# Theories of Science - Spring 2024 - All you need to know
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# Theories of Science - Fall 2024 - All you need to know
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**Table of Contents**
- [Theories of Science - Spring 2024 - All you need to know](#theories-of-science---spring-2024---all-you-need-to-know)
- [Theories of Science - Fall 2024 - All you need to know](#theories-of-science---fall-2024---all-you-need-to-know)
- [About the course](#about-the-course)
- [Formalities](#formalities)
- [Lecturers ](#lecturers)
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- [Credit points](#credit-points)
- [Required readings ](#required-readings)
- [Course program](#course-program)
- [07. February: Philosophy and Research Ethics I (day 1)](#07-february-philosophy-and-research-ethics-i--day-1)
- [08. February: Philosophy and Research Ethics II (day 2)](#08-february-philosophy-and-research-ethics-ii-day-2)
- [20 March: Science in context I (day 3)](#20-march-science-in-context-i-day-3)
- [21 March: Science in context II (day4)](#21-march-science-in-context-ii-day4)
- [16. April: Critical perspectives I (day 5)](#16-april-critical-perspectives-i--day-5)
- [17 April: Critical perspectives II (day 6)](#17-april-critical-perspectives-ii--day-6)
- [22. May: Conference](#22-may-conference)
- [28. October: Introduction and Philosophy and Research Ethics I (day 1)](#28-october-introduction-and-philosophy-and-research-ethics-i--day-1)
- [29. October: Philosophy and Research Ethics II (day 2)](#29-october-philosophy-and-research-ethics-ii-day-2)
- [11 November: Science in context I (day 3)](#11-november-science-in-context-i-day-3)
- [12 November: Science in context II (day4)](#12-november-science-in-context-ii-day4)
- [25. November: Critical perspectives I (day 5)](#25-november-critical-perspectives-i--day-5)
- [26 November: Critical perspectives II (day 6)](#26-november-critical-perspectives-ii--day-6)
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### Lecturers
Professor Thomas Berker (responsible for the course: thomas.berker@ntnu.no), Professor Ståle Rainer Strøm Finke, Associate Professor Terje Finstad, Professor Jonathan Knowles, Associate Professor Sofia Moratti, Associate Professor Astrid Rasch, Associate Professor Elisabeth Stubberud, Professor emeritus Knut H. Sørensen, Professor May Thorseth, and Research Professor Govert Valkenburg.
Professor Thomas Berker (responsible for the course: thomas.berker@ntnu.no), Professor Ståle Rainer Strøm Finke, Associate Professor Terje Finstad, Professor Jonathan Knowles, Associate Professor Sofia Moratti, Associate Professor Rune Nydal, Associate Professor Astrid Rasch, Associate Professor Elisabeth Stubberud, Professor emeritus Knut H. Sørensen, Professor May Thorseth, and Research Professor Govert Valkenburg.
### Rooms (all in Dragvoll)
07.02.24: 8563 (walk through the library until you reach the end, then go to the left)
08.02.24: D5
20.03.24: 8563 (walk through the library until you reach the end, then go to the left)
21.03.24: D5
16.04.24: D5
17.04.24: 8563 (walk through the library until you reach the end, then go to the left)
22.05.24: D150
TBA
### Credit points
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## Course program
### 07. February: Philosophy and Research Ethics I (day 1)
### 28. October: Introduction and Philosophy and Research Ethics I (day 1)
0900-1100 Thomas Berker: Welcome, about the course, structure, course assignment, and other practical information, also: some getting to know each other
0900 Welcome, about the course, structure, course assignment, and other practical information
1100-1215 Rune Nydal (Lecture and discussion)
1000 Getting to know each other, presentations and group work
1200-1300 Lunch
More info and readings coming soon
The following lectures on day 1 and 2 will take up philosophical questions about method and truth in relation to natural science, social science, and the humanities, rounding off with a discussion of general research ethics.
1215-1315 Lunch
1300-1500: Ståle Rainer Strøm Finke: The body as the locus of knowing
1315-1500 Ståle Rainer Strøm Finke: The body as the locus of knowing
This session deals with two enabling factors within science and their impact on our understanding of science: The body and literacy.
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- Molander, B. (2015). Chapter 9: Two sides of the same coin. Professional knowledge and the culture of knowledge. In: The practice of knowing and knowing in practices (pp. 237-262). Peter Lang Edition. ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS-H23/raw/branch/main/Readings/Day%201+2:%20Philosophy%20of%20science%20and%20research%20ethics/Readings/Molander9.pdf))
- Young, I.M. (1980) ‘Throwing like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment Motility and Spatiality’, Human Studies, 3(2), pp. 137–156. ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS-H23/raw/branch/main/Readings/Day%201+2:%20Philosophy%20of%20science%20and%20research%20ethics/Readings/Young1980.pdf))
### 08. February: Philosophy and Research Ethics II (day 2)
### 29. October: Philosophy and Research Ethics II (day 2)
0900-1200: Jonathan Knowles: Philosophy of Science: Objectivity, Method, and Truth
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Browse through the NESH guidelines, available in both Norwegian: https://www.forskningsetikk.no/retningslinjer/hum-sam/forskningsetiske-retningslinjer-for-samfunnsvitenskap-og-humaniora/ or English: https://www.forskningsetikk.no/en/guidelines/social-sciences-humanities-law-and-theology/guidelines-for-research-ethics-in-the-social-sciences-humanities-law-and-theology/
1545 End of day
### 20 March: Science in context I (day 3)
### 11. November: Science in context I (day 3)
0900-1100 Thomas Berker: Introduction: History, institutions, practices (and introduction to our conference)
0900-1200 Thomas Berker: Navigating without a (complete) map, lecture and group work
*Essential reading:*
Latour, Bruno (1983) Give me a laboratory and I will raise the world. In: Latour, Bruno, Knorr-Cetina Karin, Mulkay MJ (eds.) Science observed. Perspectives on the social study of science. Sage: London: 141-170. Online: http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/12-GIVE-ME-A-LAB-GB.pdf
- Latour, Bruno (1983) Give me a laboratory and I will raise the world. In: Latour, Bruno, Knorr-Cetina Karin, Mulkay MJ (eds.) Science observed. Perspectives on the social study of science. Sage: London: 141-170. Online: http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/12-GIVE-ME-A-LAB-GB.pdf
1200-1300 Lunch
1115-1200 Knut H. Sørensen: The university as a place and a context for research: Academic freedom and autonomy, the quest for excellence, and strained collegiality.
1300-1500 Knut H. Sørensen: The university as a place and a context for research: Academic freedom and autonomy, the quest for excellence, and strained collegiality.
*Essential reading:*
- Knut H. Sørensen and Sharon Traweek: Questing Excellence in Academia: A Tale of Two Universities (Routledge 2022). Chapter 3. In the Shadows of Excellence and Neoliberal Interventions: Enactments of Academic Autonomy and Strained Collegiality (33 p.) The whole book is available here: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780367259334
1200-1300 Lunch
1300-1500 Sørensen cont.
### 21 March: Science in context II (day4)
### 12. November: Science in context II (day4)
0900 Terje Finstad: History of science and changes in scientific life. Situating and historicizing your own discipline/subject.
0900-1200 Terje Finstad: History of science and changes in scientific life. Situating and historicizing your own discipline/subject.
*Essential reading:*
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- Valkenburg, G. (2021). Engineering as a socio-political practice. In D. P. Michelfelder & N. Doorn (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Engineering. Routledge. [While strictly about engineering and not scientific research, much of this chapter resonates and pertains to science.] ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS-H23/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%203+4:%20Science%20in%20context/Readings/Valkenburg%20-%20Engineering%20as%20SocPol%20Practice%20NOT%20FOR%20DISTRIBUTION.pdf))
### 16. April: Critical perspectives I (day 5)
### 25. November: Critical perspectives I (day 5)
0900-1100 Sofia Moratti: Situated knowledge and feminist critique of science
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- Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J. 2021. ‘The Cognitive Empire, Politics of Knowledge and African Intellectual Productions: Reflections on Struggles for Epistemic Freedom and Resurgence of Decolonisation in the Twenty-First Century’. Third World Quarterly 42 (5): 882–901. ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%205+6:%20Critical%20perspectives/sabelo.pdf))
### 17 April: Critical perspectives II (day 6)
### 26 November: Critical perspectives II (day 6)
0900-1100 Elisabeth Stubberud: Decolonizing knowledge production and objectivity
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- Dankertsen, Astrid (2022) ' Avkolonisering av akademia fra et samisk perspektiv' ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%205+6:%20Critical%20perspectives/Dankertsen%20under%20publisering%20-%20Avkolonisering%20av%20akademia%20fra%20et%20samisk%20perspektiv.pdf))
1115-1200 Valentin Munowi M Luntumbe: What is to be done about African Studies?
*Essential reading:*
1100-1200 Thomas Berker: From the ledger of grievances to a constructive critique of science
Mudimbe, V.Y. (1988) The invention of Africa. Gnosis, philosophy, and the order of Knowledge. Bloomington and Indianopolis: Indiana University Press. pp. 14-37. ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%205+6:%20Critical%20perspectives/Mudimbe.pdf))
1200-1300 Lunch
1300-1500 Thomas Berker: The many uses of science: interdisciplinarity, innovation and sustainability
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- Berker, Thomas. “Negotiating research norms between academic and industrial research. The case of a research centre on zero emission buildings in Norway”, to be published in Nordic Architectural Research. ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%205+6:%20Critical%20perspectives/Berker_Negotiating_research_norms.pdf))
### 22. May: Conference
### 06. December: Conference
The participants of the course present papers on how their PhD work relates to the topics of the course. The conference is public and will be organised collectively.
Thomas Berker
6 months ago