Course Name | Philosophy Of Science |
Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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GENS 202 | Fall/Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
Prerequisites | None | |||||
Course Language | English | |||||
Course Type | Service Course | |||||
Course Level | First Cycle | |||||
Mode of Delivery | - | |||||
Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course | Lecture / Presentation | |||||
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Assistant(s) | - |
Course Objectives | In this course it is aimed that the students would see the relation of science and philosophy in a historical and holistic way by analysing examples from different disciplines. |
Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
1 | Introduction to the course: Major themes in the philosophy of science | Ch. 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 |
2 | The Scientific Revolution: A very short history of the scientific revolution | Ch. 1.5 |
3 | Empiricism I: The empiricist tradition, the Vienna Circle and the Central Ideas of Logical Positivism | Ch. 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 |
4 | Empiricism II: Logical Empiricism, the Web of Belief, Experience, Experiment and Action | Ch. 2.4, 2.5 |
5 | The Problem of Induction: Induction, Deduction, Confirmation, Explanatory Inference, the ravens problem | Ch. 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 |
6 | Popper: Conjecture and Refutation. Popper’s unique place in the philosophy of science, Popper’s theory of science and scientific change, idea of falsification, objections to Popper’s ideas | Ch. 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5 |
7 | Kuhn and Scientific Revolutions I: Paradigms, anomaly and crisis, revolutions | Ch. 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5 |
8 | Kuhn and Scientific Revolutions II: Incommensurability, relativism, progress | Ch. 5.6, 5.7, 5.8 |
9 | Theories and Framework I: Lakatos and research programs, Laudan and Research Traditions | Ch. 6.1, 6.2, 6.3 |
10 | Theories and Framework II: Feyerabend and his anything goes approach | Ch. 6.4, 6.5, 6.6 |
11 | The Challenge from Sociology of Science: Merton and the old sociology of science, strong program, Leviathan, Latour | Ch. 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4 |
12 | Science and Politics: Feminist ideas of science, sex and gender in behavioral biology, feminist epistemology, values | Ch. 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6 |
13 | Naturalistic Philosophy: Naturalism, Quine, the role of observation, division of labor in science, competition, goals of science | Ch. 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6 |
14 | Scientific Realism: Science and realism, empiricism vs. realism, metaphysical constructivism, idea of progress | Ch. 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7 |
15 | Review of the Semester | |
16 | Final Exam |
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Midterm | 2 | 60 |
Final Exam | 1 | 40 |
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Total |
Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
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Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | ||
Study Hours Out of Class | 16 | 3 | 48 |
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Midterms | 2 | 15 | |
Final Exams | 1 | 30 | |
Total | 156 |
# | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
1 | To have the knowledge of classical and contemporary theories in sociology, and be able to comparatively analyze these theories. | |||||
2 | To have the knowledge of main methodological approaches in sociology as well as social research and data analysis methods. | |||||
3 | To have knowledge in the fields of general sociology, sociology of institutions, social structure and change, and applied sociology. | |||||
4 | To be able to determine the appropriate methods in the design of the planning stage and conclusion of a sociological project, individually or as part of a team. | |||||
5 | To be able to diagnose the social dynamics behind personal problems by using sociological imagination. | |||||
6 | To be able to define social problems at local, national, and global level, and offer new policies for solutions. | |||||
7 | To be able to apply commonly-used computer programs for data collection and analysis in sociological research. | |||||
8 | To be able to develop a socially responsible, scientific and ethical perspective regarding the collection, analysis, interpretation and presentation of data. | |||||
9 | To be able to analyze different aspects of the social world by drawing on the knowledge produced by other disciplines of the social sciences. | |||||
10 | To be able to constantly renew herself/himself professionally by following scientific and technological developments in sociology and social research. | |||||
11 | To be able to collect sociological data and communicate with sociologists and other social scientists in a foreign language ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B1). | |||||
12 | To be able to speak a second foreign at a medium level of fluency efficiently. | |||||
13 | To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise. |
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest