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The Scientific Method, MNXA19/SASF10, 7.5hp VT 2019
Oral presentations
The students will work in pairs and orally present a short, 20 minute
lecture about a specific part of the course book. The parts are:
- Popper and falsification
- Kuhn and paradigms
- Feyerabend and anarchy
- Bayes' theorem and the evaluation of hypotheses
- What is a law of nature?
- What is natural science
Even if the presentations should be based on the course book, but the
students must also include other material (e.g. some of the
suggested additional reading). Everybody
in the audience have read the book, so to catch their attention it is
not enough to just reiterate facts from there. Make sure you find you own
examples to concretise abstractions (everyone have already read the
examples in the book).
The purpose of these seminars is both to replace the traditional
lectures based on the course book, and to develop the students oral
presentation skills.
If you want to use the projector, please make sure there is a laptop
available and that it and your presentation actually works together
with the projector.
The seminars will be assessed by the students themselves. Each
pair of students will be assigned to assess the presentation of
another pair and give oral feedback. For the feedback the students
should consider the following:
- General: Was the presentation well thought through and
prepared? Was it understandable? Did it catch the interest of the
audience?
- Content: Was the selection of material from the course
book relevant? Was other material used? Were the main points clear?
Was the level of abstraction suitable? Were there relevant concrete
examples to make the abstractions understandable? Were these
examples other than those in the book?
- Disposition: Was the contents clear? Was the reasoning
easy to follow? Was there proper and catching introduction? Was
there a proper ending with conclusions and outlook?
- Execution: Was the type of language used suitable? Could
you hear what they said? Did they read verbatim from their notes?
Did they have a clear stage presence or were they hiding? Did they
look the audience in the eye? Were there pictures or examples to
help the audience to remember? How well did they use the
projector/whiteboard?
Needless to say, the students should consider these points also when
preparing their own presentations, not only when criticising others.
Please give positive feedback. If there is negative critique,
focus on suggestions for how to improve.
The seminars will be presented on Monday the 11th of
February 13-17, and on Tuesday the 12th of February 13-17 in the Theory Lab.
Both the presentations and the feedback are compulsory parts of the course.
Detailed seminar schedule for VT19
Monday |
11/2 |
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time |
Title |
Speakers |
feedback |
13:15 |
Popper and falsification |
Martin Lindgren Sebastian Hutteri |
Aram Fatah Simon Bengtsson |
13:45 |
Kuhn and paradigms |
Martin Oshaughnessy Albin Lindvall |
Martin Lindgren Sebastian Hutteri |
14:30 |
Feyerabend and anarchy |
Julian Boy Thomas Eriksson |
Martin Oshaughnessy Albin Lindvall |
15:00 |
Bayes' theorem and the evaluation of hypotheses |
Aram Fatah Simon Bengtsson |
Julian Boy Thomas Eriksson |
Tuesday |
12/2 |
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time |
Title |
Speakers |
feedback |
13:15 |
What is a law of nature |
Leo Ekbom Adriaan Merlevede |
Oisin Clancy |
13:45 |
What is natural science |
Juan Mendoza Yasser Mahfoud |
Leo Ekbom Adriaan Merlevede |
15:00 |
Kuhn and paradigms |
Alexandra Wernersson Zenny Wettersten |
Juan Mendoza Yasser Mahfoud |
15:30 |
Feyerabend and anarchy |
Oisin Clancy |
Alexandra Wernersson Zenny Wettersten |
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