VIK019 Science Methodology

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2004
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Ivana Holzbachová, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Pavla Kánská
Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Helena Bednářová
Timetable
each odd Friday 13:20–14:55 C128
Prerequisites
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.
Course objectives
The seeking for the understanding to the scientifical knowledge not only in the history of philosophy but also at present. A brief overview of the philosophers' ideas from the Antique till XIX. cent. Closely will be discussed the ideas about the science in XX. cent., mainly so-called historical schools of the philosophy of science. Also some selected problems of the scientifical approach to the reality will be studied with special interest for the relation between the natural and social sciences. The seminars will be given to the students' papers about the significant literature.
Syllabus
  • 1. The rise of the philosophy of science, the definition of the science
  • 2. The ancient understanding to the science
  • 3. The Middle Ages understanding to the science; the beginnings of the critique of Aristotle's model
  • 4. The renaissance science
  • 5. The modern understanding to the science: Descartes, Newton
  • 6. The positivistic understanding to the science
  • 7. Irrationalism, the crisis of the belief to the science and the Neo-positivistic answer
  • 8. K. R. Popper
  • 9. Historical school of the development of the science
  • 10. The struggle for the status of the social sciences
  • 11. The society, the science, and the technics
  • 12. The theory, the fact, the reductionism
  • 13. The modern relativisation of the term of theory: philosophy and science
  • 14. The psychology, the sociology, and the ethics of the science
Literature
  • Floss, P.: Proměny vědění. Praha 1977
  • Fajkus, B.: Současná filozofie a metodologie vědy. Praha 1997
  • HOLZBACHOVÁ, Ivana. Filozofické a metodologické problémy vědy. Vydání 1. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1996, 140 stran. ISBN 8021014709. info
  • KUHN, Thomas S. Štruktúra vedeckých revolúcií. Translated by Ľubica Valentová. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Pravda, 1982, 285 s. info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Kurs bude zakončen kolokviem ve formě ústní zkoušky.
Minimum ke zkoušce:
Vznik a charakteristika filosofie vědy
Pozitivistické pojetí vědy
Popper a kritika pozitivismu
Vědecká revoluce u T. S. Kuhna a P. Feyerabenda
Vztah mezi vědou a společností
Language of instruction
Czech
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2002, Spring 2003.
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