Origins of Scientific Thinking

3 ECTS credits
90 u studietijd

Aanbieding 1 met studiegidsnummer 1023225AEW voor werkstudenten in het 2e semester met een inleidend bachelor niveau.

Semester

2e semester

Inschrijving onder examencontract

Mogelijk

Beoordelingsvoet

Beoordeling (0 tot 20)

2e zittijd mogelijk

Inschrijvingsvereisten

Dit opleidingsonderdeel is enkel toegankelijk voor werkstudenten.

Onderwijstaal

Engels

Faculteit

Faculteit Letteren en Wijsbegeerte

Verantwoordelijke vakgroep

History, Archaeology, Arts, Philosophy and Ethics

Onderwijsteam

Cornelis Johannes Schilt (titularis)

Onderdelen en contacturen

26 contacturen Hoorcollege
13 contacturen Werkcolleges, practica en oefeningen
60 contacturen Zelfstudie en externe werkvormen

Inhoud

In this introductory course, students will be familiarized with an important transformation within European history: the so-called 'Scientific Revolution' which came to full fruition during the seventeenth century, and which led to the birth of modern scientific thinking. This course will focus on developments within what we today call physics, chemistry, medicine, astronomy, and biology, but also on the humanities. At the same time, attention will be drawn to a series of crucial sixteenth- and seventeenth-century epistemological, ontological and social changes without which the emergence of the 'Scientific Revolution' simply cannot be understood.

In Part I of the course, we will go back to ancient times and discover the roots of modern science, leading up to the ‘Scientific Revolution’. In Part II, we will discuss in detail the various developments in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century science, that collectively have become known as the ‘Scientific Revolution’. In Part III, we will develop an informed critique of the concept: how apt was the term ‘Scientific Revolution’? All of this will be done by drawing upon important primary sources and the latest insights from contemporary history and philosophy of science. Finally, in Part IV of the course, we will explore a number of important primary sources in greater detail, on which students will write their final paper.

Studiemateriaal

Digitaal cursusmateriaal (Vereist) : Reader

Bijkomende info

The course reader will contain canonical or state-of-the-art literature. The reader will be distributed electronically and free of charge.

Leerresultaten

Algemene competenties

- The student is capable to describe, to contextualize and to illustrate the roots of modern science leading up to the 'Scientific Revolution'.

- The student is capable to describe, to contextualize and to illustrate sixteenth- and seventeenth-century transformations that are relevant for understanding the 'Scientific Revolution'.

- The student is able to explain the role and importance of several sixteenth- and seventeenth-century actors and their contributions to science.

- The student is able to explain the old narrative of the 'Scientific Revolution' and to critically assess its merits and shortcomings by means of the state of the art.

- The student can provide a detailed exposé of the differences and communalities between the scholarly analyses on the 'Scientific Revolution' that are treated in the course.

- Based on the knowledge obtained during the course, the student is able to adequately contextualize a chosen primary source in a paper.

Beoordelingsinformatie

De beoordeling bestaat uit volgende opdrachtcategorieën:
Examen Schriftelijk bepaalt 50% van het eindcijfer

ZELF Praktijkopdracht bepaalt 20% van het eindcijfer

ZELF Paper bepaalt 30% van het eindcijfer

Binnen de categorie Examen Schriftelijk dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:

Examen schriftelijk met een wegingsfactor 50 en aldus 50% van het totale eindcijfer.

Binnen de categorie ZELF Praktijkopdracht dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:

Activerende werkvormen met een wegingsfactor 20 en aldus 20% van het totale eindcijfer.

Binnen de categorie ZELF Paper dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:

Paper met een wegingsfactor 30 en aldus 30% van het totale eindcijfer.

Aanvullende info mbt evaluatie

The grade for this course is determined by: (1) the written exam (50% of the total grade); (2) the student's participation in the activating exercises that require preparation (20% of the total grade), and (3) the written paper (30% of the total grade). Results obtained for (2) and (3) can be transferred to the resit exam.

Toegestane onvoldoende

Kijk in het aanvullend OER van je faculteit na of een toegestane onvoldoende mogelijk is voor dit opleidingsonderdeel.

Academische context