期刊名称：Hyle : International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry
印刷版ISSN：1433-5158
出版年度：2003
卷号：9
期号：1
页码：126-128
出版社：HYLE Publications, Karlsruhe and University of Karlsruhe
摘要：Teaching an undergraduate course in Philosophy of Chemistry to chemists provides many challenges since few aca-demic subjects are more different in their way of thinking (e.g. their ap-proach toward truth, their language, formalism), teaching and, communica-tion style. In October 1999 the School of Chemistry at the University of Exe-ter (UK) has introduced an optional course in 'History and Philosophy of Chemistry' for 2ndand 3rdyear chemis-try undergraduates. This course has since been growing in popularity among students and its philosophical compo-nent now consists of 11 lectures with additional 40 hours associated study-time for revision and background read-ing. The curriculum has also been con-tinuously updated to provide students with philosophical concepts relevant to – and also exemplified by – chemistry. The current syllabus addresses three philosophical topics: theory of science, logic of arguments, and ethics. The first part covers basic concepts of epistemol-ogy such as scientific reduction, scien-tific versus logical truth, verification, falsification, and methods of scientific inference (induction and deduction).
