On successful completion of the course, the candidate has:
Advanced knowledge about:
Skills:
General competence:
The course provides an overview of periods of history of ideas that explain the background to the emergence of modern science relevant to the disciplines of the Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences. Relevant philosophical texts that form the basis for relevant scientific traditions (positivism, hermeneutics/phenomenology and critical theory will be reviewed).
2. Particular topics in the philosophy of science - paradigms, approaches, objectivity, and subjectivity in
scientific knowledge
3. Research ethics
4. The link between theory, methods and the candidates own research illustrated by ongoing PhD projects
1 semester
5
Spring, Autumn
Kristiansand
Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences