PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

a) Examination of basic concept of Philosophy of Science;

b) Examination of a selected operational method of contemporary scientific research;

c) Introduction of the basic concepts of First Order Logic.

a) Basic concepts of Philosophy of Science: causal explanation, verification, falsification, induction, scientific law, paradigm, scientific controversy;

b) computer simulations and computational approach to science;

c) basic logical concepts (arguments, operators, truth tables, propositional and predicate calculus).

A Questioni Istituzionali di Filosofia della Scienza (3 CFU).

Testi:

- Okasha S., Il primo Libro di filosofia della scienza, Einaudi, 2006.

B Filosofia della scienza e modelli computazionali (2 CFU).

Testi:

- Parisi, D., Simulazioni, Il Mulino, 2001.

C Elementi di Logica (4 CFU).

Testi:

- A. Varzi, J. Nolt, D. Rohatyn, Logica, Mc-Graw Hill, 2007, pp. 1-217.