Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University Course Catalogue
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| Year/Semester of Study | 3 / Spring Semester | ||||
| Level of Course | 1st Cycle Degree Programme | ||||
| Type of Course | Optional | ||||
| Department | ORTAK SEÇMELİ DERSLER BÖLÜMÜ | ||||
| Pre-requisities and Co-requisites | None | ||||
| Mode of Delivery | Face to Face | ||||
| Teaching Period | 14 Weeks | ||||
| Name of Lecturer | DAVUT SARITAŞ (davutsaritas@nevsehir.edu.tr) | ||||
| Name of Lecturer(s) | |||||
| Language of Instruction | Turkish | ||||
| Work Placement(s) | None | ||||
| Objectives of the Course | |||||
| The aim of this course; The nature of science is to gain knowledge about what science is, how it works, how scientists organize their scientific research, how scientific knowledge emerges and how it develops, and what factors are affected by it, and to gain the necessary skills for the philosophy of science to understand the nature of science correctly. | |||||
| Learning Outcomes | PO | MME | |
| The students who succeeded in this course: | |||
| LO-1 | Comprehends the unique features of scientific knowledge |
PO-1 Improves himself/herself in interdisciplinary fields that add value to personal change and development within the framework of interest, ability, social sensitivity and volunteering. |
Examination Term Paper |
| LO-2 | Relates the historical processes of science with its current problems |
PO-1 Improves himself/herself in interdisciplinary fields that add value to personal change and development within the framework of interest, ability, social sensitivity and volunteering. |
Examination Term Paper |
| LO-3 | Evaluates different philosophical approaches to scientific activity |
PO-1 Improves himself/herself in interdisciplinary fields that add value to personal change and development within the framework of interest, ability, social sensitivity and volunteering. |
Examination Term Paper |
| LO-4 | Discusses the boundaries separating science from non-science |
PO-1 Improves himself/herself in interdisciplinary fields that add value to personal change and development within the framework of interest, ability, social sensitivity and volunteering. |
Examination Term Paper |
| LO-5 | Discuss the different faces of science that has developed in the historical process |
PO-1 Improves himself/herself in interdisciplinary fields that add value to personal change and development within the framework of interest, ability, social sensitivity and volunteering. |
Examination Term Paper |
| PO: Programme Outcomes MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation |
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| Course Contents | ||
| This course covers topics/questions of philosophy of science, classification of sciences, scientific and non-scientific activities, contexts of scientific activity, scientific explanation and problems, method and rationality problem in science, human factor and problems in science, curriculum and tradition in science, nature of social sciences, future of science. and the decisiveness of technology and today's many aspects of science. | ||
| Weekly Course Content | ||
| Week | Subject | Learning Activities and Teaching Methods |
| 1 | Basic concepts | Lecture, Argumentation, Socratic Method |
| 2 | Subjects/questions of the Philosophy of Science (the problem of knowledge and being scientific) | Lecture, Argumentation, Socratic Method |
| 3 | Classification of sciences; scientific and non-scientific activities | Lecture, Argumentation, Socratic Method |
| 4 | Dimensions of scientific activity (thought, language and action) | Lecture, Argumentation, Socratic Method |
| 5 | Contexts of scientific activity (finding and validation-testing) | Lecture, Argumentation, Socratic Method |
| 6 | Scientific explanation and its problems-I (scientific laws) | Lecture, Argumentation, Socratic Method |
| 7 | Scientific explanation and problems-II (theory and models) | Lecture, Argumentation, Socratic Method |
| 8 | mid-term exam | |
| 9 | The problem of method and rationality in science (verificationism and falsificationism) | Lecture, Argumentation, Socratic Method |
| 10 | Human factor and problems in science-I (paradigm and holistic approach) | Lecture, Argumentation, Socratic Method |
| 11 | The human factor and problems of science -II (method, value, purpose) | Lecture, Argumentation, Socratic Method |
| 12 | Program and tradition in science | Lecture, Argumentation, Socratic Method |
| 13 | The nature of the social sciences | Lecture, Argumentation, Socratic Method |
| 14 | The future of science and the decisiveness of technology | Lecture, Argumentation, Socratic Method |
| 15 | Many faces of science in the current and historical process | Lecture, Argumentation, Socratic Method |
| 16 | final exam | |
| Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading | ||
| 1 | Gimbel, S. (2017). Bilimsel yöntemin izinde: Bilim felsefesinin öğretilmesinde yeni bir yaklaşım, (Çev. Özlem Ünlü). Ankara: Dipnot Yayınları. | |
| 2 | Demir, Ö. (2000). Bilim felsefesi. Ankara: Vadi Yayınları. | |
| 3 | Kuhn, T. S. (1995). Bilimsel devrimlerin yapısı. (Çev. Nilüfer Kuyaş). İstanbul: Alan Yayınları | |
| 4 | Feyerabend, P. (1999). Yönteme karşı ( Çev. Ertuğrul Başer). İstanbul: Ayrıntı Yayınları | |
| 5 | Habermas, J. (1998). Sosyal bilimlerin mantığı üzerine (Çev. M. Tüzel). İstanbul: Kabalcı Yayınevi | |
| 6 | Chalmers, A. F. (2016). Bilim dedikleri (Çev. Hüsamettin Arslan). İstanbul: Paradigma Yayıncılık | |
| 7 | Yıldırım, C. (2004). Bilim felsefesi. İstanbul: Remzi Kitabevi. | |
| 8 | Frank, P. (2017). Bilim felsefesi, bilim ile felsefe arasındaki bağ (Çev. Dilek Kadıoğlu). İstanbul: Say Yayınları | |
| 9 | Rosenberg, A. (2015). Bilim felsefesi: Çağdaş bir giriş. Ankara: Dipnot yayınları. | |
| 10 | Özlem, D. (2010). Bilim felsefesi. İstanbul: Notos Kitap Yayıncılık | |
| Required Course instruments and materials | ||
| Textbooks, Projector, Lecture Notes | ||
| Assessment Methods | |||
| Type of Assessment | Week | Hours | Weight(%) |
| mid-term exam | 8 | 1 | 30 |
| Other assessment methods | |||
| 1.Oral Examination | |||
| 2.Quiz | |||
| 3.Laboratory exam | |||
| 4.Presentation | |||
| 5.Report | |||
| 6.Workshop | |||
| 7.Performance Project | |||
| 8.Term Paper | 9-14 | 1 | 30 |
| 9.Project | |||
| final exam | 16 | 1 | 40 |
| Student Work Load | |||
| Type of Work | Weekly Hours | Number of Weeks | Work Load |
| Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) | 2 | 14 | 28 |
| Outside Class | |||
| a) Reading | 1 | 14 | 14 |
| b) Search in internet/Library | 1 | 14 | 14 |
| c) Performance Project | 0 | ||
| d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report | 0 | ||
| e) Term paper/Project | 1 | 14 | 14 |
| Oral Examination | 0 | ||
| Quiz | 0 | ||
| Laboratory exam | 0 | ||
| Own study for mid-term exam | 1 | 7 | 7 |
| mid-term exam | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Own study for final exam | 1 | 11 | 11 |
| final exam | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | |||
| 0 | |||
| Total work load; | 90 | ||