Provete, Diogo
(2021)
Challenges and strategies to teach history and philosophy of science to graduate biologists.
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Abstract
Scientists have played an increasingly relevant role in our society. Biologists in special are being constantly required to provide advice to governments in subjects that go from how to deal with a pandemic to what are the consequences of deforestation. However, practicing science requires not only technical knowledge, but also understanding how scientific knowledge is produced, its limits, and consequences. In this piece, I briefly discuss the importance courses on History and Philosophy of Science (HPS) can play in biologist curriculum and dissect a syllabus I have been using to teach HPS to graduate biologists. The proposed course syllabus includes discussion on the scientific method, classic philosophers of science, causation, models, how scientific knowledge is acquired, criteria to delimit science from pseudoscience, and realism and anti-realism. Given that contemporary science is becoming complex, and increasingly harder to disentangle from our daily life, understanding the role scientist play in society is a necessary component of a doctoral student training.
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