PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Academic year
2021/2022 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
FILOSOFIA DELLA SCIENZA
Course code
FT0409 (AF:357548 AR:188360)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6
Degree level
Bachelor's Degree Programme
Educational sector code
M-FIL/02
Period
4th Term
Course year
1
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The course provides a general overview of the philosophy of science as well as an introduction to logic
Knowledge of the main topics in the philosophy of science and good proficiency in propositional logic
No previous knowledge is required for this course
- basic logic
- deduction and induction
- Hume and the problem of induction
- The falsificationism
- Logical empiricism
- Scientific revolutions
- Duhem-Quine thesis
- Feminist philosophy of science
- Abduction
- Induction and probability
- Scientific explanation
- Realism vs anti-realism
- J. Ladyman, Filosofia della scienza, Carocci, 2007
- S. Okasha, Il primo libro di filosofia della scienza, Einaudi, 2006
- Texts of various authors will be made available in due course
Written exam of two hours where students will be asked to answer to three questions and solve a logic exercise
The course will be taught "blended". See Moodle for a detailed description
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Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 25/03/2022