[Fis] International Ph.D-course in phil. of science

08/03/2004
Ph. D.-Course
Philosophy and Methodology of the Humanities, Natural and Social
Sciences: Commonalities, Differences, Subject areas and Methods

International course, 5 days, 5 ETCS, Organizer: S�ren Brier
(sbr.lpf@cbs.dk), home page
( http://www.flec.kvl.dk/personalprofile.asp?id=sbr&p=engelsk )
Teaching: S�ren Brier (sbr.lpf@cbs.dk, 38152208) plus guest lecturers.
Time: 24.-28. May 2004. Place: Copenhagen Business School, Management,
Politics and Philosophy. Sign up latest 1. April to Karina Ravn Nielsen:
krn.lpf@cbs.dk, or (+45) 38152208.

The aim of the course is to make the Ph. D. student able to reflect
analytically on their projects subject area and the type of knowledge
involved in it as these often have a high complexity and
interdisciplinary character to day. Not only to be able to chose the
right methods, but also to be able weight the different types of
knowledge gained by the different types of analysis and measurements
against each other in the final conclusion. Which aspects do one want to
analyze? In what way can the result be combined and how far can they be
generalized? To think of how they can be combined and in which ways they
supplement each other considering the type and ideal of knowledge and
the subject area they represent. Thus this course gives a further
development of the foundation for reflexive thinking to the courses in
methodology.

Nearly every research project these days has both theoretical, empirical
and practical knowledge aspects in it. Further the qualitative and the
quantitative methods deliver different kinds of knowledge. Some
researchers have for some time construed this, as you have to make a
choice between either qualitative or quantitative methods. Today it is
realized that you have to combine them and even various forms of them to
cover a complex area of knowledge. It helps to know how the different
types of "optics" have arisen historically? The course will also discuss
if it is possible to create a meta view of the relation between the
different types of knowledge in a discussion of what aspects of reality
is represented in humanities, science, social science, philosophy,
religion and politics.
Workload
The course demands reading the main part of three general books one from
each area describing the types and quality of knowledge produced there,
the limits and the strength and weakness of these kinds of knowledge and
one on a meta-view of them all. We will also read a book and some texts
on the theoretical and practical connections between the various
approaches to knowledge. I will try to keep it around a thousand pages.
It is necessary to read the material before the course.
Student are expected to produce questions to and discussion of the books
each leading a discussion in turn and each student will also make a
presentation of how the course problem area relates to his or hers
project and raise a discussion from those concrete problems.

Form:
A typical day will have an introductory lecture with student questions
and discussion.
Then there will be presentation by two external lecturers with
discussion. After Lunch presentation of problems to analyse in projects
by the Ph.D. students.

External lectures

Undervisningsplan for Ph.D.-kursus

24. May, 2004: The Humanities: Prof: Prof. Ole Fogh Kirkeby: On the
phenomenological view of knowledge and methods .
25. May, 2004 The Sciences: prof. Thomas Hellstr�m, . Philosophy of
science and the methodological consequences of the concept of natural
kinds. S�ren Brier: Popper versus Kuhn and the social construction of
science.
26. May, 2004: The social Sciences: Prof. Niels K�rg�rd: How to view
economical knowledge in relation to value statements and other types of
knowledge in the social sciences.
Head of Department MPP, CBS: S�ren Barlebo Wenneberg: The philosophical
and methodological problems of social constructivism.
27. Similarities and differences between humanities, social sciences and
sciences.
 Prof. Finn Colin: What, if anything, unifies the different approaches
to systematic knowledge.
Assoc. Prof. Jan Faye: Rethinking Science -and humanities.
28, May, 2004 ; New transdisciplinary developments. Prof., Head of
Learning Lab, Hans Siggaard Jensen: New developments in the social
sciences. Fredrik Stjernfelt: the transdisciplinary potential and
aspirations in semiotics and especially Peircian (bio)semiotics
(not-confirmed).

Changes can occur.

Literature

Abell, P. (2001): "On th eprospects for a Unified Social Science:
Economics and Sociology"
London School of Economics and Political Sciences. Draft.

Brier, S. (2000): "Trans-Scientific Frameworks of Knowing:
Complementarity Views of the Different Types of Human Knowledge",
Yearbook Edition of Systems Research & Behavioral Science, System
Research, 17, pp. 433-458.

Brier, S, (2002): "The necessity of Trans-Scientific Frameworks for
doing Interdisciplinary Research", Conference paper for Paradigms lost
and Paradigms gained: Negotiating Interdisciplinary in the 21'st
century, Calgary, May, 2001.

H�yrup, Jens (2000): Human Sciences: Reappraising the Humanities Through
History and Philosophy. State University of New York Press. Paperback
pp.416.

Alvesson, Mats and Skoldberg, Kaj (2000): Reflexive Methodology:
Interpretation and research. Sage Publication, Paperback pp.352.

Bird, Alexander (2002): Philosophy of Science, Routledge. Paperback pp.
313.

Fay, Brian (1996): Contemporary Philosophy of the Social Sciences,
Blackwell publishers, Paperback pp. 304.

Wallerstein, I. (1996): Open the Social Sciences, Stanford University
Press.

Special papers and excerpts.

Interested in participating? Call or write Karina Ravn Nielsen,
krn.lpf@cbs.dk, 38152208, MPP (Ledelse, Politik og Filosofi), CBS.

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