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Knowledge philosophy of science, its terminology, methods, questions and theories as well as the capability of analyzing, interrelating and reflecting it; advanced philosophical reasoning.

History of science; science and the problem of demarcation; truth; subjectivity, objectivity and intersubjectivity; causality; explanation and prognosis; laws of nature; theory-ladenness of observation; the postulate of value-freedom; critical rationalism; logical empirism; constructivism; relativism; scientific progress; science, society and power; methodology of natural sciences; methodology of social sciences and humanities.

Presentations, discussions, reading

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to be announced during lectures