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Lehrveranstaltungen

Dialektik (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Alex Demirovic

Inhalt: Das Seminar behandelt Fragen der Dialektik. Dialektik wird hier verstanden als eine Form, in der sich das Denken unter bestimmten Bedingungen bewegt. Es handelt sich also um eine Methode, aber auch um einen sachhaltigen Prozess. Sachhaltig meint, dass sich das Denken bei seinen durchaus widersprüchlichen und suchenden Bewegungen selbst beobachtet und erfährt. In diesem Sinn ist Dialektik auch eine Haltung. Es werden neuere Ergebnisse aus der Diskussion über Dialektik erörtert.

Wissenschaftstheoretische Kontroversen (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Thomas Saretzki

Inhalt: Modern science has been shaped by controversies right from the start. Until today, its epistemic development is driven by processes of questioning and justifying knowledge claims in scientific publics. Scientific controversies have not only focused on hypotheses, models or theories related to specific objects or fields of study. In scientific controversies sooner or later basic epistemological questions related to truth claims and their critical appraisal reappear: What is science? How can we distinguish between scientific knowledge and non-scientific believe? How should scientific research proceed to produce new knowledge that can be justified intelligibly in order to be recognized intersubjectively as “true”? Can we assume a unity of science? If not, what kind of knowledge can and should different scientific disciplines try to achieve in terms of its scope, quality or significance for practice? This seminar starts from the hypothesis that the analysis and assessment of scientific controversies provides an instructive approach to understand basic issues in theories of science. These issues can be studied in classical controversies in the theory of science that have been performed or reconstructed under headings such as inductivism vs. falsificationism, realism vs. constructivism, positivism vs. critical theory, explanation vs. understanding, among others. Some of these controversies focused on the role of norms and values (e.g. Werturteilsstreit), on conceptual alternatives to classical action-theoretical foundations (e.g. behaviour, structure, or systems theory), on methodological approaches (e.g. experimentalism), on concepts of interdisciplinarity or transdisciplinarity or on the relation of science to its social, cultural or political context (e.g. enlightenment, democracy).