F5571 Philosophical questions of the language of physics 1

Faculty of Science
Autumn 2015

The course is not taught in Autumn 2015

Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
RNDr. Michal Černý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
RNDr. Blažena Švandová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. RNDr. Zdeněk Bochníček, Dr.
Department of Plasma Physics and Technology – Physics Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Jan Novotný, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of Plasma Physics and Technology – Physics Section – Faculty of Science
Prerequisites
Interess on the philosophical problems of logic and natural sciences is supposed. Lectures are connected with discussions. Credit for the essay on the topics connected with the content of lectures
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The subject draw strength from scientific knowledge of philosophy, logic, mathematics, physics, informatics and lingvistics. The place of physics is looking for among other subjects of human knowledge. Physics will be seen from the point of view of its language growing complexity during the whole of its history. At the end of the course students should be able to understand better the problems of contemporary physics and to define new problems relating to the nature of our knowledge.
Syllabus
  • Natural language and science. Syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Science, faith and myth. Philosophy and the natural sciences.
  • Philosophy of language and its basic problems. The emergence and development of language.
  • Characters and context. Accuracy versus vagueness of the language. Consistency and coherence language. Objectivity and intersubjectivity.
  • Contradictions and paradoxes. Language and logic. True, the relativity of truth and veracity. One or more logic?
  • Noam Chomsky: Natural and Formal Languages ​​I. Hierarchy of Languages
  • Noam Chomsky: Artificial Intelligence and approaches to   her. Theoretical and practical possibilities of use in science.
  • Language learning and cognition. Clarity, understanding, constructivism.
  • Mathematics as a language of science, mathematization Sciences, Hilbert's program, axioms, and Gödel's theorem.
  • Thomas Kuhn and Ladislav Kvasz: cumulative and non-cumulative development of science. Paradigms, revolution and Rapture.
  • The development of mathematical language by Ladislav Kvasz: alternation of symbolic and iconic language.
  • Language Development Physics I. Mechanics, Continuum Theory and fluid, electricity and magnetism
  • Language Development physics II. Cosmology and relativity
  • Language Development Physics III. Quantum mechanics, the physics of elementary particles
Literature
  • KVASZ, Ladislav. O revolúciách vo vede a ruptúrach v jazyku vedy (About Scientific Revolutions and about Ruptures in the language of Science). 1st ed. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského Bratislava, 1998. ISBN 80-223-1255-X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/. info
  • ZAJAC, Rudolf, Ján PIŠÚT and Juraj ŠEBESTA. Historické pramene súčasnej fyziky, Zv. 2 (Historical sources of contemporary physics, Vol. 2). Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského, 1997. info
  • ZAJAC, Rudolf and Juraj ŠEBESTA. Historické pramene súčasnej fyziky. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Alfa, vydavateľstvo technickej a ekonomickej literatúry, 1990, 396 s. ISBN 80-05-00231-9. info
  • KVASZ, Ladislav. O revolúciach vo vedea ruptúrach v jazyku vedy. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského, 1998. 208 s. ISBN 80-223-1255-X
  • KVASZ, Ladislav. Patterns of change : linguistic innovations in the development of classical mathematics. Basel: Birkhauser, 2008, xviii, 261. ISBN 9783764388393. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, class discussion.
Assessment methods
lectures, class discussion, essay
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2007 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, spring 2012 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014.
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