6. Course Content

№

Name of themes

Volume of hours

Literature

Point of current control

1

Introduction

       The subject of the history and philosophy of science. Laws of development of scientific knowledge. Components of science as a social institution.

       The place and role of science in culture: scientism and anti-scientism. The phenomenon of science as a subject of special analysis: internalism and externalism.

1

Main Reading:

2, 6, 9, 17, 24

Further Reading:

6, 14, 15, 20, 21, 24

0,4

2

Ideological foundations of science

      Science in the culture system. Features of scientific knowledge. Worldview role in the development of the philosophy of science.

      The interaction between science and other forms of spiritual activity of person. Science and art. Science and religion. Humanistic horizons of science.

1

Main Reading:

6, 9, 17, 24

Further Reading:

1, 3, 6, 20, 21, 24, 25

0,3

3

Functions of Science

Production and multiplication of certain knowledge as the main function of science. General functions of science. The social functions of science. The impact of science on society's needs.

Science and global issues of our time. Science and modern education system.

1

Main Reading:

6, 9, 17, 24

Further Reading:

1, 6, 20, 24

0,4

4

The emergence and formation of science. Science in the Ancient World, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Features attitudes toward the world and outlook of the ancient cultures of human and pre-science. Research programs of Antiquity.

Arab-Islamic science of the Middle Ages. Scientific knowledge in the West during the Middle Ages.

Copernicus's heliocentric system of the world. Background of the experimental method.

2

Main Reading:

1, 7, 8, 10, 11, 19, 20, 23, 25

Further Reading:

2, 9, 12, 13, 14, 20,

0,6

5

Modern science in Europa - classical stage of development of Science

       The formation of modern science. Socialization and institutionalization of science. The problem of method in science. The rational and empirical methodologies in science (Rene Descartes and Francis Bacon). The mechanical worldview of Isaac Newton.

German classical philosophy and classical science.

1

Main Reading:

3, 4, 8, 12, 13,

16, 24

Further Reading:

3, 7, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 20, 23

0,4

6

Basic concepts and directions of the non-classical and post-nonclassical stage of development of the history and philosophy of science.

      Concepts of science: the main approaches in the philosophy and methodology of science. Epistemology of neo-Kantianism: Baden and Marburg schools.

      The positivist tradition in the philosophy of science. Positivism, Empiric and neo-Positivism. The methodological concept of post-Positivism.

       Post-modernism and science. The ambivalent nature of modern science.

2

Main Reading:

5, 6, 14, 15, 17, 18, 21, 22

Further Reading:

1, 2, 4, 9, 14, 20, 21, 25

0,6

7

The structure and level of scientific knowledge. Methodology of Science

       Scientific knowledge as a complex developing system. The variety of types of scientific knowledge. Empirical and theoretical levels, the criteria of discernment. The concept of the scientific method. Techniques and methodologies. The variety of methods of scientific research.

Dialectics, systematic approach and systematic analysis. Becoming a synergetic paradigm.

1

Main Reading:

5, 9, 17, 21, 22, 24

Further Reading:

1, 6, 11, 24, 25

0,4

8

Science as a profession. Ideals and norms of Science

      Science as a profession and a particular type of activity. The norms and values of the scientific community. Universalism, collectivism, unselfishness and organized skepticism as the features of the scientific ethos.

     Science in Kazakhstan. Priority areas of Science in the Republic of Kazakhstan

1

Main Reading:

5, 6, 9, 17, 18, 21, 22, 24

Further Reading:

1, 2, 4, 21,22, 24

0,3

9

The philosophical foundations of science and scientific world

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

       The concept of the scientific world. Historical forms of the scientific world.

       Global evolution as a contemporary scientific world. The anthropic principle in cosmology.

1

Main Reading:

5, 6, 9, 17, 18, 21, 22, 24

Further Reading:

4, 5, 6, 21, 22, 24, 25

0,4

10

Scientific traditions and scientific revolution

       Interaction of traditions and the emergence of new knowledge. Scientific revolutions as rebuilding the foundations of science. Problems typology of scientific revolutions.

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

1

Main Reading:

4, 8, 17, 18, 21, 22, 24

Further Reading:

2, 4, 21, 22, 24

0,3

11

History and Philosophy of Sciences and Engineering

      Sciences and technological development. Classification of Sciences. Physics as the foundation of science. Biology and the formation of contemporary evolutionary view of the world. Mathematical methods and the formation of scientific knowledge.

      The main problems of contemporary philosophy of technology.

1

Main Reading:

5, 9, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 24

Further Reading:

1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 22, 23

0,3

12

History and philosophy of the social sciences and humanities

     Philosophy as an integrated form of scientific knowledge. Formation of scientific disciplines of social and humanitarian cycle.

The phenomenon of social sciences and humanities and civilizational value. Social sciences in the world scientific community.

1

Main Reading:

6, 9, 17, 18, 21, 22, 24

Further Reading:

4, 6, 8, 19, 24

0,3

13

Philosophical problems of the Global Civilization

      The global civilization and its specificity. The historical concept of civilization and their relationship with science.

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

    Formation of the Kazakh civilization identity.

    The global context of science.

1

Main Reading:

6, 9, 17, 18, 21, 22, 24

Further Reading:

2, 4, 6, 16, 21, 22, 24

0,3