![1. Philosophy of Science, Introductory Course Overview: Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences](https://ytimg.googleusercontent.com/vi/XOVsAdedx_I/hqdefault.jpg)
The references:
a) Mike Russell, Life as the conversion of CO2 to CH4: https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/free-energy-and-the-meaning-of-life
b) Sean M. Carroll: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRhV1rWIpm_pU19bBm_2RXw
Provisional lesson plan:
1. Naturalism from Thales to Darwin
2. Contemporary epistemology from Schlick to Kuhn
3. Phenomenology and psychoanalysis
4. Evolution of culture and rationality
5. Social theory: traditional societies and modern societies
6. The Enlightenment: Hobbes, Rousseau, Hegel
7. The Marxist perspective
8. Criticism of Nietzsche's ratio
9. Foucault’s Power/Knowledge: social construction of reality
10. Weber: Iron cage of rationalization
11. Theorize globalization
12. Facing global challenges: Gramsci and Habermas
My playlist Philosophy and methodology of natural and social sciences:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?listPLB4w-p0WTsoJ9_ZifVRuI1IxrY6OJKKg2
My introduction to political philosophy on COURSERA:
https://www.coursera.org/learn/intro-to-politics-philosophy
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