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EPISTEMOLOGY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES Single discipline educational activity
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Disciplinary Sector:
LOGIC AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
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Objectives Contents Reasoning and explanation in science; the problem of induction; problems-theories-critics; verificationism versus falsificationism; objectivity of historical and social knowledge; methodological individualism and methodological holism; human action; social order; theories of action rationality; study of social interactions; individual autonomy and social, cultural and natural determinisms.
Extended Syllabus MI - Institutional part (CFU 6)
Reasoning and explanation in science; the problem of induction; problems-theories-critics; verificationism versus falsificationism; objectivity of historical and social knowledge; methodological individualism and methodological holism; human action; social order; theories of action rationality.
MAT 1 - Specific part (CFU 3)
Study of social interactions; individual autonomy and social, cultural and natural influences and determinisms.
Recommended Bibliography (6 CFU)
A. Bicchieri, The Rules We Live By + M. Van Hees, Explaining Institutions: A Defence of Reductionism + D. Sperber, Selection and Attraction in Evolution, all the three essays are in: F. Guala, D. Steel, The Philosophy of Social Science Reader, Routledge, 2011.
B. Oliverio, Dall’imitazione alla cooperazione. La ricerca sociale e le sue sfide, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino, 2012.
- K. R. Popper, “Science: Conjectures and Refutations”, in K. R. Popper, Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge, Basic Books, 1962, from paragraph I to paragraph IX included.
Methods of Provision Teaching Methods Frontal lessons and seminars
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
Written evaluation with open and/or closed questions.
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