| Center |
| Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Sciences |
| Departament |
| Logic and Philosophy of Science |
| Lecturers in charge |
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| Met. Docent |
| Met. Avaluació |
| Bibliografia |
| José A. Díez y Ulises Moulines: Fundamentos de Filosofía de la Ciencia, Barcelona, Ariel, 1997. Popper, K. (1972): Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach. Oxford, Clarendon Press. Lakatos, I. (1978): The methodology of Scientific Research programmes (ed. J. Worrall and G. Currie). Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press. Kuhn, Th. (1962): The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago, Chicago Univ. press.Giere, R. (1999): Science without Laws, Chicago, Chicago Univ. press. |
| Continguts |
| 1.- Rudiments of the methodology of science 2.- The legacy of the Logical Positivism 3.- The falsationism 4.- The methodology of research programs 5.- Normal versus revolutionary science 6.- The sociology of scientific knowledge 7.- The study of science, technology and society 8.- The naturalization of the philosophy of science Some of the topics that are tackled are: a) Verification, confirmation, corroboration b) Truth and Truthlikeness (Verisimilitude) c) Scientific utopias |
| Objetius |
| The main goals of the subject Philosophy of Science are to introduce students to the most important questions and the principal currents regarding the structure and dynamics of science. Furthermore, part of the course deals with the analysis of the interactions between science and society. |
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