Philosophy and Science - MS107034

• Title: Philosophy and Science
• Czech title: Filosofie a věda
• Guaranteed by: Department of Philosophy and History of Science (31-107)
• Faculty: Faculty of Science
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: summer s.:oral
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unlimited
• Min. number of students: 10
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Note: enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Mgr. Jana Švorcová, Ph.D.; Mgr. Vojtěch Hladký, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Mgr. Vojtěch Hladký, Ph.D.; Mgr. Jacques Joseph, Ph.D.; Mgr. Lenka Ovčáčková, Ph.D.; Mgr. Jana Švorcová, Ph.D.

Annotation

MS107034 Philosophy and Science 10,40-12,10 room B312

Garants: Jana Švorcová, Ph.D., Vojtěch Hladký, Ph.D.

1. From myth to logos

2. Nature and Pre-Evolutionary Thought in Antiquity (Vojtěch Hladký)

3. Transformations of the World Picture in Early Modern Period (Vojtěch Hladký)

4. How science is born (the scientific revolution, the concept of natural law, science and pseudoscience) (Jacques Joseph)

5.Methodology and epistemology: Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos, Feyerabend (Jacques Joseph)

6. French tradition: from Bachelard to Latour (sociology of science; science and society; theory and experiment...) (Jacques Joseph)

7. Naturphilosophie in Germany and Czech Lands (Lenka Ovčáčková)

8. Natural Monism/Darwinism of Ernst Haeckel and its overlaps to the Czech lands (Lenka Ovčáčková)

9. Philosophy of language and scientific thought (Frege-Russel-Wittgenstein-Godel-Dawkins-Sperber) (Petr Tureček)  

10. The transformations of Evolutionary Thought: from Lamarck to Modern Synthesis (Jana Švorcová)

11. Present: Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (Jana Švorcová)

Last update: Švorcová Jana, Mgr., Ph.D. (17.05.2025)