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F405 Problems in Philosophy of Science

The course offers an overview of some major issues in Philosophy of Science, and
especially in Philosophy of Natural Sciences. It deals with the following topics:
- Aristotelian Science and its reception in the Middle Ages. Aristotelian and
medieval cosmology. Motion, void and the uniqueness of the world. Faith and
Reason: the double-truth theory.
- The contestation of medieval science in the Renaissance. Neo-Platonism and
Humanism.
- The philosophical foundations of early modern cosmology: Copernic and
Galileo.
- Rationalism and Empiricism. Method and the foundation of the laws of nature
in the philosophy of Descartes and Locke.
- Newtonian induction and the notion of the System of the world from Newton
to Laplace. The controversy between Leibniz and Clarke.
- The contestation of classical science in the philosophy of Hume. Humes
critique of causality and the induction problem.
- The Kantian synthesis: space, time and causality.
- The conception of science in Comtes Positivism.

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 - From Logical Positivism to Husserls Crisis of European Sciences and
Transcendental Phenomenology.
- The epistemology of Kuhn and Feyerabend.
- Continental philosophy of science: Bachelard, Cavaills, Canguilhem,
Foucault.

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