Methodological module of Logic, History and Philosophy of Science Specialty  

The aim of this course is to present a publicly relevant debate on a topic of interest for logicians, historians or philosophers of science. We want to introduce the student to the intellectual style of these three disciplines, in particular the ability to clearly articulate your arguments. We also want to show the social relevance of this approach

In addition, our university library will contribute a module on information management skills (in Spanish only). Last, but not least, since every student in the program has to take this course we want them to build a research community that will help them throughout their studies.

This course provides a general introduction that does not presuppose any particular background. If you want to follow this course in English, please do so only if you can read and write it correctly. Otherwise, we will transfer you to the Spanish-speaking section.

Sophie Keeling

Monday:  16.00-19.00

Tuesday: 11.00-14.00
E-mail: sophie.keeling@fsof.uned.es

COMPETENCIAS GENERALES

CG3. Dominar las bases metodológicas y los conocimientos que permitan la integración de los múltiples saberes filosóficos en un proyecto de trabajo personal.

COMPETENCIAS ESPECÍFICAS

CE2. Poseer una familiaridad con la actividad investigadora en filosofía gracias al estudio detallado de obras de autores relevantes, a la interacción con profesores que están desarrollando tareas de investigación propias y con los otros alumnos del Máster en los foros de cada asignatura.

CE3. Usar fuentes bibliográficas, primarias y secundarias, en el área del pensamiento filosófico; saber utilizar las bases de datos (en ambos casos tanto en papel como electrónicas) y aplicar estos conocimientos en la elaboración de trabajos académicos y de investigación filosófica.

The main three goals of this course are as follows:

• Analysing a current philosophical topic or controversy, delineating the contours of a current debate and summarizing and evaluating the main positions in the debate.
• Acquiring the basic information management skills required for conducting research in philosophy
• Building a students’ community that will support its members throughout the Master

For the first half of the course, students will write two essays of up to 2,000 words each.

The second half of the course will be taught and graded the library staff and will concern bibliographic and information techniques useful to researchers. This part of the course must be passed in order to obtain the credits for Topics in LHFC. 

If a student does not pass the library module in February, s/he will take it again in September. 

In the first part of this course, we will discuss chapters from the core textbook:

Miyazono, Kengo and Lisa Bortolotti (2021). Philosophy of Psychology: An Introduction. Wiley. ISBN: 978-1-509-51548-6

Additional texts and references will be uploaded in the course platform. 

They will be provided on line. 

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is an excellent resource to consult for background on relevant topics.