Kurzus nemzetközi vendég- és részidős hallgatóknak
- Kar
- Bölcsészettudományi Kar
- Szervezet
- BTK Filozófia Intézet
- Kód
- BMI-LOTD-205E.03
- Cím
- Philosophy of Science I.
- Tervezett félév
- Őszi
- ECTS
- 4
- Nyelv
- en
- Leírás
- te_kód: BMI-LOTD-205E kurzuskód: BMI-LOTD-205E
- Oktatás célja
- Az előadást követő vizsgára történő felkészülés. The course provides an introduction to modern analytic philosophy of science, focusing on the central epistemological problems of empirical sciences like physics.
- Tantárgy tartalma
- The course provides an introduction to modern analytic philosophy of science, focusing on the central epistemological problems of empirical sciences like physics. Contents: 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 empirical underdetermination scientific knowledge in the context of the natural world
- Számonkérés és értékelés
- Oral exam from: Readings 1-7 + the complete material of the lectures, including the more formal approaches too.
- Irodalomjegyzék
- Samir Okasha: Philosophy of Science - A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press 2002 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) T. Kuhn: Scientific Revolutions, in The Philosophy of Science, R. Boyd et al. (eds.), MIT Press 1991, pp. 139-157.