Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia

History and Philosophy of Science and Technology I

Code

11397

Academic unit

Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia

Department

Departamento de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas

Credits

9.0

Teacher in charge

Ana Maria Oliveira Carneiro

Weekly hours

3

Teaching language

Português

Prerequisites

None

Subject matter

1.  Notions on the Historiography of Science and Technology

2.  Fundamental issues in the Philosophy of Science and Technology

3.  Science and Technology as metrics of progress

4.  From the Enlightenment to Contemporaneity

5.  New research paradigms in post-World War II.

 

 

Bibliography

H. Collins, T. Pinch, T. (eds.), The Golem at Large: what you should know about technology, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998

 P. J.  Bowler, I. R. Morus, Making Modern Science. A Historical Survey, Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2005

S. Psillos,  M. Curd (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science, Londres/Nova Iorque: Routledge, 2008

T. G. Cook., History of Education in Europe, Nova Iorque: Beekman Pub,1974

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