Philip S. Baringer. New York: Routledge, 2001, vi, 221 p. ISBN 041521209X. info
- Criticism and the growth of knowledge : proceedings of the International colloquium in the philosophy of science, London, 1965. Edited by Imre Lakatos - Alan Musgrave. Repr. with corrections. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1974, 282 s. ISBN 0521096235. info
- Teaching methods
- Lectures, seminar discussions, reading.
- Assessment methods
- Two written tests on the reading materials (2 x max. 5 points), seminar attendance (max. 5 points), final written test (max. 50 points). Overall 31 or more points is needed to pass.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
- Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2018, recent)
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