OPEN LECTURE: What is this thing called Science? Issues of Causation, Explanation and Prediction
Time
7.2.2023 at 12.15 - 13.45
OPEN LECTURE by Visiting Professor Fazal Rizvi - What is this thing called Science? Issues of Causation, Explanation and Prediction
In this talk, prof. Rizvi will discuss shifting perspectives on science over the past few decades, paying particular attention on the ways in which the concepts of causation, explanation and prediction have been variously understood, and how they have major implications for thinking about educational sciences. To do this, he will briefly consider the key ideas of four major philosophers of science -Carl Hempel, Karl Popper, Thomas Kuhn, and Bruno Latour - in an attempt to answer the question, what is this thing called science.
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Professor Fazal Rizvi is Professor of Global Studies in Education at the University of Melbourne (2010–), Emeritus Professor of Global Studies in Education at the University of Illinois, USA (2001–) and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Research on Lifelong Learning and Education CELE.
Rizvi’s main research areas are globalization and internationalization of education, identity and culture in transnational contexts, higher education reforms is India, globalization and education policy, and education policies of transnational mobility and diaspora.
In this talk, prof. Rizvi will discuss shifting perspectives on science over the past few decades, paying particular attention on the ways in which the concepts of causation, explanation and prediction have been variously understood, and how they have major implications for thinking about educational sciences. To do this, he will briefly consider the key ideas of four major philosophers of science -Carl Hempel, Karl Popper, Thomas Kuhn, and Bruno Latour - in an attempt to answer the question, what is this thing called science.
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Professor Fazal Rizvi is Professor of Global Studies in Education at the University of Melbourne (2010–), Emeritus Professor of Global Studies in Education at the University of Illinois, USA (2001–) and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Research on Lifelong Learning and Education CELE.
Rizvi’s main research areas are globalization and internationalization of education, identity and culture in transnational contexts, higher education reforms is India, globalization and education policy, and education policies of transnational mobility and diaspora.
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