The Geoscientific Method
The course examines the historical and philosophical underpinnings of geosciences.
We use a historical framework to explore the components and the evolution of modern scientific method. We want to understand how scientific hypotheses are formulated and tested and how scientific data are reviewed, interpreted and presented. The goal is to think about thinking in order to organize, be aware of and challenge our own methodologies of science and analysis.
Please order the book now if you are planning to take the course.
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Schedule
The schedule will be available no later than one month before the start of the course. We do not recommend print-outs as changes can occur. At the start of the course, your department will advise where you can find your schedule during the course.The schedule was updated on June 18 2020.
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Course literature
Note that the course literature can be changed up to two months before the start of the course.
REQUIRED
Science Rules: A Historical Introduction to Scientific Methods
Peter Achinstein, editor
published by Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004
paperback ISBN 0-8018-7944-2
Revolutions in the Earth: James Hutton and the True Age of the World
by Stephen Baxter
Phoenix; New Ed edition (5 Feb 2004)
Paperback ISBN: 0753817616Capital of the Mind: How Edinburgh Changed the World
James Buchan
John Murray Publishers Ltd; New edition edition (16 Aug 2004)
paperback ISBN 0719565448The Scottish Enlightenment: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World
Arthur Herman
Fourth Estate Ltd; New edition edition (2 Jan 2003)
paperback ISBN 1841152765 -
Course reports
Course evaluations allow the possibility to affect and take responsibility for your own learning and gives important information for our work with pedagogical development.
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The course evaluation is composed of a number of questions and specific questions for each course. If you, as a student, want to contribute with more course specific questions you may send them to studies@geo.su.se.
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Contact
Elisabeth DäckerAdministrativ studierektor
- Visiting address
- S 316
- Svante Arrheniusväg 8 C, Geohuset
Alasdair SkeltonProfessor of Geochemistry and petrology
- Visiting address
- R 425
- Svante Arrheniusväg 8 C, Geohuset
