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Philosophy of Science (Vorlesung)

Dozent/in: Michael Schefczyk

Inhalt: This course intends to give you a clear and, hopefully, interesting introduction to debates about the nature and purpose of science. Conventional textbook approaches to philosophy of science tend to focus on natural science; they pay only marginal attention, if any attention at all, to theories that are at home in the humanities, cultural studies or social sciences. By and large, conventional approaches consider physics, chemistry and biology to be paragons of serious scientific work; in contrast, the humanities and (partly) the social sciences are decidedly less respected. Many philosophers of science view much of what is being produced in the humanities and the social sciences as highly dubious. For example, one of the leading philosophers of science of the last century, Karl Popper, was convinced that theories such as Marxism or psychoanalysis, which (used to) play no small role in the humanities and the social sciences, are pseudo-scientific. In return, philosophers, sociologists and cultural theorists have challenged the basic assumptions and thus the authority of the conventional view of science. These deep divergences between a conventional and a critical understanding of empirical science has led to the infamous 'science wars' of the nineties. The science wars gave rise to a broad range of fundamental questions regarding the nature of science(s). This course intends to deal with the most important of them. IMPORTANT: a) Language of instruction is English. b) All lectures will be filmed; the recordings will be available on Mystudy; some sessions will be online lectures only. d) All additional course material will be available on Mystudy.