История науки

2024/2025

Учебный год

RUS

Обучение ведется на русском языке

3

Кредиты

Кто читает:

Департамент истории

Статус:

Маго-лего

Когда читается:

4 модуль

Преподаватель

Лоскутова Марина Викторовна

Программа дисциплины

Аннотация

The purpose of the course is to familiarise students with the main problems in the development of natural philosophy and natural sciences in the early modern and modern times and to examine entangled histories of scientific knowledge, technology, economics and social structures in different historical periods. We will consider how the European expansion to other regions of the world, which began in the 16th century, not only stimulated the accumulation of new scientific data but also led to the emergence of new research practices and institutions of scientific research. We will analyse what the history of science and technology can provide for a better understanding of contemporary problems such as food security, climate change, depletion of natural resources, and the transition to new sources of energy.

Цель освоения дисциплины

• The course aims to familiarise students with the advancement of natural sciences in the early modern and modern periods (from the Scientific Revolution to the early 20th century) in a broader context of social, economic and technological changes, and to hone their critical and argumentative skills in analysing contemporary problems in the relations between science and society.

Планируемые результаты обучения

• Students will develop a basic understanding of the main stages in the advancement of natural sciences in the 16th-19th centuries as connected to major social, economic and technological transformations
• Students will develop a general understanding of the ways in which historians of science approach their subject – their concepts and research methods
• Students will improve their skills in examining various modes of interaction between science and society
• Students will improve their skills of reading, academic debates and academic writing in English

Содержание учебной дисциплины

• The origins of modern science
• "The scientific revolution" and "the great divergence" between Europe and Asia
• People in science
• Experimental science - science in the laboratory
• Science in the field, science in the museum

Элементы контроля

• Critical essay (a book review)
• Discussion leadership
• Written in-class exam
• In-class participation

Промежуточная аттестация

• 2024/2025 4th module
  0.2 * Critical essay (a book review) + 0.3 * Discussion leadership + 0.2 * In-class participation + 0.3 * Written in-class exam

Список литературы

Рекомендуемая основная литература

• A shorter history of science, Dampier, W. C., 2014
• Dear, P. (2006). The Intelligibility of Nature : How Science Makes Sense of the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=260098
• History of Science, Boas, M., 1958
• Lightman, B. V. (2016). A Companion to the History of Science. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1163670
• McClellan, J. E., & Dorn, H. (2006). Science and Technology in World History : An Introduction (Vol. 2nd ed). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=215912
• The Cambridge history of science. Vol.3: Early modern science, , 2008
• The Cambridge history of science. Vol.5: The modern physical and mathematical sciences, , 2003

Рекомендуемая дополнительная литература

• Brian W. Ogilvie. (2006). The Science of Describing : Natural History in Renaissance Europe. University of Chicago Press.
• Bynum, W. F. (2008). The History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: OUP Oxford. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=363643
• Jonathan Simon, & Bernadette Bensaude-vincent. (2012). Chemistry: The Impure Science (2nd Edition): Vol. 2nd ed. Imperial College Press.
• Robert Westman. (2011). The Copernican Question : Prognostication, Skepticism, and Celestial Order. University of California Press.
• Shanahan, T. (2004). The Evolution of Darwinism : Selection, Adaptation and Progress in Evolutionary Biology. Cambridge University Press.
• Shapin, S. (2008). The Scientific Life : A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=285089
• Ursula Klein, & Wolfgang Lefèvre. (2007). Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science : A Historical Ontology. The MIT Press.

Авторы

• Лоскутова Марина Викторовна