070335 SE BA-Seminar - Scientific revolutions: Historiography, problems and new perspectives
Gildo Santos
10.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
Sa 11.06. 08:00-13:00 Hörsaal 12 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Anmeldung von Di 12.04.2022 15:30 bis Di 26.04.2022 12:00
Abmeldung bis Di 26.04.2022 15:30
Samstag 11.06. 08:00 - 13:00 Hörsaal 12 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Freitag 17.06. 08:00 - 13:00 Hörsaal 12 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Samstag 18.06. 08:00 - 13:00 Hörsaal 12 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Freitag 24.06. 08:00 - 13:00 Hörsaal 12 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Samstag 25.06. 08:00 - 13:00 Hörsaal 12 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
- Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung
OBJECTIVE: To introduce relevant classic and contemporary historiography about the European Scientific Revolution, and its more recent reinterpretations, locating and discussing significant contributions to investigate some consecrated and new problems, which have generated themes for historical and historiographical research, specially under the light of documentary sources.
JUSTIFICATION
Although there is a general agreement that there were large transformations in European Science and Natural Philosophy between the 16th and 18th centuries, there is not a consensus among historians of science as to major historiographic questions for a deeper understanding of the so-called Scientific Revolution. Many impasses derive from considering only social and economic matters, or on the contrary from highlighting just cognitive problems, hindering a more comprehensive understanding of contemporary science. There is a conventional, well-stablished historiography, which has been more recently challenged, and ranging from a complete rejection of the concept of "Scientific Revolution" to the relativization of its merits, when compared to the evolution of sciences in the Islamic or Chinese world. Anyway, the opinion of many historians is that the period of the European Scientific Revolution is the basic idea that fostered the establishment of the field of History of Science, independently of the way the problem has been discussed.
METHODOLOGY
The program will be developed in the manner of seminars prepared and given by the students, under the guidance of the professor.
PROGRAM
1) General introduction: revolutionary x gradual transitions in the social process of knowledge. What defines modern science? Is there a permanent revolution in science?
2) The early and contemporary internalism x externalism dispute
3) Natural philosophy, science and practical arts as historical categories
4) Mechanicism and its role in knowledge
5) The relationships among science, religion and magic
6) The value and limits of experimentalism in science
7) Scientific narratives centered in individuals, institutions, and collectivities
8) Ideology in Science: a choice or a must?
9) Scientific and historiographical polarizations: gender, nationality, and others
10) The role of scientific controversies for the advancement of knowledge, and the present canon of the Scientific Revolution
- Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel
Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab
Attendance with active participation, careful reading of course readings, research and composition of a substantial seminar research paper.
Prüfungsstoff
The final paper is a paper of approximately 20-25 pages on a research topic.
- Literatur
Note: this is the initial bibliography to be used for the seminars, and it will be adjusted considering the number of students enrolled and other circumstances. Other relevant bibliography will be cited during classes.
FEYERABEND, Paul. Against method (London and New York: Verso Books, 2010 - other editions available)
GRANT, Edward. The_foundations_of_modern_science_in_the_Middle_Ages: Their religions, institutions and intellectual contexts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)
HESSEN, Boris. The social and economic roots of Newton’s Principia (Springer; Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 2009 other editions available)
JACOB, Margaret. The scientific revolution. A brief history with documents (Boston: Bedford. St. Martin’s, 2010),
KOESTLER, Arthur. The sleepwalkers. A History of man’s changing vision of the Universe (London: Penguin, 1990 other editions available)
KOYRÉ, Alexandre. From the closed world to the infinite universe (Kettering: Angelico Press, 2016 other editions available)
KUHN, Thomas. The structure of scientific revolutions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012)
ROSSI, Paolo. Philosophy, technology and the arts in the Early Modern Era (New York: Torchbooks, 1970)
SHAPIN, Steven. The scientific revolution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996)
ZILSEL, Edgar. The social origins of modern science (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003)
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