MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN

SAKEN SEIFULLIN KAZAKH AGRO TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY

"HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE"

TRAINING COMPLEX

for Magistrates all specialties

Astana 2016

SAKEN SEIFULLIN KAZAKH AGRO TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY

Reviewed and approved for publication on the meeting methodological Council Saken Seifullin Kazakh Agro Technical University Protocol №__ «__» _________ 20 __

"Affirmed" First Deputy Chairman of the S. Seifullin Kazakh Agro-Technical University _____________ Abdirov A.M. «__» _________ 20 __

Educational-methodical complex of discipline

"History and Philosophy of Science"

Compiled by: Doctor of philosophical sciences, Associate Professor A.K. Abdina

Reviewers: Doctor of philosophical sciences, Professor G.T. Telebayev

                   Doctor of philosophical sciences, Associate Professor K.A. Medeuova

Abstract

Educational-methodical complex of discipline "History and Philosophy of Science" is designed to teach undergraduates of Saken Seifullin Kazakh Agro Technical University. The purpose of discipline "History and Philosophy of Science" is to introduce graduate students to the structure of scientific knowledge, the methods of scientific research, with the functions of scientific theories and laws; the formation of the scientific way of thinking undergraduates, increasing their ideological outlook; development of ideas about the scientific criteria and requirements to be met by scientific research and its results.

Knowledge of tools and methods of modern science is a prerequisite for independent creative scientific work and to distinguish genuine from pseudo-scientific work constructions.

Undergraduates must acquire the knowledge, skills, skills needed for successful analysis, philosophical, epistemological, logical and methodological issues that arise in their professional activities.

Reviewed and approved at a meeting of the Department of Philosophy

Protocol №__ «__» _________ 20 __

Reviewed and recommended to the meeting of the methodical commission of the Faculty of Humanities

 Protocol №__ «__» _________ 20 __

Contents

Introduction ....................................................................................................................................4

Syllabus ..........................................................................................................................................5

Handout ........................................................................................................................................18

Materials for seminars ..................................................................................................................41

Materials for independent work of a student ........……………………………….......................47

Materials for the control of knowledge of students .....................................................................48

Glossary ........................................................................................................................................51

References ................................................................................................................................... 54