Information Package / Course Catalogue
| Course Code | : FLSF627 |
| Course Type | : Area Elective |
| Couse Group | : Third Cycle (Doctorate Degree) |
| Education Language | : Turkish |
| Work Placement | : N/A |
| Theory | : 3 |
| Prt. | : 0 |
| Credit | : 3 |
| Lab | : 0 |
| ECTS | : 5 |
The aim of this course is to discuss and assess the properties of theories which are characterized as scientific; the problems of scientific activity, the historical value of scientific theories; and the historical processes of conceptions of science as well as scientific activity from the viewpoints of different doctrines in the philosophy of science.
The historical development of natural science; the conceptions of nature and science; the epistemology of scientific cognition; epistemological problems concerning theoretical and empirical knowledge; the methodological problems of scientific inquiry. The subject-matters of this course are the following issues: i. The conceptions of nature in Ancient Greeks; ii. Aristotelian physics and his theory of science; iii. Medieval conceptions of nature and science; iv. The rise of modern science (Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton) and the critique of Aristotelian conceptions of nature and science; v. The conception of scientific knowledge in Hume, Kant and in the 19th century philosophers; vi. The rise of philosophy of science in the 20th century and the Logical Positivists; vii. Karl Popper and his falsificationism, the demarcation between science and pseudo-science; viii. structuralism and historicism in the philosophy of science; ix. Paul K. Feyerabend and his anarchist philosophy of science; x. Imre Lakatos and his methodology of scientific research programs.
| 1. | Comprehending the characteristic properties of scientific knowledge. |
| 2. | Analyzing the outlines and processes of history of science. |
| 3. | Making an assessment on the problems of interpretations related to history of science. |
| 4. | Analyzing progressive, justificationist, falsificationist, constructivist-historicist and postmodernist evaluations of history of science. |
| 5. | Discussing the problem of demarcation lines between the science and pseudo-science. |
| 1. | Özkan, C. İ. (2020). Bilim Felsefesi. Say Yayınları. |
| 2. | Koyré, A. (2000). Bilim Tarihi Yazıları. (Çev. Kurtuluş Dinçer). Tübitak Yayınları. |
| 3. | Lakatos, I. (2013). Bilimsel Araştırma Programlarının Metodolojisi. (Çev. Duygu Uygun). Alfa Yayınları. |
| 4. | Hempel, C. G. (2015). Doğa Bilimi Felsefesi. (Çev. C. İ. Özkan – T. Kabadayı). Nobel Akademi Yayıncılık. |
| 5. | Taylor, A. (2020). Platon. (Çev. C. İ. Özkan). Fol Yayınları. |
| 6. | Popper, K. R. (2005). The Logic of Scientific Discovery. Routledge Classics. |
| 7. | Kuhn, T. S. (2017). Bilimsel Devrimlerin Yapısı. (Çev. Nilüfer Kuyaş). Kırmızı Yayınları. |
| Type of Assessment | Count | Percent |
|---|---|---|
| Midterm Examination | 1 | %40 |
| Final Examination | 1 | %60 |
| Activities | Count | Preparation | Time | Total Work Load (hours) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lecture - Theory | 15 | 0 | 3 | 45 |
| Reading | 15 | 0 | 4 | 60 |
| Quiz | 1 | 10 | 3 | 13 |
| Midterm Examination | 1 | 10 | 3 | 13 |
| TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) | 131 | |||
PÇ-1 | PÇ-2 | PÇ-3 | PÇ-4 | PÇ-5 | |
OÇ-1 | 2 | 1 | |||
OÇ-2 | 2 | 1 | |||
OÇ-3 | 1 | ||||
OÇ-4 | 1 | ||||
OÇ-5 | 1 | ||||