The aim of this course is to enable the students to explain ontological and epistemological assumptions of basic scientific paradigms, approaches to scientific knowledge and research methods and techniques of the science, and to give a summary about unique characteristics of scientific knowledge.

The necessity of knowledge in terms of ontology, the purpose of the knowledge, history of knowledge, sources of human knowledge, types of knowledge, the accuracy of knowledge, historical development of Western knowledge, Origin and evolution of scientific knowledge, criterion, subject and field of scientific knowledge, basic scientific paradigms, basic scientific approaches, scientific method and research techniques, basic criticism of scientific knowledge.