Philosophy of science [SSPSB308]

Objectives

To initiate the students to the core topics and questions of philosophy of science, mostly in its epistemological dimension (about the nature, the bounds and stakes of scientific knowledge).

Content

The course will associate a (quite light) historical approach of philosophy of science to current reflexions about hot topics (scientific realism, empiricism and its critics, scientific method, modelling, the demarcation between science and pseudoscience or scientific expertise).