Intermediate control 2

Quest - The methodology of the research

The second part of the course "History and Philosophy of Science" is devoted to the analysis of the philosophy of science. The goal of the task - to develop of methodology of the masters research.

The form of the task - the preparation and protection of presentations.

Assessment criteria of intermediate control

95-100 - A (clear and logical presentation, availability of analytical and critical approach in revealing the theme, full answers to the questions of the teacher);

90-94 – A- (logical presentation, the presence of a critical approach to the disclosure of topics, answers to the questions of the teacher);

85-89 - B+ (full disclosure topics, logical presentation, answers to questions of the teacher);

80-84 - B (full disclosure topics, good presentation, incomplete answers to the questions of the teacher);

75-79 – B- (quite full disclosure topics, a good presentation, difficulties with answers to the questions the teacher);

70-74 - C+ (quite full disclosure topics, a weak presentation, difficulties with answers to the questions the teacher);

65-69 - C (incomplete disclosure topics, a weak presentation, difficulties with answers to the questions of the teacher);

60-64 – C- (partial disclosure topics, a weak presentation, difficulties with answers to the questions of the teacher);

55-59 - D+ (partial disclosure topics, a weak presentation, absence of responses to the questions of the teacher);

50-54 - D (weak opening theme, a bad presentation, absence of responses to the questions of the teacher);

0-49 - F (absence of presentation).

Total control

The subject "History and Philosophy of Science" has an exam. To the undergraduates will be offered tickets for choice. Each ticket contains 3 questions from the list of examination questions. To the undergraduates are given time to prepare for a response from the 20 to 30 minutes. The response time of the ticket depends on the level of preparedness of a student.

Issues for total control

1. Subject of the history and philosophy of science.

2. Laws of development of scientific knowledge.

3. Components of science as a social institution.

4. The place and role of science in culture: scientism and anti-scientism.

5. The phenomenon of science as a subject of special analysis: internalism and externalism.

6. Features of scientific knowledge.

7. Worldview's role in the development of the philosophy of science.

8. The interaction between science and other forms of spiritual activity of man.

9. Science and Art.

10. Science and Religion.

11. Humanistic horizons of science.

12. Production and multiplication of certain knowledge as the main function of science.

13. General functions of science.

14. Social functions of science.

15. The impact of science on society's needs.

16. Science and global issues of our time.

17. Science and the modern educational system.

18. Features and attitudes toward the world outlook of ancient human and previous-science.

19. Research programs of Antiquity.

20. The Arab-Muslim science of the Middle Ages.

21. Scientific knowledge in the West during the Middle Ages.

22. The medieval university as the center of knowledge.

23. Heliocentric system of Copernicus.

24. Background of the experimental method.

25. Formation of modern science.

26. Socialization and institutionalization of science.

27. The problem of method in science.

28. The rational and empirical science methodology (Rene Descartes and Francis Bacon).

29. The mechanical worldview of Isaac Newton.

30. German classical philosophy and classical science.

31. The concept of science: the main approaches in the philosophy and methodology of science.

32. Epistemology of neo-Kantianism: Baden and Marburg schools.

33. The positivist tradition in the philosophy of science.

34. Positivism, Empiric and neo Positivism.

35. The methodological concept of post-Positivism.

36. Post-modernism and science.

37. The ambivalent nature of modern science.

38. Scientific knowledge as a complex developing system.

39. The variety of types of scientific knowledge.

40. Empirical and theoretical levels, the criteria for discernment.

41. The concept of the scientific method.

42. The method and methodology.

43. A variety of methods of scientific research.

44. The dialectic, systematic approach and systematic analysis.

45. Formation of synergetic paradigm.

46. ​​Science as a profession and a particular type of activity.

47. The norms and values ​​of the scientific community.

48. Universalism, collectivism, unselfishness and organized skepticism as the features of the scientific ethos.

49. The concept of thinking and style of its cultural and historical conditioning.

50. The history of the development of science in Kazakhstan.

51. Priority areas of science in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

52. The philosophical ideas as the basis of ontological postulates of science, epistemological standards of scientific research and axiological systems.

53. The concept of the scientific world.

54. Historical forms the scientific world.

55. The global evolution as a modern scientific picture of the world.

56. The anthropic principle in cosmology.

57. The interaction of tradition and the emergence of new knowledge.

58. Scientific Revolution as the restructuring of the foundations of science.

59. Problems of typology of scientific revolutions.

60. Global Revolution and the change in the type of scientific rationality: classical, nonclassical and post-nonclassical science.

61. Natural and technological development.

62. The classification of the natural sciences.

63. Physics as the foundation of science.

64. Biology and the formation of modern evolutionary view of the world.

65. Mathematical methods and the formation of scientific knowledge.

66. The main problems of contemporary philosophy of technology.

67. Philosophy as an integrated form of scientific knowledge.

68. Formation of the scientific disciplines of social and humanitarian cycle.

69. The phenomenon of social sciences and humanities and civilizational value.

70. The social and cultural conditioning of scientific knowledge.

71. The modern global civilization and its specificity.

72. The historical concept of civilization and their relationship with science.

73. Traditionalist and technogenic types of civilizational development and its basic values.

74. Formation of the Kazakh civilization identity.

75. The global context of science.