| Center |
| Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Sciences |
| Departament |
| Philosophy |
| Lecturers in charge |
| D9010 - CARLOS MINGUEZ PEREZ |
| Met. Docent |
| Lectures + directed reading and tutorials |
| Met. Avaluació |
| Final examination and project work |
| Bibliografia |
| Hull, L.W.H.: Historia y Filosofía de la ciencia, Barcelona, Ariel, 1985./ Crombie, A.C.: Historia de la Ciencia: De San Agustín a Galileo, Madrid, Alianza, 1974./ Farrington, B.: Ciencia griega, Buenos Aires, Hachette, 1957./ Sambursky, S.: El mundo físico a fines de la antigüedad, EUDEBA, 1970./ Rioja, Ana & Ordóñez, Javier: Teorías del Universo. Vol. I: De los Pitagóricos a Galileo. Madrid, Ed. Síntesis, 1999. |
| Continguts |
| 1.- History of scientific thought. Guidelines for interpretation. 2.- Eternity and Salvation. 3.- Ideal of knowledge: Plato y Aristotle. 4.- Aristotle. Structure of reality: Matter and form; Substance and accident; power and deeds. 5.- Aristotle: movement. 6.- Aristotle: elements. 7.- Aspects of Greek astronomy 8.- Aristotle. Causes. Image of the Universe. 9.- Aristotles. Physical problems: emptiness, space, time, weight. 10.- The Museum of Alejandria. Confrontation and synthesis between ideologies. 11.- Progress in astronomy up until Hiparco. 12.- Physics and astronomy: Ptolomeo. 13.- Ptolomeo: Structure of the Universe. |