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S.SEIFULLIN KAZAKH AGRO TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY
(2708)
History and Philosophy
of Science
Lecturer: Ainur Abdina - Doctor of philosophical sciences, Associate
Professor of Department of Philosophy
Astana 2018
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Тheme 5. Modern European Science - the classic stage of
the development of science
The purpose of the lecture: analysis of
the classical stage of scientific development and the identification of elements of classical science.
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Plan:
Empiricism
Rationalism
The Enlightenment
Слайд 4Basic concepts:
The methodology of science
Rationalism
Empiricism
The Enlightenment
Classical science
Слайд 5Empiricism
Empiricism is direction in the philosophy of the New Age,
recognized as the foundation of knowledge is experience.
The founder
of empiricism was Francis Bacon. Bacon has developed a method of experimental induction, which became the core of a comprehensive program of scientific and technological power of humanity.
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Bacon was a real "prophet", a herald of modern scientific
and technological civilization.
"Knowledge is force."
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The purpose of science is bringing benefits to mankind
The main
task of philosophy is the construction of a new method
of learning
Слайд 8Rationalism
Rationalism is trend in modern philosophy, whose representatives argued the
possibility of knowing reality from the pure principles of thinking,
independent of experience. The founder of classical rationalism was Rene Descartes.
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Central to the methodology of Descartes takes the principle of
evidence or intellectual intuition - the focus of classical rationalism.
The only criterion of truth is the mind; true only that which is conceived mind quite clearly and distinctly; what is conceived clearly and distinctly, it is the true being. «Cogito ergo sum» - «I think, therefore I am" - known formula of Descartes.
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The Enlightenment
Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire) - the founder of the
French Enlightenment.
Voltaire English quotes
I disapprove of what you say,
but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Слайд 11The Enlightenment
The French Encyclopedists - There are authors of "Encyclopedia,
or the Explanatory Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts and Crafts"
(1751-1780), which was headed by D'Alembert and Diderot, and which includes the most outstanding thinkers, scientists, writers, engineers of the Enlightenment: Voltaire, Rousseau, Turgot, Buffon, de Condillac, Marmontel, Raynal, and etc.
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INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES
Barometer and atmospheric pressure: 1643-1646
The pendulum clock: 1656-1657
The
pocket watch: 1675
Pressure cooker and piston: 1685-1690
Piano and forte: 1698
Steam
pump: 1698-1702
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Boiler, cylinder and piston: 1704-1712
Mercury thermometer:1714-1742
Chronometer: 1714-1766
Sextant: 1731-1757
The
Leyden jar: 1745-1746
James Watt and the condenser: 1764-1769
Machine tools, gun
barrels and cylinders: 1774-1800
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Double-acting engine and governor: 1782-1787
Year of the balloon
- hot air:1783
Bifocals: 1784
Cotton gin: 1793
Lithography: 1798-1875
Jenner and vaccination: 1796-1798