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Cursus: FI-MHPSPLS
FI-MHPSPLS
Philosophy of the Modern Life Sciences
Cursus informatie
CursuscodeFI-MHPSPLS
Studiepunten (EC)7,5
Cursusdoelen
This course aims to:
- acquaint students with some of the major themes in philosophy of biology in its social and historical context
- provide an entrance into contemporary philosophical debates in philosophy of biology at the interface with history of biology and cognitive science
- enable students to reflect on recent developments in biology from a philosophical perspective
- provide a platform for writing a philosophical essay on a topic relevant to one of the course's themes, based on primary and secondary literature.
Inhoud
This course provides an overview of key philosophical issues in the modern life sciences. We begin with a broad historical overview of pivotal conceptual and theoretical developments from the second half of the nineteenth century onwards, before looking in detail at several central topics in contemporary philosophy of the life sciences. Examples of these include debates on the nature of the Evolutionary Synthesis and contemporary challenges to it, conceptual issues in molecular and systems biology, the epistemology of data-intensive biology, and themes in the evolution of cognition and culture.
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