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A Tapestry of Values in Science

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Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2023-2024

Course director

  • Dr. Ádám Tamás TUBOLY

    research associate professor,
    Institute of Transdisciplinary Discoveries - Director of Innovation, Institute of Physiology

Number of hours/semester

lectures: 12 hours

practices: 0 hours

seminars: 0 hours

total of: 12 hours

Subject data

  • Code of subject: OXF-TVS-f-T
  • 1 kredit
  • Dentistry
  • Optional modul
  • spring
Prerequisites:

-

Course headcount limitations

min. 5 – max. 35

Available as Campus course for 35 fő számára. Campus-karok: ÁOK BTK ETK GYTK KTK

Topic

During the last few years, especially due to the pandemic, the public had an idiosyncratic chance to look into and beyond the laboratories and get a glimpse on how science is made. Not everyone was happy as political, religious, moral, and many other non-scientific influences and values reared their heads. Often scientific uncertainty was identified as the major source of science's unreliability, thus opening up the public space for pseudo-scientific issues and cleared the road for all the suspected activities done on the fringe. 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 - Dr. Tuboly Ádám Tamás
  • 2. Why to consider values in science, and especially in medicine? - Dr. Tuboly Ádám Tamás
  • 3. History of Science and its Use for Science - Dr. Tuboly Ádám Tamás
  • 4. History of Science and its Use for Science - Toescu Emil Crisan
  • 5. Methodology and Heuristics of Science - Dr. Tuboly Ádám Tamás
  • 6. Methodology and Heuristics of Science - Toescu Emil Crisan
  • 7. Quantitative and Qualitative Aims of Science - Dr. Tuboly Ádám Tamás
  • 8. Quantitative and Qualitative Aims of Science - Toescu Emil Crisan
  • 9. What Should we Study? - Dr. Tuboly Ádám Tamás
  • 10. What Should we Study? - Toescu Emil Crisan
  • 11. How Should we Study it? - Dr. 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

Maximum of 15 % absence allowed

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