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This course aims to encourage general critical reflections regarding the role of science and the scientific method in generation of knowledge. The central objective thereby is to discuss the relative standing of science amongst other expressions of human quest for understanding and interpreting the natural world and the human condition.
This course addresses the quintessence of the scientific worldview in the context of other traditions and institutions invested in understanding and interpreting the world. An introductory treatment of science will be followed by a number of discussions with representatives of traditions and institutions pertaining to the arts, philosophy, religion, politics, and ethics. A central trust of these discussions will address the "how" and "why" questions, their meaning as relevant to the natural world and social settings, and if and to which extent they can be answered by science alone.
SCHEDULE FOR WINTERTERM 2017/2018:
All units require full and mandatory presence.
Contact:
lecture2593@tuwien.ac.at (Subject: Number of lecture & issue)
E-Mails to other adresses can and will not be processed.
Presence, Active contribution to the discussion in class, timely delivery of high-quality deliverables.
In Detail:
Note: Late hand-in of deliverables will without exception neither be accepted nor processed
Note: There is a "pre-work" required to perform to be able to attend (in TUWEL!)
Interest on the discussed issues.