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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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unspecified
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture, Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
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Learning outcomes
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Science determines and affects our lives. The extraordinary development, its role, its ethical and methodological problems have become the starting point for the emergence and development of the specific historical research - the history of science. Given that science itself is defined by its own method - studying of the history of science leads to a deeper awareness of the specific methods and approaches of historical work. In the history of science the positivist, archaeological, sociological, anthropological etc. approaches are strongly reflected. It is significant that two achievements, which affected particularly the work of historians in the twentieth century, refer to the history of science (Kuhn, Foucault). Aim of the course is thus initiate students into the basics of the history of scientific thought and the basic outlines of the history of sciences.
Students will learn about the most important trends in the history of science from historical beginnings to the present. Subject History of Science allows students to better communicate in the field of other disciplines (near and distant) and understand them.
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Prerequisites
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Interest in history from an interdisciplinary perspective.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Written exam, Student performance
Active participation in lectures / seminars, reading of assigned texts and preparation for seminars, successfully completed the written verification of knowledge of discussed topics.
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Recommended literature
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Alexandre KOYRÉ. (2004). Od uzavřeného světa k nekonečnému vesmíru. Praha.
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Edward GRANT. (2007). A History of Natural Philosophy From the Ancient World to the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge ? New York .
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Emanuel RÁDL. (2006). Dějiny biologických teorií novověku I. Od renesance na práh 19. století; II. Dějiny evolučních teorií v biologii 19. století . Praha.
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John Desmond BERNAL. (1960). Věda v dějinách I?II. Praha.
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Leviathan and the Air-Pump. (1989). Leviathan and the Air-Pump. Princeton.
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Lorraine DASTON ? Katharine PARK. (1998). Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150?1750. New York.
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Pavel FLOSS. (1987). Proměny vědění. Praha.
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Peter BURKE. (2007). Společnost a vědění. Od Gutenberga k Diderotovi. Praha.
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Thomas S. KUHN. (1997). Struktura vědeckých revolucí. Praha.
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Zdeněk KRATOCHVÍL. (1992). Mýtus, filosofie a věda I?II. Praha .
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