Familiarity with reading and ability to comprehend essays. Critical ability

The course aims, on the one hand, to offer an introduction to the most important notions and debates in the philosophy of science, as well as to its fundamental authors. On the other hand, its objective will be to approach scientific research from a social, political and economic perspective, making it one more social activity. Thus, this subject is oriented to offer a realistic image of scientific research and of the perplexities and problems posed by the scientific image of reality. The student will end up knowing basic notions of epistemology and the ideological, sociological and political foundations of the scientific exercise. Finally, past and present initiatives for the organization of the scientific community for social and self-reflexive/critical purposes will be presented.

BLOCK 1: What is science? More questions than we think UNIT 1: SCIENCE AND ITS METHOD - Can we separate science and the non-scientific? - Is there a single scientific method? - Does science always seek the truth? UNIT 2: SCIENCE AND ITS HISTORY - How long has science existed? - Is there a progress of science? - Can we radically separate the history of science from the history of society? BLOCK 2: Science as a social activity UNIT 3: PRECONCEPTIONS OF MODERN SCIENCE (AND THEIR CRITICISMS) - From nature as a mechanical object to Gaia - From the neutrality of science to technoscience - From androcentric science to feminist epistemology - From Eurocentric science to Southern Epistemologies - From scientist as capitalist worker to scientist as defender of the terrestrial multiverse

This is a course of a markedly theoretical nature, based on: - Lectures by the professor, introducing the relevant issues. - High level of student participation in the questions posed. - Reading by the student of essays and articles in seminar format. - Tutorials with the professor - Final oral exam