To provide cultural and philosophical ground for the main paradigms of scientific investigation.
Contents

The course will introduce some key concepts of modern philosophy of science. The principle of verification, the falsification and the demarcation between science and metaphysics, the duality theory/observation, the dualism between the analytic and the synthetic and, finally, the dualism between logic of discovery and logic of control will be examined in a historical and critical perspective. We will analyze the problems that each of these concepts entails. Particular emphasis will be given to abduction as an attempt to overcome the dichotomy logic of discovery/logic of control. It will be seen as the process by which we come to conceive a hypothesis is not merely a psychological leap, but rather it entails inferential capabilities.