After completing the course, students will be able to:

• Understand the basic problems of the history and philosophy of science.
• Discuss some of the key issues of history and philosophy of science and to develop techniques of dialogue and argumentation.

• Promoting free, creative and inductive thinking
• Exercise of criticism and self-criticism

Science as: a cognitive acquisition of reality and a social cultural phenomenon. The Position and Role of Science in the Structure and Development of Society. Issues of theory of knowledge, logic and methodology in scientific research. Sciences in history. Diversification, integration of sciences and interdisciplinarity. Novelties and traditions, laws governing the development of science and technology. The subject of scientific activity. Theories, Directions, Trends and Approaches to the Philosophy of Science.

The course is structured around two axes:
A) Important landmarks  in the history of individual sciences (astronomy, logic, mathematics, physics, etc.); and related philosophical theories.
B) Basic theoretical trends and individual trends in philosophy and history of science, logical empiricism and then (study by R. Carnap, K. Popper, T.S.  Kuhn, I. Lakatos, P. Feyerabend, A. Koyre, G. Bachelard, G. Canguilhem, L. Geymonat, E. Bitsakis).

Use of Information and Communication Technology

Assessment Method

Written final examination (100%)

• Book in Eudoxus [13255340]: Η γνώση στη διαλεκτική της κοινωνικής εξέλιξης,Περικλής Παυλίδης
• Book in Eudoxus [538]: ΤΟ ΠΑΡΕΛΘΟΝ ΤΩΝ ΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΩΝ ΩΣ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ, ΓΑΒΡΟΓΛΟΥ ΚΩΣΤΑΣ