Epistemology of Science - YMGS502

• Title: Epistemology of Science
• Guaranteed by: Programme Gender Studies (24-KGS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
• Actual: from 2020
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: winter s.:written
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unlimited / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Guarantor: doc. Věra Sokolová, M.A., Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Ing. Petr Pavlík, Ph.D.
• Class: Courses unavailable to incoming students
• Incompatibility : YMGS102
• Interchangeability : YMGS102
• Is incompatible with: YMGS202, YMGS102
• Is interchangeable with: YMGS202, YMGS102

Annotation

Last update: Ing. Petr Pavlík, Ph.D. (10.09.2022)

Annotace The course aim is to introduce students to methodology and methods used in feminist social-science research and to offer them an opportunity to critically reflect on dialog between traditional science and alternative paradigms, between mainstream science and feminist alternatives etc. Thematic areas 1. Why study epistemology? Feminist perspectives 2. Nature of Science 3. Knowledge in Context 4. Theory, observation and practical adequacy 5. Paradigms - assumptions and implications for research 6. Advantages and disadvantages of traditional division to quantitative and qualitative research 7. Gender and epistemology 8. Empiricist epistemology 9. Stand-point epistemology 10. Stand-point epistemology: rekonceptualization 11. Epistemic communities 12. Otherness as a challenge to epistemology 13. Feminist epistemology and natural sciences 14. Final reflections

Descriptors

Last update: Mgr. Tatiana Chavalková Badurová (10.09.2020)

Povinný předmět studijního programu Genderová studia. Zápis možný pouze pro domovské studující - provádí jej tajemnice programu.

This is a mandatory course of the Gender Studies study programme. Only students of the programme can attend it - registration is administered by the Secretary.

Syllabus

Last update: Kristýna Macková (22.02.2019)

Povinná:

GUBA, E. G., LINCOLN, Y.S. (eds.). „Paradigmatic Controversies, Contradictions, and Emerging Confluences.“ Pp. 163-188 in N.K., DENZIN, Y.S., LINCOLN. Handbook of qualitative research. London: SAGE Publications, 1994. ISBN 0-7619-1512-5.

MORROW, R. A. Critical theory and methodology. London: SAGE Publications, 1994. ISBN 0-8390-4682-1. Vybrané kapitoly.

ALCOFF, L., POTTER, E. (eds.). Feminist Epistemologies. New York: Routledgte, 1993. ISBN 0-415-90450-1. Vybrané kapitoly.

SAYER, A. Method in Social Science: A Realist Approach. New York: Routledge, 1992. ISBN 0-203-16360-5. Vybrané kapitoly.

TANESINI, A. An Introduction to Feminist Epistemologies. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd., 1999. ISBN 0-631-20012-6.

Doporučená:

HARDING, S. The Science Question in Feminism. London: Cornell University Press, 1986. ISBN 0-8014-1880-1.

LAKATOS, I., MUSGRAVE, A. (eds.). Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970. ISBN 0-521-09623-5. Vybrané kapitoly.

HARDING, S., O’BARR, J. F. (eds.). Sex and Scientific Inquiry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. ISBN 0-226-31626-2. Vybrané kapitoly.

KUHN, T. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. ISBN 978-0226-45808-3.