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| Course name | Methodology of Natural Science |
| Course ID | 13.9-WB-OS2P-Metod.-S17 |
| Faculty | Faculty of Biological Sciences |
| Field of study | Environmental Protection |
| Education profile | academic |
| Level of studies | First-cycle studies leading to Bachelor's degree |
| Beginning semester | winter term 2021/2022 |
| Semester | 4 |
| ECTS credits to win | 2 |
| Course type | obligatory |
| Teaching language | english |
| Author of syllabus |
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| The class form | Hours per semester (full-time) | Hours per week (full-time) | Hours per semester (part-time) | Hours per week (part-time) | Form of assignment |
| Lecture | 15 | 1 | - | - | Credit with grade |
| Class | 15 | 1 | - | - | Credit with grade |
General knowledge about most important issues in the methodology of natural science.
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1) Inductive and deductive reasoning. 2) Modes of explanation, laws of nature/laws of science. 3) The role of empirical data and logic in science. 4) The role of extra logical and empirical factors in science (philosophical, psychological, cultural, etc.). 5) The criteria of demarcation. 6) Science and naturalism (methodological and ontological). 6) The role of naturalism in biology, cosmology and mind sciences. 7) Science in the perspective of history and philosophy - the origin of Universe, the origin of species, dissociative disorder, Near-death experiences. 8) Truth and rationality in science. 9) Science and society, religion, gender, etc. 10) Levels of analysis in science.
Lecture, and discussion.
| Outcome description | Outcome symbols | Methods of verification | The class form |
Attendance, discussion, and paper.
Ariew R., Pierre Duhem, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2011.
Brooke J.H, Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (whatever ed.).
Bull D.L., et al., Exorcism revisited: positive outcomes with dissociative identity disorder, Journal of Psychology and Theology 1998, Vol. 26, No. 2, 188-196.
Bylica P., Levels of Analysis in Philosophy, Religion, and Science, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, vol. 50, no. 2 (June 2015), p. 304-328.
Feyerabend P., Against Method, (whatever ed.).
Holton G., Science and Anti-Science, (whatever ed.).
Kuhn T.S., The Structure of Scientific Revolution, (whatever ed.).
Lakatos, The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Philosophical Papers Volume 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1978.
Lommel P., et al., Near-death experience in survivors of cardiac arrest: a prospective study in the Netherlands, Lancet 2001, Volume 358, No. 9298, 15 December 2001, s. 2039–2045.
Popper K.R., Logic of Scientific Discovery, (whatever ed.).
Modified by dr Olaf Ciebiera (last modification: 19-05-2021 22:02)
