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INCOMING ERASMUS STUDENTS academic year 2020-2021 Epistemology of Social Sciences

EPISTEMOLOGY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES: INFORMATION FOR INCOMING ERASMUS STUDENTS a.a. 2020-2021

Erasmus students have to contact the teacher by email at the beginning of the semester.

References:

(6 CFU)

- Rosenberg, Philosophy of Social Science, Westview Press, Fourth Edition (January 3, 2012).

(3 CFU)

- Choose (A) or (B):

(A) Bicchieri, The Rules We Live By + M. Van Hees, Explaining Institutions: A Defence of Reductionism + D. Sperber, Selection and Attraction in Evolution, all the three essays are in: F. Guala, D. Steel, The Philosophy of Social Science Reader, Routledge, 2011.

(B) Oliverio, Dall’imitazione alla cooperazione. La ricerca sociale e le sue sfide, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino, 2012.

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- K. R. Popper, “Science: Conjectures and Refutations”, in K. R. Popper, Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge, Basic Books, 1962, from paragraph I to paragraph IX included.

To meet the teacher please come to class during teaching semester or contact teacher by email (albertina.oliverio@unich.it).

Erasmus students have to contact the teacher concerning final exam.