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Basics of Science Philosophy

Subject
Subject code HKE100
Subject name Basics of Science Philosophy
Credit points 3 ECTS
Grading method Prelim
Subject program
Curriculum subject
Curriculum 2017 TK
Study year 1
Semester Fall semester
Subject type Mandatory
Subject loads
Lecture 16
Practice 16
General description
Philosophy, philosophy of science, science and other ways of considering the world; research questions and methods; principles of ethics in science; the interaction of science and society; philosophical argumentation of personal views
General aim
The purpose of the course is that the student would acquire primary abilities of philosophical thinking, distinguish contemporary questions of philosophy of science from other commonsensical and philosophical questions and would shape personal reasoned answers for these questions.
Aim
After passing the course the student
- distinguishes philosophy from other ways of considering the world;
- distinguishes between science, philosophy of science and other branches of philosophy according to their research questions and methods;
- understands the interaction of social and scientific activities of humans;
- is able to recognize pseudoscientific views and distinguish them from scientific approaches; knows how to be critical of sources of information and independently assess the certainty of it;
- is acquainted with and appreciates the principles of ethics in science;
- is able to discuss primary philosophical texts;
- shapes a personal reasoned view concerning the main questions that are discussed.
Form description
Lectures, seminars, assignments for individual work
Replacement Subjects
HKE075 Philosophy of Science and Politics
Current rounds
None
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