Course: Science Methodology

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Course title Science Methodology
Course code FES/DMEV
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Doctoral
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 15
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Linda Bohdan, doc. RNDr. CSc.
  • Čapek Jan, prof. Ing. CSc.
Course content
Theory and scientific knowledge Role of metodology and methodics activities essence Teoretical research as complex identification system Stages of scientific thinking development Characteristic signs of science Science, information, management European national research policy dimension National Czech Republic research programme conception

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
The subject is oriented towards the metodology of science as principles and approaches leading to scientific acts as well as scientific systems logical analysis explanation. The essence of science and its position in the framework of social thinking and social life are characterized in the first part of the study.Moreover the relationship between the science and the philosophy are clarified in the first lectures. The scientific method as the symetry of advancements through which the scientific system is created represents the essence of the second part of the study. The main attention is concentrated to the analysis .The presumption that every discipline creates at least the potentional unity and that it is managable by the sufficiently global concept represents the way- out of these complicated problems analysis.The inductive and deductive approaches are stressed in the lectures. The subject is not oriented towards the theory of science as the whole explanation but only to the metodology of the science. Several gnoseological problems are explained in the necessary extent.

Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
The student will master the basic questions of the metohodology of science during his or her study. The subject teaching will be finished by the theoretical essay worked out by every participant of the course.
Recommended literature
  • ČECHÁK, V. Úvod do základů metodologie.. Praha: VŠFS - Eupress, 2007.
  • FAJKUS, B. Současná filosofie a metodologie vědy. Praha, 2005.
  • FAJKUS, B. Současná filozofie a metodologie vědy.. Praha: Filosofia, 2003.
  • HORNÝ, S., PALOVSKÁ, H., VÁCLAVÍKOVÁ, M. Systémová metodologie.. Praha: VŠE, 2001.
  • OCHRANA, F. Metodologie vědy. Úvod do problému.. Praha: Karolinum, 2009.
  • STRAUSS, A., CORBIN, J., JEŽEK, S. Základy kvalitativního výzkumu.. Brno: Sdružení Podané ruce, 1999.
  • ŠESTÁK, Z. Jak psát a přednášet o vědě. Praha : Academia, 2000.
  • TULKA, J. Věda a vědecká metodologie II.. Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 2000.
  • TULKA, J. Věda a vědecká metodologie I.. Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 1995.


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