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- 工学院，物質理工学院，環境・社会理工学院共通科目
- Liberal arts and basic science courses
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School of Environment and Society
- Department of Architecture and Building Engineering
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Department of Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering
- Department of Social and Human Sciences
- Department of Innovation Science
- Graduate major in Technology and Innovation Management
- Common courses
- Liberal arts and basic science courses
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Social and Human Sciences
- Instructor(s)
- Kaji Masanori Shirabe Masashi Nakajima Hideto Fudano Jun Bektas Yakup Saito Ken Kikuchi Yoshiyuki
- Class Format
- Lecture
- Media-enhanced courses
- Day/Period(Room No.)
- Tue3-4(W9-407)
- Group
- -
- Course number
- SHS.S461
- Credits
- 2
- Academic year
- 2016
- Offered quarter
- 1-2Q
- Syllabus updated
- 2016/4/27
- Lecture notes updated
- 2016/7/26
- Language used
- Japanese
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Course description and aims
This lecture aims at acquring expert knowledge for history of science and technology, and philosophy of sicence
Student learning outcomes
Students should get basic competence for professionals of above fields.
Keywords
history of science, history of technology, science and technology studies
Competencies that will be developed
| ✔ Specialist skills | Intercultural skills | Communication skills | Critical thinking skills | Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
Class flow
At first lecturer or students deliver 60 minutes presentation, and we move on discussion. At the end of lecture, students make comment sheets.
Course schedule/Required learning
| Course schedule | Required learning | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | The biginning of science | Discussion on what is sicence |
| Class 2 | The biginning of technology | Discussion on what is technology |
| Class 3 | Natural philosophy and physics of Aristotle | Natural philosophy of Milesian school,, Aristotole as a scientist |
| Class 4 | Periodisation of technology | Stone age, bronze age, iron age |
| Class 5 | System technology in the ancient | Roman engineering |
| Class 6 | Technology during Hellenism | Hero, Arichimedes |
| Class 7 | Neo Platonism | Platonian view of nature, and mysticism |
| Class 8 | The development of research for Medieval technology | Historography of Gimpel |
| Class 9 | Twelfth Century Renaissance | Historiograpyu of Haskins |
| Class 10 | Emergence of universities | Schlastic philosophy |
| Class 11 | Theory of the Scientific Revolution | Alexandre, Koyre, Copernics |
| Class 12 | Hermetic tradition and science | Ficino, Corpus Hermeticum |
| Class 13 | Galileo and Descartes | Reformation of mechanics |
| Class 14 | Newton | Opticks, Principia |
| Class 15 | From deism to the Enlightenmkent | John Toland |
Textbook(s)
Hideto Nakajima, Science in Society (in Japanese), NHK Books
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Please see referenced books in the text book above.
Assessment criteria and methods
Term paper 60%, comment sheet at the end of lectures 40%
Related courses
- LAH.T202 ： History of Science B
- LAH.T302 ： History of Science C
- LAH.T203 ： History of Technology B
- LAH.T303 ： History of Technology C
Prerequisites (i.e., required knowledge, skills, courses, etc.)
Graduate level knowledge for history of science and technology, and philosophy of science
