Class Theory and Methodology of Scientific Knowledge

This Course aims to introduce the student in the problematic of scientific knowledge and research.  Scientific truth is provisional, which forces us to have an attitude of weighting and openness to dialogue. In this sense, it is intended to awaken the student to the danger of dogmatism and get him to understand the scientific knowledge as a search process that we must cultivate.

1 - Scientific knowledge

1.2 - The function of epistemological obstacles

1.3 - The problem of objectivity and subjectivity

1.4 - Thinking like remembering

1.5 - Think like memory and imagination

2 - The method and ethics of knowledge

2.1 - Science and philosophy as interrogative practices

2.2 - The sciences of nature and the humanities

2.3 - The problem of the method: epistemological reflections.

2.4 - The ethics of knowledge

3 - Origin possibilities of knowledge

3.1 - Possibilities of knowledge

3.2 - Origin of knowledge

3.3 - The function of language in the process of knowledge
3.4 - Possibilities of knowledge 

3.5 - Origin of knowledge 

3.6 - Truth and power

To achieve the learning, we organized the process by integrating active methodologies. This entire teaching-learning process is structured in such a way as to require students to actively participate in the construction of their knowledge process.

Student participation involves the completion of tasks that require:

- Individual research. Students are confronted with situations that appeal to the need to know how to individually try to answer the doubts that are asked throughout the classes;

- Group search. Students are confronted with situations that appeal to the need for cooperative learning.

-Debates. The students are confronted with situations that require the confrontation of ideas, the development of critical thinking.

In the different problem situations, the student has to express his/her knowledge orally and in writing.

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