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Torsdage, kl. 9-12 i bygning 1451, lokale 225.
Første gang: Torsdag, 2. september 2010.
Der fordres et sikkert kendskab til udvalgte teorier indenfor videnskabsfilosofien samt udvalgte konceptioner vedrørende videnskabernes sammenhæng med den menneskelige praksis. Der fordres desuden en evne til at kunne argumentere for og imod bestemte synspunkter inden for det videnskabsfilosofiske felt.
Disciplinen omhandler udvalgte, centrale opfattelser af forholdet mellem videnskab, filosofi og samfund, herunder teknologiens rolle. Der behandles væsentlige videnskabsfilosofiske begreber som 'rationalitet', 'faglighed', 'værdi' og 'teoriudvikling'. Gennem kurset tilegner den studerende sig indsigt i udvalgte videnskabers forhold til historiske, politiske og almenmenneskelige problemstillinger. Kurset giver baggrund for en forståelse og vurdering af væsentlige sider ved videnskabernes aktuelle transformationer og koblinger.
September 2: Lecture 1: What is science? (HHL, JS)
Core readings for the lecture : Paul Benoit and Francoise Micheau, "The Arab Intermediary", in: M. Serres (ed) A History of Scientific Thought. Elements of a History of Science . 1995: 191-222. Oxford: Blackwell; Arun Bala, 2006, The Dialogue of Civilizations in the Birth of Modern Science , 7-33, 53-63. Palgrave; Steven Shapin: A Social History of Truth, Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England , The University of Chicago Press, 1994, pp. 3-41 [Chapter 1: the great Civility. Trust, Truth and moral Order]
September 9: Meeting with groups on assignment #1: Science vs. Pseudoscience--Can science be defined?
Core readings : Karl Popper: "Science: Conjectures and Refutations", CC, pp. 3-10; Thomas Kuhn, "Logic of Discovery or Psychology of Research?", CC, pp. 11-19; Imre Lakatos, "Science and Pseudoscience", CC, pp. 20-26; Paul Thagard, "Why Astrology is a Pseudoscience", CC, pp. 27-38
(M. Serres, "Introduction" to A History of Scientific Thought. Elements of a History of Science . 1995: 191-222. Oxford: Blackwell.)
September 16: Lecture #2: What is a scientific explanation (JS)
Core reading for the lecture: W. Salmon, Four Decades of Scientific Explanation , 1989, Univ. of Minnesota Press, pp. 4-11, 12-25, 50-58, 111-116, 135-150, 166-177.
September 23: Meeting with groups on assignment #2: What is a scientific law? (JS)
Core readings: Rudolph Carnap, "The Value of Laws: Explanation and Prediction", CC, pp. 678-684; Carl G. Hempel, "Two Basic Types of Scientific Explanation", CC, pp. 685-694; Fred Dretske, "Laws of Nature", CC, pp. 826-845; Nancy Cartwright, "Do the Laws of Physics State the Facts?" , CC, pp. 865-877
September 30: Lecture #3: Er videnskab objektiv og rationel? (HHL)
Core readings: Kuhn, "The Nature and Necessity of Scientific Revolutions" CC, pp.86-101 ; Barnes, B. og D. Bloor, "Relativism, Rationalism and the Sociology of Knowledge", I Hollis, M. og S. lukes, Rationality and Relativism , Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1982, s. 21-47; Latour , B. "The Promises of Constructivism", i Ihde, D. og E. Selinger, Chasing Technoscience. Matrix for Materiality , Indiana University Press, Bloomington & Indianapolis, 2003, pp. 27-46.
October 7: Møder med grupper om opgave #3: Er observation teoriladet?
Core readings: Kuhn, "Objectivity, Value Judgment, and Theory Choice" CC, pp. 102-118; Ernest McMullin, "Rationality and Paradigm Change in Science", CC. pp. 119-138; R. Bradley," The philosopher and the field archaeologist: Collingwood, Bersu and the excavation of King Arthur's Round Table", Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 60 , 1994, pp. 27-34.
October 21: Lecture #4: Does science describe reality? (JS)
Core readings: Wilfrid Sellars, "Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man".
October 28: Meeting with groups on assignment #4 : Do theoretical entities exist? (JS)
Core readings : ; Maxwell: "The Ontological Status of Theoretical Entities", CC, pp. 1052-1063 ; Baas Van Fraassen, "Arguments concerning Scientific Realism", CC, pp. 1064-1087 ; Ian Hacking: "Experimentation and Scientific Realism" CC, pp. 1153-1168 ; Kit Fine, "The Natural Ontological Attitude" CC, pp. 1189-1208
November 4: Lecture #5: Videnskab, Teknologi, Kultur (HHL)
Core readings: Peter-Paul Verbeek, What Things Do. Philosophical Reflections on Technology, Agency, and Design , The Pennsylvania State University Press 2005, ch. 4, "A Material Hermeneutic", pp. 121-145
November 11: Lecture #6: Videnskab, Vidensamfund, Miljøvidenskab (HHL)
Core readings: Don Ihde, Ironic Technics , Automatic Press, 2008, pp. 1-17 [Stupidity in the Knowledge Society], Ihde, Don, "How could we ever believe science is not political?" Technology in Society, 24, 2002, 179-189 . Andrew Pickering, "Asian Eels and Global Warming. A Posthumanist perspective on Society and the Environment", Ethics and the Environment , 10 (2), 2005, 29-43.
November 18: Møde med grupper om opgave #5: Videnskab og Vidensproduktion i Vidensamfundet (Modus 1 og Modus 2; CUDOS). (HHL)
Core readings : John Ziman, Is Science losing its objectivity?", Nature , vol. 382 . 29. august 1996, pp. 751-754; Michael Gibbons: "Hvilken slags universitet? Forskning og undervisning i det 21. århundrede", i: Kristensen et. al.: Ideer om et universitet - Det moderne universitets historie fra 1800 til i dag , Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2007, s. 217-229.
November 25: Lecture #7: Does philosophy ever matter for scientific research? (JS)
Core readings: William Wimsatt, 1997. "Aggregativity: Reductive Heuristics for Finding Emergence," Philosophy of Science 64, 372-384.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cognitive-science/
Valerie Gray Hardcastle and C. Matthew Stewart, 2002, "What Do Brain Data Really Show?" Philosophy of Science , Vol. 69, No. 3, Supplement, pp. S72 -S82
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Henning Høgh Laursen (koordinator) og Johanna Seibt
Der undervises typisk via ugentlige forelæsninger med diskussion. Undervisningen tager udgangspunkt i et udvalg af artikler eller uddrag fra monografiske fremstillinge.
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Core readings er tekster som er obligatoriske tekster til forelæsninger eller gruppe møder og som skal læses før forelæsning eller gruppemøde. Disse tekster findes især i antologien: J. A. Cover and Martin Curd (eds.), Philosophy of Science. The Central Issues , 1998, Norton&Norton (CC), som vil være tekstbogen I ca. halvdelen af kurset.
Andre core readings vil være artikler som skal downloades fra Kursushjemmesiden på AULA.
