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Methodology of Philosophy

Code: 160505
ECTS: 3.0
Lecturers in charge: doc. dr. sc. Ljudevit Hanžek
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Lectures 30
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Description:
Introduction to the basic methodological procedures in philosophical and scientific research.


Course content:

1. Relationship between philosophy and specialised scientific disciplines
2. Status of theoretical ideas in philosophy and in science
3. Phenomenological explanation (I. Kant)
4. Analytical explanation (W.v.O. Quine)
5. Dialectical explanation (G.W. F. Hegel)
6. Inductivist verificiationist explanation (T. Kuhn)
7. Deductivist falsificationist explanation (K. Popper)
Learning outcomes:
  1. Explain the relationship between philosophy and autonomous scientific disciplines
  2. Explain phenomenological, analytic, dialectical, structuralist, functionalist, hermeneutical, deductivist and inductivist methodological procedures in theoretical formation of philosophical notions, and verificationist and falsificationist methodological procedures in formation of autonomous scientific theories
  3. Define the distinction between history of philosophy and history of specialised scientific disciplines
  4. Explain the notion of paradigms in science
  5. Give an account of the problem of inductive justification of deduction
Literature:
  1. Kritika čistog uma,, , Kant, Immanuel, Matica hrvatska, Zagreb, 1987.
  2. From a Logical Point of View, , Quine, Willard van Orman, Harvard University Press, 1980.
  3. Fenomenologija duha, , Hegel, Georg Willhelm Friedrich, Kultura, Zagreb, 1955.
  4. Znanost logike, , Hegel, Georg Willhelm Friedrich, Zagreb : Demetra, 2003.
  5. Struktura znanstvenih revolucija, , Kuhn, Thomas, Naklada Jesenski i Turk, 2013.
  6. Logika znanstvenog otkrića, , Popper, Karl, Nolit, Beograd, 1973.
2. semester
Mandatory course - Regular studij - Philosophy
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