Information Package / Course Catalogue
Interdisciplinary Relations and Scientific Ethics
Course Code: TAR140
Course Type: Required
Couse Group: First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 2
Prt.: 0
Credit: 2
Lab: 0
ECTS: 2
Objectives of the Course

Understanding the relations between the science of history and other sciences. It is necessary to inform students about the current debates in interdisciplinary relations and to give them new horizons. While teaching all these new scientific developments, it will be explained why scientific ethics are necessary for people to think freely. By explaining why and how the world elites and power centers that finance scientific developments support interdisciplinary, post-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary studies, students will gain a world-scale horizon. With the interdisciplinary relations course, students of the history department will be able to see the effects that take place behind the scenes of the events they encounter in history and will get rid of the habit of trying to explain events based only on documents. What are the rules and values of scientific ethics and how good teaching and application of these rules and methods can improve the legal, political and economic quality of societies.

Course Content

It is not possible to make a correct historical analysis without understanding the relations between the science of history and other disciplines. For this reason, today's historiography has a significant deficiency in this field. History students will be taught how they can benefit from other disciplines in the analysis of historical events. As in the past, the science of physics has a great influence on social sciences. Just as the Newtonian understanding of the universe had a great impact on social, political and metaphysical fields in the past, the great developments in physical science today cause great debates and changes in social, political and metaphysical fields. The development of quantum physics, relativity and string theories, double slit experiments will be taught how the issues discussed in modern science affect the world elites and power centers.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Lec. Uğur TATLISUMAK
Learning Outcomes
1.to be able to tell the descriptions of knowledge and science.
2. to be able to write about natural and social sciences.
3.to be able to evaluate relation of history with social sciences.
4. to be able to explain development processes of social sciences.
5.to be able to compare between historian and other scientists.
6.to be able to comment on relations of law, politics and sociology with history.
7.to be able to exemplify situations in which history provides sources to other social sciences.
8.Understanding the importance of scientific ethics in scientific and social development
9.Understanding the Reasons for the Need for a New Scientific Methodology
10.Understanding how the principles of scientific ethics ensure the freedom of human reason and emotions
11.Understanding the relationship between physical science and social sciences
12.To teach how scientific objectivity can be achieved and how human psychology interferes with objectivity
13.To teach what the rules and values of scientific ethics are, and how good teaching and application of these rules and methods can improve the legal, political and economic quality of societies
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Cumhuriyet Döneminde Türkiye’de Bilim “Sosyal Bilimler-II” TÜBA, Ankara 2001.
2.Azra Erhat, Osmanlı Aydınından Türk Münevverine, Can Yayınları, İstanbul 2002.
3.Steven S. Gubser, Sicim Teorisi Hakkında Küçük Bir Kitap, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Yayınevi, 2018.
4.Türkiye'de Tarih Yazımı, Yeditepe Yay., İstanbul 2017.
5.Şevki Işıklı, Kuantum Felsefesi: Postmodern Bilimin Doğuşu, Birleşik Yayıncılık, Ankara, 2012.
6.Victor J. Stenger, Bilinçsiz Kuantum, Yayınevi: Ginko Bilim, 2019.
7.Şevki Işıklı, Bulanık Düşünen Deha: Lotfi A. Zadeh, Sophos Yayıncılık, İstanbul, 2017.
8.Willis Harman & Jane Clark, Modern Bilimin Yeni Metafizik Temelleri, Küre Yayınları, 2022.
9.İnayet Aydın, Akademik Etik, Pagem Yay., 2022.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
What is Science? What is a Discipline? Why are Interdisciplinary Relations Necessary?
Week 2 - Theoretical
Three main branches of modern science: Humanities, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences.
Week 3 - Theoretical
History-Economics-Policy Maker Relationship
Week 4 - Theoretical
Fuzzy Logic, Fringed Logic, Theory of Realms of Minds.
Week 5 - Theoretical
The Impact of the Double Slit Experiment and Quantum Physics on Scientific Methodology
Week 6 - Theoretical
The Effects of the Cern Experiments on the Philosophies of Humanbeing-Matter-History and Transhumanism
Week 7 - Theoretical
Artificial Intelligence Brings Different Disciplines Closer Together
Week 8 - Theoretical
The Relationship between String Theory-Metaphysics-Politics and History
Week 9 - Theoretical
Development of Science and Academic Ethics
Week 10 - Theoretical
Scientific Ethics, Impartiality and Human Psychology
Week 11 - Theoretical
The Impact of Global Elites on Scientific Ethics
Week 12 - Theoretical
Methodology and Scientific Ethics in Developed Countries.
Week 13 - Theoretical
Global Policy Implications of the Need for a New Scientific Methodology
Week 14 - Theoretical
How does Scientific Ethics contribute to the Freedom of Human Reason and Emotion?
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%40
Final Examination1%60
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory140228
Midterm Examination1718
Final Examination113114
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)50
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
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5
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4
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4
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4
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4
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4
4
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4
4
4
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4
4
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4
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5
4
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5
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4
4
4
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4
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4
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4
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4
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4
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4
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5
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5
4
2
4
4
4
4
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5
4
4
4
OÇ-11
5
4
2
4
4
4
4
4
5
4
4
4
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4
4
2
4
5
4
5
5
4
4
5
4
OÇ-13
4
5
2
4
4
4
4
4
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4
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4
Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026