MA seminar: Philosophy of Science and Medicine 2 WF-FI-212-SEMLAT2
Substantive issues:
During the seminar students are going to discuss chosen problems of the
philosophy of medicine (the life and death problem, medicine as the science
and art, methods of the medicine, medical language, etc.) and the
philosophy of natural science.
Subject level
Learning outcome code/codes
Learning outcomes
Knowledge:
EK_1 – student has knowledge on biological and medical science
EK_2 –student knows principles of the analysis of philosophical texts and methods of the scientific work
Skills:
EK_3 – student is able to judge critically various philosophical concepts
EK_4 – student has the ability of formulating his/her own hypotheses and present his/her opinion
Competence:
EK_5 – student is open to views of other participants of the seminar
EK_6 – student is able to express his/her own opinions
ECTS:
attending seminar - 30
preparation to seminar - 25
preparation of presentation - 30
presentation of passages from an MA thesis - 30
Consultation - 10
Total hours 120 [120 : 30(25) = 4]
ECTS - 4
Assessment criteria
Conditions for receiving a credit:
1.Attendance and active participation in seminar
2.Written work:
a)My MA students – thesis
b)The rest of students: end of course essay (full text around 15 printed
pages). Topic can be given by the student and accepted by the professor,
but not later than end of February (if not, the topic will be given by the
professor).
c)To deliver a paper – II year students on their thesis, the rest of
students on the end of course essay.
I year students: topic and initial structure of the thesis shall be
submitted to the Professor by the end of the second semester.
Bibliography
(in Polish)
Podstawą dla dyskusji będą przygotowane przez studentów referaty omawiające główne idee zawarte m. in. w pracach:
P. Lenartowicz, Elementy filozofii zjawiska biologicznego, Kraków 1986
W. Marciszewski, Sztuczna inteligencja, Kraków 1998
Medycyna. Wprowadzenie do studiów lekarskich, (red.) E. Waszyński, Wrocław 2003
W. Szumowski, Filozofia medycyny, Kęty 2007
W. Szumowski, Historia medycyny filozoficznie ujęta, Kety 2008
J. Turek, Filozoficzne interpretacje faktów naukowych, Lublin 2009
T. Wojciechowski, Z zagadnień manipulacji ludzkim mózgiem, Rocz. Filoz. 31(1983)3, 21-44
oraz artykuły z czasopism:The Journal of law, medicine and ethics; The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy; The History of the behavioral sciences
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