module co-ordinator: Dr Helena Sheehan
week 2
scientific method: what is it ? what tensions are within it ? how far does
it extend ?
Life Story (BBC Horizon)
week 3
sociology of science
sociology
of knowledge: does it apply to science ?
week 4
history of science: how is the history of science connected to the history
of philosophy, economics, politics, culture in the modern period ?
the making of
the modern mind
philosophy of science
timeline
week 5 philosophy of science: the trajectory from positivism to neo-positivism to post-positivism
week 6 marxism
as epistemology & history, philosophy & sociology of science
marxism & the
philosophy of science: a critical history
with multimedia presentation
JD Bernal and the science of science
also Bukharin / Gramsci / Haldane / Caudwellscience & socialism: marxism in power
a case study of the convergences / collisions of science / philosophy / politics
the october revolution and soviet intellectual life in the early days
ideas and purges: soviet intellectual life and the next years
the comintern: the beginning and the end
week 7
who was Lysenko
? what was Lysenkoism ?
week 8 the
rise of the repressed in the history of knowledge
alternative approaches to science & gender / class / race / nation
the "pc wars", the canon, science and philosophy
multimedia
presentation on class, race, gender
Brecht questions
from a worker who reads
week 9
science & gender: is it enough to let women into science or is there
more involved ?
class debate
week 10
science & religion: compatible or contradictory ?
a debate on the relationship between science & religion
questions of criteria 1999
debate
week
11-12 class presentations
critical
& cultural perspectives on science
index
page aims
& agenda page reading
list video
references course
diary guidelines
school
of communications at dcu
e-mail to lecturer:
helena.sheehan@dcu.ie
e-mail to class: cm535@list.dcu.ie