Syllabus and Recommended Readings
Candidates are expected to enjoy (and be puzzled by) Reading the following before the start of the course:
Bachelard, G. (2002/1938). The formation of the scientific mind. Ch 1. The idea of the epistemological obstacle (pp. 24-32). Manchester: Clinamen Press.
Tranøy, K. E. (). Science and ethics: Some of the main principles and problems. In K. E. Tranøy, The Moral Import of Science. Essays on 70th birthday
Yurevich, A. V. (2009). Cognitive frames of psychology: Demarcations and ruptures. IPBS: Integrative Psychological & Behavioral Science, 43, 89-103.
Valsiner, J. (2010). Why simple lessons from history are recurrently forgotten: The bubble of the “epistemic markets”. Revista de Historia de la Psicologia, 31, 1, 81-94.
Valsiner, J. (maybe 2016). Beyond the three snares. New Ideas in Psychology
For wider meta-theoretical background the following is recommended:
Cabell, K. R., and Valsiner, J. (Eds.) (2014). The catalyzing mind: Beyond models of causality. Vol, 11 of Advances of Theoretical Psychology. New York: Springer.
BASIC IDEA: The recommended literature to our encounters should be, in the ideal case, most relevant to your draft essay and/or PhD-project. The candidates are also more than encouraged to look at the other recommended texts from other disciplines—the goal of the essays for this “course” is the arrival at a publishable text on a relevant issue at the intersection of the Ph.D. project and general philosophy and sociology of science that could support the Ph,D. project as a published internationally valuable message in your field. Our encounters over the week are meant to facilitate your move to participation in solving the grand issues of science <> society <> knowledge relationships that continue to haunt us under the new conditions of information flows (“information noise”) and social organization of knowledge construction in the 21st century.
PLAN OF JOINT WORK
Includes recommended background reading for the specific seminars
April, 18, 2016-- 0915-1030: Jaan Valsiner
Introduction: Shared concerns of sciences about knowledge making: epistemological and social conditions for knowledge.
Valsiner, J. (2012). The guided science. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction [ch 2—The Axiomatic basis]
Asquith, P. (2000). Negotiating science: Internationalization and Japanese primatology. In S. Strum and L. Fedigan (Eds), Primate Encounters. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
April, 18, 2016-- 1045-1230: Roger Strand:
Why do we need philosophy of science?
Sardar, Z. (2011). Introducing philosophy of science: A Graphic Guide. London: Icon Books. The book is available from Akademika Blindern.
April, 19, 2016-- 0915-1030: Thomas Hylland Eriksen:
Philosophy of science and social anthropology
Leavitt, J. (2014). Words and worlds: Ethnography and theories of translation.Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 4(2), 193–220.
Hastrup, K. (1995). The ethnographic present: On starting in time. In K. Hastrup, A passage to anthropology (pp. 9-25). London: Routledge. The text is available in Fronter.
April, 19, 2016-- 1045-1215-- Sebastian Watzl:
Philosophy of science and neuroscience
Dupré, J. (1983). The disunity of science. Mind, 92(367), 321-346.
Roskies, A. L. (2008). Neuroimaging and inferential distance. Neuroethics, 1(1), 19-30.
Roskies, A. L. (2009). Brain‐mind and structure‐function relationships: A methodological response to Coltheart. Philosophy of Science, 76(5), 927-939.
April, 20, 2016-- 0915-1030: Gunnar Colbjørn Aakvaag:
Philosophy of science and sociology
Aakvaag, G. C. (2013). Social mechanisms and grand theories of modernity - worlds apart? Acta Sociologica, 56(3), 199-212.
Bauman, Z. (2000). Emancipation (chap. 1). In Z. Bauman, Liquid modernity (pp. 16-52). London: Polity Press. The text is available in Fronter.
April, 20, 1045-1215: Jaan Valsiner:
Philosophy of science and methodology: the Methodology Cycle
Kvale, S. (2003). The church, the factory and the market: Scenarios for psychology in a postmodern age. Theory & Psychology, 13(5), 579-603.
Madsen, O. J. (2014). Psychology oblivious to psychology: Some limits on our capacity for processing psychology in society. Theory & Psychology, 24(5), 609-629.
Valsiner, J. (2012). The guided science. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction [ch 10—Pathways to methodologies]
Valsiner, J. (2013). Methodology in a new key. Unpublished ms.
April, 20, 2016: 1315-1430—Jaan Valsiner:
Philosophy of science and psychology: overcoming pseudo-empiricism in the multifaceted science.
Smedslund, J. (2016). Why psychology cannot be an empirical science. IPBS: Integrative Psychological & Behavioral Science, 50, 2 [published on-line in 2015 DOI 10.1007s12124-015-9339-x]
Valsiner, J. (2012). The guided science. [ch 9— Levels of languages]
Valsiner, J. (2015). Generalization is possible only from a single case (and from a single instance). In B. Wagoner, N. Chaudhary and P. Hviid (Eds.), Integrating experiences: Body and mind moving between contexts (pp. 233-244). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishers.
April, 21, 2016: 0915-1030: Raino Malness:
Philosophy of science and political science
Elster, J. (2015). Explanation and mechanisms (chap. 1). In J. Elster, Explaining social behavior (Rev. Ed.) (pp. 1-22). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. The text is available in Fronter https://fronter.com/uio/links/files.phtml/1949102231$104375707$/Syllabus/Elster_Explaining+social+behavior.pdf.
April, 21, 2016: 1045-1215-- Jo Thori Lind:
Philosophy of science and economics
Friedman, M. (1953). The methodology of positive economics. In M. Friedman, Essays in positive economics (pp. 3-16; 30-43). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Fourcade, M., Ollion, E. & Algan, Y. (2015). The superiority of economists. <http://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.29.1.89> Journal of Economic Perspectives, 29(1), 89-114.
April, 21, 2016: 1245-14.30—Jaan Valsiner:
Discussion and Conclusions
Valsiner, J. (2012). The guided science. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction [ch 4—Pathways to evidence]
Smedslund, J., and Ross, L. (2014). Research-based knowledge in psychology: What, if anything, is its incremental value to the practitioner? . IPBS: Integrative Psychological & Behavioral Science, 48, 365-383.