This course is offered in conjunction with the course “Philosophy after the Practice Turn” for students, who want to get first-hand experience how to do philosophy in practice with qualitative methods. While “Philosophy after the practice turn” is a standalone class, for this class: “Philosophy in the Field”, students are highly encouraged to enroll in both courses to learn about the theory and the practice. Within one semester, the aim is to do an empirically informed philosophy project. Students will engage in cognitive ethnography, develop a philosophically relevant research question, operationalize the question to construct a topic guide, learn about research ethics and data protection, methodological questions, do fieldwork, analysis, interpretation and communication of the results. The course will end with discussing limitations of doing empirically informed philosophy of science.
Prerequisites: A willingness to actively participate in the research process is required.
- Kursleiter/in: Nora Hangel