| Area of Mathematics: | General and Pedagogical Knowledge (EGPK) | ||
| Semester: | Spring | ||
| Course ID: | 22002 | ||
| Course Type: | Elective | ||
| Teaching hours per week: | Theory: 3 | Practice: 0 | Laboratory: 0 |
| ECTS : | 2 | ||
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Description
- Discrimination between belief and knowledge. Empirical and analytic knowledge. Knowledge as justifiable belief.
- The problem of the validity of scientific knowledge. Scientific theories and predictions. Neo-positivism (logical positivism, logical empiricism) and the principle of (experimental) verifiability. Popper’s reaction and the Falsification Principle.
- Kuhn’s «Structure of Scientific Revolutions» and the difference mitigation between knowledge at exact sciences and humanities.
- The meaning of “Paradigm” and “Normal Science”. The meaning of incommensurability of competing paradigms. The “paradigm shift” as a belief shift.
- Lakatos’ restricted view. Hard core and the protective belt of a Research Programme and its role at scientific evolution.
- Feyerabend’s opinion on epistemological anarchism (anarchist theory of knowledge), the meaning of “counter-induction” and the opposition to the method.
- The problem of progress in Science and its analysis by Laudan.
- The meaning of natural selection and its transfer to matters of epistemology. Toulmin’s evolutionary epistemology.
Bibliography
- Kuhn, T. S. (2012). The structure of scientific revolutions. University of Chicago Press.
- Popper, K. (1959). The Logic of Scientific Discovery. London: Hutchinson.
