851-0132-04L  What is Science for?

SemesterFrühjahrssemester 2017
DozierendeA. J. Lustig
Periodizitäteinmalige Veranstaltung
LehrspracheEnglisch



Lehrveranstaltungen

NummerTitelUmfangDozierende
851-0132-04 SWhat is Science For?
Unregelmässige Veranstaltung vom 03.03.17 bis 12.05.17.
28s Std.
Fr13:15-17:00ML H 43 »
A. J. Lustig

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KurzbeschreibungThis course will explore five different ways that investigators since the 17th century have explained the workings of the natural world: natural history, discovering what exists in the cosmos; analysis of nature's component parts; experiment to create new things and phenomena; technoscientific application for power and profit; and hermeneutics, attempts to answer broad questions about meaning.
LernzielThis course will explore five different ways of asking questions about the natural world that have characterized the emergence of modern science since the seventeenth century: natural history, the project of enumerating and ordering the kinds and individuals that make up the cosmos; analysis of nature's component parts by breaking larger elements into smaller ones; experiment to create things and phenomena that have never previously existed; technoscientific application to commodify the natural world, for power and profit; and hermeneutics, the attempt to understand or create meaning in and from the cosmos. The course is intended primarily to give students in the sciences, engineering, and mathematics a broader, contextual view of the history of science.
Case studies will include:
for natural history: the development of biological systematics, the quantification projects of the nineteenth century, and the development of the theory of evolution by natural selection;
for analysis: the revolution in astronomy and terrestrial physics of the seventeenth century, the project to analyze all human knowledge in the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert, and the invention of rational production;
for experiment: the eighteenth-century science of electricity, the invention of modern plant and animal breeding, and Justus Liebig's invention of a new way to produce chemists and chemistry in the nineteenth century;
for technoscience: industrial R&D and the synthesis of nylon, and tensions between science and commerce embodied in the tobacco industry;
for hermeneutics: seventeenth-century world-readings, eugenics, and "natural" and "human" kinds.

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ECTS Kreditpunkte3 KP
PrüfendeA. J. Lustig
Formbenotete Semesterleistung
PrüfungsspracheEnglisch
RepetitionRepetition ohne erneute Belegung der Lerneinheit möglich.

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