History and Philosophy of Science
Eötvös Loránd University,
Budapest
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About the department |
The Department of History and
Philosophy of Science was established in its present form as an
independent academic unit within the Faculty of Sciences of Loránd
Eötvös University in 1994. Currently the Department
consists of 5 tenured faculty and one permanent guest lecturer; more
than ten further lecturers are related to the department on a
temporary basis. In the last decade, the department hosted 7
Széchenyi Professors of Philosophy (“Széchenyi” is
a 3-year distinguished professorship).
According to the Department's teaching
and research profile, the faculty members have various degrees in
both sciences and philosophy. The HPS Department regularly offers
30-40 different one-semester lecture courses in history and
philosophy of science for students majoring science, mathematics,
and computer science. The average number of students
enrolling to the courses offered by the Department is about 2,000
per term.
The Department participates in several
Ph.D. programs at the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Computer
Science. All together there are 6-8 PhD students under the
supervision of the Department.
Establishing the Department also was
motivated by the aim of creating a research unit at Loránd
Eötvös University with a profile in history, philosophy and
foundations of science. The Department has been successful in
establishing itself as a center of research in Hungary in the
discipline: its record in international publications in the field,
its extensive international contacts, its cooperation with science
and philosophy departments of Eötvös and other Hungarian
universities and the number of research grants awarded to members of
the department make the Department unique in the Hungarian university
system.
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