GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE/FEL401A
Course Title: PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Credits 3 ECTS 6
Semester 7 Compulsory/Elective Compulsory
COURSE INFO
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkish
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
  Assos. Prof. Ayten Koç Aydın
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  www.gazi.edu.tr/~aytenaydin
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  aytenaydin@gazi.edu.tr
 -- LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT









 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face
 -- PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES
  There is no prerequisite or co-requisite for this course.
 -- RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENTS
  There is no recommended optional programme component for this course.
 --COURSE CONTENT
1. Week  What is Philosophy? What is the Philosophy of Science? How to study? What can Philosophy do for science?
2. Week  Basic logic: induction & deduction
3. Week  The study of philosophy of science, and an overview of 20th century philosophy of science
4. Week  Positivism on scientific change and scientific progress
5. Week  Neo-positivism, the Vienna Circle and basic principles of science
6. Week  Positivism and its downfall
7. Week  Popper: What is science?
8. Week  Popper: What is a scientific explanation?
9. Week  Mid. term exam.
10. Week  Popper: Theory of conjectures and refutations (falsificationism)
11. Week  The revolution against the positivist
12. Week  Kuhn on the role of history of science, and the nature of normal science
13. Week  Kuhn on priority of paradigms, crises and the emergence of new theories
14. Week  Kuhn on the response to crises, and scientific revolutions
15. Week  Revolutions as changes of worldview, resolution of revolutions, and progress through revolutions and riticisms of Kuhn.
16. Week  Final Exam.
 -- RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
  Butterfield, H., The Origins of Modern Science, New York 1960. Popper, K., Bilimsel Araştırmanın Mantığı, Çeviren: İlknur Aka & İbrahim Turan, İstanbul 1998. Kuhn, T.S., Bilimsel Devrimlerin Yapısı, Çeviren: Nilüfer Kuyaş, İstanbul 1982. Topdemir, Hüseyin Gazi, “Kuhn ve Bilimsel Devrimlerin Yapısı Üzerine Bir Değerlendirme”, Felsefe Dünyası, Sayı 36, Ankara 2002, ss. 45-62.
 -- PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS
  Lecture, Question & Answer, Demonstration.
 -- WORK PLACEMENT(S)
  Not Applicable
 -- ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Percentage
 Mid-terms
1
40
 Assignment
1
10
 Exercises
0
0
 Projects
0
0
 Practice
0
0
 Quiz
0
0
 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade  
50
 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade  
50
 -- WORKLOAD
 Efficiency  Total Week Count  Weekly Duration (in hour)  Total Workload in Semester
 Theoretical Study Hours of Course Per Week
14
3
42
 Practising Hours of Course Per Week
0
 Reading
4
5
20
 Searching in Internet and Library
4
5
20
 Designing and Applying Materials
0
 Preparing Reports
0
 Preparing Presentation
2
5
10
 Presentation
2
3
6
 Mid-Term and Studying for Mid-Term
4
5
20
 Final and Studying for Final
5
6
30
 Other
0
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
148
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
5.92
 ECTS: 
6
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
 PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1Students have got the sufficiency about "department of philosophy and related fields teaching" and "educational sciences". They know the laws and rules about their profession.X
2Students take the theoretical and practical knowledge which is interested in "department of philosophy and related fields teaching" and "educational sciences" to solve the educational problems.X
3Students determine the educational problems and offer a solution these problems. They choose and practise the methods of analytic about these problems.X
4Students explain the theory, the model, the principle and the generalization about philosophy, psychology, sociology and logic. According to this explanation, they declare the basic principles of department of philosophy and related fields teaching.X
5Students know the individual, peripheral and social factors which have an effect on the human relations. By this way, they acquire effective listening, positive feedback and creative problem solving.X
6Students acquire some suffiencies that inquiry, evaluation, decision making, analyse and syntheses, relating between events, comparison, gain a different viewpoint, life-wide learning, logical thinking etc.X
7Students organize activity and material building about related field teaching. They choose and use the educational technology for quality education activity.X
8Students research and evaulate scientifically the notions and the idea about profession of a teacher and the education technology.X
9Students know the basic notion of growing and know the characteristics of adolescence and adult periods.
10Students research related literature and use data bases. They use effectively the library, internet, the museum and the research center.X
11They acquire the skills that learning to learn, self-regulation, life long learning, critical thinking, creative thinking, logical thinking.
12Students obey the professional and ethical rules and participate in the collusive practices. They protect the values of democratic, social, scientific, cultural and ethical.