| Individual course details | ||||||||||
| Study programme | Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Applied and Computer Physics | |||||||||
| Chosen research area (module) | ||||||||||
| Nature and level of studies | Undergraduate Studies | |||||||||
| Name of the course | Philosophy of Natural Sciences | |||||||||
| Professor (lectures) | associate professor Ilija Maric | |||||||||
| Professor/associate (examples/practical) | associate professor Ilija Maric | |||||||||
| Professor/associate (additional) | ||||||||||
| ECTS | 4 | Status (required/elective) | optional | |||||||
| Access requirements | ||||||||||
| Aims of the course | Introduction to the critical consideration of natural sciences | |||||||||
| Learning outcomes | Understanding basic ontological, epistemological, and methodological problems of natural sciences | |||||||||
| Contents of the course | ||||||||||
| Lectures | 1.Concepts of philosophy, science, and the philosophy of science as a philosophical discipline. 2. The relation of natural sciences towards metaphysics and mathematics. 3. Inductivism, the growth of scientific knowledge, and the changes in science. 4. Scientific realism and antirealism. 5. Scientific explanation. 6. Causality and the natural law. 7. Concepts of finite, infinite, continuous, and discrete in mathematics and natural sciences. 8. Matter and space. 9. Time and movement. 10. Reductionism and physicalism. 11. Theories and their unification. 12. Models, analogies, and idealisation. 13. Measuring and hypotheses. 14. Experiment and the thought experiment. 15. The ethics of science | |||||||||
| Examples/ practical classes | Practical classes and term papers cover the following topics: 1. The concept of philosophy. 2. The concept of science. 3. Science and metaphysics. 4. Science and religion. 5. The growth of scientific knowledge. 6. Realism and antirealism. 7. Inductivism. 8. Scientific explanation. 9. Causality. 10. Natural law. 11. Scientific theory. 12. Reductionism. 13. Scientific hypothesis. 14. The ethics of science | |||||||||
| Recommended books | ||||||||||
| 1 | Newton-Smith, W. H., (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Science, Blackwell, Oxford, 2000. | |||||||||
| 2 | Samir Okasha, Filozofija nauke, Šahinpašić, Sarajevo, 2004. | |||||||||
| 3 | Карл Хемпел, Филозофија природних наука, Плато, Београд, 1997. | |||||||||
| 4 | Илија Марић, Философија природних наука, скрипта за предавања. | |||||||||
| 5 | Невен Сесардић (прир.), Филозофија науке, Нолит, Београд, 1985. | |||||||||
| Number of classes (weekly) | ||||||||||
| Lectures | Examples&practicals | Student project | Additional | |||||||
| 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| Teaching and learning methods | Lectures, reading and interpreting original philosophical texts, writing term papers | |||||||||
| Assessment (maximal 100) | ||||||||||
| assesed coursework | mark | examination | mark | |||||||
| coursework | 10 | written examination | ||||||||
| practicals | oral examination | 70 | ||||||||
| papers | 20 | |||||||||
| presentations | ||||||||||