1 October Overview of the course
8 October Origins of science and technology: primitive, classical and feudal societies
15 October Transition from the medieval to the modern world:
knowledge as revelation / faith
versus 
knowledge as experiment / reason
22 October Epistemological debates of the modern era and their roots in socio-historical experience: rationalism v empiricism
29 October The enlightenment and romanticist reaction against the enlightenment
Strivings for synthesis: Kant and Hegel
5 November The impact of evolutionary ideas: the battle over Darwinism
12 November The industrial revolution, changes in the social division of labour, academic specialisation, scientific professionalisation
19 November Marxism as epistemology and philosophy of science
26 November Science and technology under socialism
3 December The trajectory from positivism to neo-positivism to post-positivism:
10 December Pragmatism, radical empiricism, process philosophy
17 December Modernism versus postmodernism in science and technology
Link
to Helena Sheehan home page
E-mail: sheehanh@ccmail.dcu.ie
E-mail: helena.sheehan@dcu.ie
