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S4002
law, ethics & philosophy of science
jan havliš
: national centre for biomolecular research
:: laboratory of functional genomics and proteomics
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workshop part I
philosophy & ethics of science
is philosophy of science of any use to a scientist?
… most scientists tend to understand little more
about science than fish about hydrodynamics …
Imre Lakatos
… philosophy of science is about as useful
to scientists as ornithology is to birds …
Richard Feynman
how to teach a scientist to research?
by means of example
: as a craft under master’s leading
:: examples & experience
::: mostly intuitive
::: prone to erroneous use
by means of understanding
: as a subject under teacher’s leading
:: principles & rules
::: analytical & rational
::: more robust approach 2
workshop syllabus
part II – Michal Koščík, Jakub Míšek, Matěj Myška
01. Human rights and proportionality of legal principles
02. Methods for solving ethically exposed legal issues
03. Intellectual property right
: Subject, structure, introduction to copyright
04. Copyright
: Rights to publications, licensing practices, transfers in projects & research consortia
05. Data protection in science and research
: Personal data, research data
06. Industrial intellectual property rights in science and research
: Patents, utility models, specific types of rights
part I – Jan Havliš
01. cognition
: how our mind works
02. epistemology / methodology of science
: how knowledge acquisition works
03. argumentation
: how the knowledge propagation and sharing works
04. ethics of scientific conduct / misconduct
: how the knowledge acquisition, propagation and sharing fails
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recommended reading – part I
[01] Karl R. Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, Routledge 2002
[02] Alex Rosenberg, Philosophy of Science, Routledge 2013
[03] Carl G. Hempel, Philosophy of Natural Science, Pearson 1966
[04] Richard Dawkins, Climbing mount improbable, WW Norton 1997
[05] Jaroslav Flegr, Frozen evolution, BookSurge Publishing 2008
[06] Jonathan Marks, What It Means to Be 98% Chimpanzee, University of California Press 2002
[07] Paul K. Feyerabend, Three Dialogues On Knowledge, Blackwell 2011
[08] Paul K. Feyerabend, Against Method, Verso 2010
[09] Victor J. Stenger, God: the failed hypothesis, New York 2007
[10] Stanislaw Lem, Summa technologiae, Uni Minnesota Press 2013
[11] Robert Audi, Epistemology: A Contemporary Introduction, Routledge 2010
[12] Daniel Kahnemann, Thinking – Fast and Slow, Penguin 2012
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workshop’s output – part I
an active workshop participation
solving practical problems in areas of cognition, epistemology, argumentation and ethics
: elaborate answers to all submitted problems
:: discuss them with your fellow colleagues
a seminar paper (pick one of the following options; 5 pages max)
a methodical analysis of chosen particular research concept or publication
: define the studied repeatable phenomenon and its circumstances
: within the chosen problem, formulate hypothesis based on the above mentioned
: show how to test the hypothesis by means of unique prediction
: emphasise the pros and cons of the methodologic approach chosen in the selected study
an ethical analysis of chosen scientific misconduct
: describe the particular scientific misconduct
: try to determine how such a misconduct was or can be revealed
: try to determine the danger of that particular misconduct for the general scientific practice
: suggest how such a misconduct could be prevented
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workshop schedule
part I – monday
11:30 – 13:30, 14:30 – 16:30
december 12, 2022
room E35-145a
part I – tuesday
11:30 – 13:30, 14:30 – 16:30
december 13, 2022
room E35-145a
part II – wednesday & thursday (Matěj Myška et al.)
11:30 – 16:30 & 11:30 – 16:30
december 14 & 15, 2022
room E35-145a
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deadline for submission of the essays for part I is february 3, 2023