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729G19 Applied Cognitive Science

Philosophy of Science


The course is an introduction to the philosophy of science. It is meant to give students a basic grasp of central concepts such as knowledge, truth, justification, explanation, objectivity, and realism/antirealism. Also of the main philosophical views about how best to conduct science, such as positivism, falsificationism, and Kuhns theory of paradigms. The course consists of a mixture of lectures and discussion seminars. Lectures will mostly relate to the main course book (by S. Okasha) but the seminars will be a discussion about particular papers that are to be read ahead.

Course literature:

Samir Okasha, Philosophy of Science - a very short introduction, Oxford University Press.

Reading for discussion seminars:

  1. Hansson, SvenOve, Science and Pseudoscience, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  2. Ingthorsson, R. D. 2013. The Natural vs. the Human Sciences: Myth, Methodology, and Ontology, Discusiones Filosoficas 22(1): 13-29
Additional readings will be presented when the course begins.

Course material


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