Epistemology - 4AMEP401
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Goals
- to complement the training of engineering students with general knowledge on the history of science, epistemology and the interactions between science, technology and society
- to provide some understanding of the dynamic nature of scientific thought and the science/society dialectic
- to develop students' capacity for debate, preparing them to participate in public debate both as citizens and as future experts in the implementation of certain technologies
Content - Technology and civilisation: the main steps
- Technology and civilisation: differential analysis
- A different subject chosen every year, e.g.:
- Mathematics: discovery or invention?
- Darwin, the evolution of species
- Space, time, matter, energy, cosmology and the question of the origin
- The digital revolution and artificial intelligence: impacts, limits, dangers
- How to conduct a citizen debate in relation to scientific knowledge
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PrerequisitesAny general BSc training in science
Additional Information Course ID : 4AMEP401
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Bibliography - Technology and society : a world history, Andrew Ede, Cambridge University Press, 2019
- The rise of modern science explained: a comparative history, H. Floris Cohen, Cambridge University Press, 2015
- Du mode d’existence des objets techniques, Gilbert Simondon, Aubier, 2012
- Techniques, technologie et civilisation, Marcel Mauss, Presses Universitaires de France, 2012
- The path to sustained growth, E.A. Wrigley, Cambridge University Press, 2016
- Histoire des techniques : de l’outil à la machine, Jean Baudet, Vuibert 2004
- Histoire des techniques : de l’outil au système, Jean Baudet, Vuibert 2016
- La technique ou l’enjeu du siècle, Jacques Ellul, Economica, 2008
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Date of update November 29, 2022
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