The course "History and Philosophy of Science" introduces the phenomenon of science as a subject of special philosophical analysis, forms knowledge about the history and theory of science; about the laws of the development of science and the structure of scientific knowledge; about science as a profession and social institution; about methods of conducting scientific research; about the role of science in the development of society.

The purpose of the course is to study the patterns and trends in the development of special activities for the production of scientific knowledge, taken in their historical dynamics and considered in a historically changing socio-cultural context.

Course objectives:

•  identification of the specifics and interrelation of the main problems, topics of the philosophy of science and the history of science;
•  the study of the self-consciousness of science in its socio-philosophical perspectives;
•  consideration of the phenomenon of science as a profession, social institution and direct productive force;
•  disclosure of the disciplinary self-determination of natural, social and technical sciences, their commonality and differences.