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| Detailinformationen |
| Quellcurriculum |
Bachelorstudium Transformation Studies. Art x Science 2025W |
| Lernergebnisse |
Kompetenzen |
(*)- The students are familiar with and can explain fundamental concepts from the philosophy of science such as theory, experiment and observation, deduction and induction, verification and falsification, realism and anti-realism, worldviews and paradigms, the ‘crucial’ experiment
- The students are familiar with and major philosophical problems from the philosophy of science such as the problem of induction, the Duhem problem, the realism/anti-realism debate, the problem of the theory-ladenness of observation, the limits of scientific knowledge, and the role of science in society, and they know a major answer to them
- The students are familiar the major worldviews in the history of science such as the Aristotelian, Newtonian and relativistic worldviews as well as the central beliefs that form these worldviews
- The students know some of the problems the Aristotelian worldview faced at the time of the Scientific Revolution, and some of those the Newtonian worldview faced at the end of the 19th century, and how they were overcome by the new worldview
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| Fertigkeiten |
Kenntnisse |
| (*)"• The ability to explain major concepts in the philosophy of science
• The ability to explain major philosophical problems and issues in the philosophy of science
• The ability to explain major worldviews in the history of science
• The ability to explain the reasons why a worldview runs into obstacles and is eventually replaced
by a new worldview
• The ability to explain the major positions concerning the role of science in society"
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(*)"Philosophy of science concepts (selection):
• scientific theory
• (crucial) experiment and observation
• deduction
• induction
• verification and falsification
• realism and anti-realism
• worldviews/paradigms
• Scientific Revolution
• revolutions in the history of science
• normal science
• anomaly
• Philosophy of science problems (selection)
• The Problem of Induction
• The Duhem-Quine Problem
• The Scientific Realism/Anti-Realism Debate
• The Theory-Ladenness of Observation
• The Limitations of Scientific Knowledge
• The Role of Science in Society
• Major worldview worldviews in the history of science and their components
• Aristotelian worldview
• Teleological explanation
• Essentialism
• The Ptolemaic model of the universe
• Orbits and epicycles
• The Newtonian worldview
• Copernicus’, Brahe’s, and Kepler’s models of the universe
• Newton’s laws
• Galileo’s observations with the telescope
• The limitations of the Newtonian worldview
• Einstein’s Theory of Relativity
• Principle of the Constancy of the Velocity of Light
• Principle of Relativity"
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| Beurteilungskriterien |
(*)The course will be assessed by a written exam or an oral assignment (e.g. oral exam, presentation and/or participation in course discussions).
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| Lehrmethoden |
(*)Lecture, class discussions, group and/or individual exercises
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| Abhaltungssprache |
Englisch |
| Literatur |
(*)Dewitt, Richard 2018, Worldviews: An Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Science, Oxford: Blackwell
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| Lehrinhalte wechselnd? |
Nein |
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