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- Bölcsészettudományi Kar
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- BTK Filozófia Intézet
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- BMI-FILD-391
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- 2024/25/1
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- For the latest version of the syllabus, please visit the Philosophy course catalogue: http://lps.elte.hu/courselist/ The course provides an introduction to modern analytic philosophy of science. I shall focus on the central epistemological problems concerning empirical sciences like physics; and I shall discuss these issues on a formal/logical basis. Finally I sketch a naturalized philosophy of science based on what I call physico-formalist philosophy of mathematics -- an account for scientific knowledge, both a priori and empirical, within a purely physicalist ontology. Content of the course: • characterization of scientific knowledge • science in social context • traditional methodology of empirical science • skepticism concerning empirical knowledge • truth of fact vs. truth of reasoning dichotomy • the Kantian tradition • philosophy of logic and mathematics • scientific theory as partially interpreted formal system • semantics of scientific theory • the physicalist approach • meaning and truth • holistic conclusions • operationalism and the constitutive a priori • fundationalism • empirical underdetermination • theory-ladenness of empiria • empirical—theoretical dichotomy • the problem of realism--antirelalism • scientific knowledge in the context of the natural world Required reading: • Alexander Bird: Philosophy Of Science (Fundamentals of Philosophy), Routledge, 1998. • L. E. Szabó: Meaning, Truth, and Physics, In G. Hofer-Szabó, L. Wroński (eds.), Making it Formally Explicit, European Studies in Philosophy of Science 6. (Springer International Publishing, 2017) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-55486-0_9. (Preprint: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/14769/) Suggested further reading: • David A. Truncellito: Epistemology, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, https://www.iep.utm.edu/epistemo/ • Thomas Uebel: Vienna Circle, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2013 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.) (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/vienna-circle/) • John Vickers: The Problem of Induction, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2013 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.) (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/induction-problem/) • Robert Sinclair: Quine’s Philosophy of Science, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (http://www.iep.utm.edu/quine-sc) • L. E. Szabó: Mathematical facts in a physicalist ontology, Parallel Processing Letters, 22 (2012) 1240009 (12 pages), DOI: 10.1142/S0129626412400099 [preprint] • L. E. Szabó: Formal Systems as Physical Objects: A Physicalist Account of Mathematical Truth, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 17 (2003) pp. 117 – 125 (preprint: PDF) • L. E. Szabó: Intrinsic, extrinsic, and the constitutive a priori, Foundations of Physics 50, 555–567 (2020). DOI: 10.1007/s10701-019-00281-z (Open Access: https://rdcu.be/bKxdO) • T. Kuhn: Scientific Revolutions, in The Philosophy of Science, R. Boyd et al. (eds.), MIT Press 1991, pp. 139-157.