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A Tapestry of Values in Science

Data

Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025

Course director

Number of hours/semester

lectures: 12 hours

practices: 0 hours

seminars: 0 hours

total of: 12 hours

Subject data

  • Code of subject: OXF-TVS-o-T
  • 1 kredit
  • General Medicine
  • Optional modul
  • spring
Prerequisites:

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Course headcount limitations

min. 5 – max. 35

Available as Campus course for . Campus-karok: BTK ETK TTK

Topic

How science is made? Do scientists bring their own life and values into the laboratory? Or science aims only knowledge, and shall not change the world, that is, science is value-free. During the pandemic, society was able to have a new look on how science is done. Moral, political, economic, and personal value entered the picture. Many of these topics of discussion and so-called debates were related with bio-medical issues. This course will offer a practical and theoretical guide for students about values, the public estimation of science and their interconnections, with a special focus on biomedical and health sciences.

Lectures

  • 1. Introduction, Administration, Course Description - Tuboly Ádám Tamás
  • 2. Why to consider values in science, and especially in medicine? - Tuboly Ádám Tamás
  • 3. History of Science and its Use for Science - Tuboly Ádám Tamás
  • 4. History of Science and its Use for Science - Toescu Emil Crisan
  • 5. Methodology and Heuristics of Science - Tuboly Ádám Tamás
  • 6. Methodology and Heuristics of Science - Toescu Emil Crisan
  • 7. Quantitative and Qualitative Aims of Science - Tuboly Ádám Tamás
  • 8. Quantitative and Qualitative Aims of Science - Toescu Emil Crisan
  • 9. What Should we Study? - Tuboly Ádám Tamás
  • 10. What Should we Study? - Toescu Emil Crisan
  • 11. How Should we Study it? - Tuboly Ádám Tamás
  • 12. How Should we Study it? - Toescu Emil Crisan

Practices

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Kevin C. Elliott: A Tapestry of Values. Oxford University Press, 2017

Literature developed by the Department

Notes

Recommended literature

Kevin C. Elliott and Daniel Steel (eds.), Current Controversies in Values and Science. New York and London: Routledge, 2017

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

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Mid-term exams

Active participation at the lectures, and participation at the final workshops, preparing a presentation, and discussing the presentation of others.

Making up for missed classes

Possibly by individual appointment.

Exam topics/questions

http://itdweb.hu/

Examiners

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

Rólunk