TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Compulsory Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Doctorate Of Science
YEAR OF STUDY	1
SEMESTER	First Term (Fall)
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	10
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	Professor Ali Selami Sargut
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) Improving the skill of sketching general framework of the Philosophy of Social Science with a critical mind. 2) Becoming a researcher who is eligible to improve and criticise the literature in the field of the Philosophy of Social Science. 3) Improving the skill of writing a conceptual paper which is prepared as addressable in the field of the Philosophy of Social Science. 4) Will comprehend ethical principles specific to social sciences
MODE OF DELIVERY	Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT	None
COURSE DEFINITION	Science foresees about building assumptions, generating conjectures, measuring data and converting accumulated knowledge to guiding theories. In case of philosophy of science, it concerns about how science accomplishes these works and what will be the consequences of these researches. In addition to regular work of philosophy of science it also deeply investigates metaphysic, epistemology, and relations of linguistics and science. Despite some disagreements about the relation between philosophy and science, we think science can?T be left out from the thinking skills. So we agree on the attitude of scientists: ?there would be no science without philosophy?. The endeavor of social sciences for gaining legitimacy against natural sciences is a direct concern of the philosophy of social science. Therefore the philosophy of social science investigates similarities and differences between social sciences and natural sciences.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week Beginning: The great responsibility of doing science 2nd Week Insights of scientists 3rd Week The philosophy of science and the social sciences 4th Week The philosophy of science and the social sciences 5th Week The philosophy of science and the social sciences 6th Week The philosophy of science and the social sciences 7th Week Scientific realism 8th Week Scientific realism 9th Week Positivism - Logical positivism 10th Week Positivism - Logical positivism 11th Week Mind and Consciousness theory 12th Week Social Realism 13th Week Theory building on the field of organization and management 14th Week The beginning of the end
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	Azevedo, J. 2002. Updating organizational epistemology. J. A. C. Baum (Der.). The Blackwell Companion to Organizations: 715-732. Oxford: Blackwell. Balashov, Y. ve Rosenberg, A (Der.). 2002. Philosophy of science: Contemporary reading. London: Routledge. Bird, A. 2003. Kuhn, nominalism, and empiricism. Philosophy of Science, 70:690-719. Boyd, R. 1999. On the current status of scientific realism. R. Boyd, P. Gasper ve J. D. Trout(Der.), The philosophy of science: 196-222. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press. Boxenbaum, E. ve Rouleau, L. 2011. New knowledge products as bricolage: Metaphors and scripts in organizational theory. Academy of Management Review, 36(2):272-296. Bunge, M. 1993. Realism and antirealism in social sciences. Theory and Decision, 35:207-235. Burrell, G. ve Morgan, G. 1979. Sociological paradigms and organizational analysis. New Hampshire: Heineman. s. 1-117. Cruse, P. 2007. Van Fraassen on the nature of empricism. Metaphilosophy, 38(4):489-508. Chakravartty, A. 2004. Structuralism as a form of scientific realism. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 18(2):151-171. Collins, R. 1998. The sociology of philosophies: A global theory of intellectual change. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. DiSalle, R. 2002. Reconsidering Kant, Friedman, logical positivism, and the exact sciences. Philosophy of Science, 69:191-211. Fay, B. 2003. Phenomenology and social inquiry: From consciousness to culture and critique. S. P. Turner ve P. A. Roth (Der.). The Blackwell guide to the philosophy of social sciences: 42-63. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Folger, R. And Turillo, C. J. 1999. Theorizing as the Thickness of Thin Abstraction. Academy of Management Review, 24:605-622. Hacking, I. 1999. The social construction of what? Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Hall, J. R. 1990. Epistemology and sociohistorical inquiry. Annual Review of Sociology, 16:329-351. Hopp, W. 2008. Husserl, phenomenology and foundationalism. Inquiry, 51(2):194-216. Keat, R. ve Urry, J. 1975. Social theory as science. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Keat, R. ve Urry, J. 1975. Structure and structuralism. Social theory as science: 119-140. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Kilduff, M., Mehra, A. ve Dunn, M. B. 2011. From blue sky research to problem solving: A philosophy of science theory of new knowledge production. Academy of Management Review, 36(2):297-317. Kitchener, R. F. 2004. Logical positivism, naturalistic epistemology, and the foundations of psychology. Behavior and philosophy, 32:37-54. Kuhn, T. S. 1970. The structure of scientific revolutions. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. s. 1-76. Lieberson, S. ve Lynn, F. B. 2002. Barking up the wrong branch: Scientific alternatives to the current model of sociological science. Annual Review of Sociology, 28:1-19. Mahner, M. ve Bunge, M. 2001. Function and functionalism: A synthetic perspective. Philosophy of Science, 68:75-94. Martin, J. L. 2003. What is field theory? American Journal of Sociology, 109:1-49. Miller, A. I. 2000. Insights of genious: Imagery and creativity in science and art: 1-36. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Moldoveanu, M. C. ve Baum, J. A. 2002. Contemporary debates in organizational epistemology. J. A. C. Baum (Der.). The Blackwell Companion to Organizations: 733-751. Oxford: Blackwell. Psillos, S. 2005. Scientific realism and metaphysics. Ratio, 18(4):385-404.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Lecture,Discussion
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Quantity Percentage(%) Assignment 1 50 Presentation of Article 1 50 Total(%) 100 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 100 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 0 Total(%) 100
ECTS WORKLOAD	Activities Number Hours Workload Midterm exam Preparation for Quiz Individual or group work Preparation for Final exam Course hours 14 3 42 Preparation for Midterm exam Laboratory (including preparation) Final exam Homework 4 40 160 Article 3 30 90 Total Workload 292 Total Workload / 30 9,73 ECTS Credits of the Course 10
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	Turkish
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No