(in Polish) Contemporary debates in philosophy of science FIL-ENG-SM>ConScien
The following topics will be dealt with:
1. Short historical introduction: the Aristotelian ideal of science and its modern rejection.
2. The controversy: inductivism vs deductivism.
3. Problems with inductivism.
4. Problems with falsificationism.
5. The controversy: irrationalism vs rationalism
6. The controversy: theoretical antirealism vs theoretical realism
7. The problem of naturalizing scientific knowledge
8. Science and Theology & Ethics
9. The problem of ontological reductionism
10. Chance and laws of nature.
(in Polish) Tryb zajęć
Course coordinators
Assessment criteria
Methods:
analysis of the texts
elements of lecturing
discussion
presentation of the prepared papers.
Evaluation will be based on the prepared multimidia presentation (50%) & the final multiple choice test (50%).
Bibliography
1. Aristotle, Posterior Analytics (selcted fragments).
2. A.E. Chalmers, What is this thing called Science? Third Edition, University of Quinsland: Quinsland, 1999 (selected chapters).
3. P. Duhem, The Aim and the Structure of the Theory, Chapter 10: Physical Theory and Experiment (selected fragments).
4. P. Feyerabend, Against Method, 1975 (selected fragments).
5. J. LeDoux, „Rethinking the Emotional Brain”, in: J. Dębiec & alii, eds., The Emotional Brain Revisited, Copernicus Center Press: Kraków, 2014 (selected pages).
6. N. Murphy, Anglo-American Postmodernity. Philosophical Perspectives on Science, Religion, and Ethics Westview Press: Boulder – Oxford, 1997 (ch. 9: Theology and Ethics in the Hierarchy of the Sciences, selected pages).
7. 2. K.R. Popper, Conjectures and Refutations, in: idem, Conjectures and Refutations. The Growth of Scientific Knowledge, 1962 (selected pages).
8. W.V.O. Quine, „Posits and Reality”, in his The Ways of Paradox and Other Essays, Cambridge, Mss & London: Harvard University Press, 1977.
9. W.V.O. Quine, „Two Dogmas of Empiricism”, Philosophical Review 1952 (part VI: Empiricism without the dogmas).
10. J. Życiński, The Structure of the Metascientific Revolution, 1988 (selected fragments)
11. You-Tube video (Copernicus Center for Interd. Studies in Cracow): M. Heller and D. Dennett on chance and laws of nature.
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