Methodology 08-FLDL-MET
1. The tradition of logical reconstruction of empirical knowledge: a) an empirical basis of scientific investigations; b) the analytic-synthetic distinction; c) the first and the second dogmas of empiricism; d) the observational-theoretical terms distinction; e) scientific laws; f) the descriptive characterization of scientific theories; g) the theory of predictive power of theoretical predicates; h) Ramsey's method of elimination of theoretical terms; i ) the canonical model of scientific theory; j) Prze??cki's semantic for scientific theories; k) a critical examination of the observational-theoretical terms distinction; l) the non- statement approach to empirical theory (Sneed and Stegm?ller); m) properties of empirical theories; n) approaches to theoretical models (Achinstein, W?jcicki). 2. Methodology of social sciences: a) naturalism and anti-naturalism in methodology of social sciences; b)the assumption about rationality; c) the humanistic interpretation.
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J. Kmita, Wykłady z logiki i metodologii nauk, Warszawa 1973; E. Nagel , The Structure of Science, London 1960; Z. Hajduk, Ogólna metodologia nauk, Lublin 2001; F. Suppe (ed.), The Structure of Scientific Theories, Urbana, Chicago, London 1977; R. Wójcicki, Metodologia formalna nauk empirycznych, Wrocław 1974; T. Benton, I. Craib, Philosophy of Social Science: Philosophical Foundations of Social Thought, Palgrave, New York, Basingstoke 2001; A. Grobler, Metodologia nauk, Kraków 2006.
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