(in Polish) Ontologia, epistemologia i metodologia dyscypliny stosunki międzynarodowe 1600-SZD-N-OEM-SM
**Course Outline: Ontology, Epistemology, and Methodology of IR Discipline**
1. **Introduction to the Course**
Organization, content, literature, and requirements.
2. **Origins and Subject Matter of IR as a Social Science Discipline**
The concept of “international”, “international system”, and “international society”.
3. **How to Structure the Subject Matter of the IR Discipline**
“Level of analysis” and “agency-structure” approach.
4. **IR Sub-disciplines**
5. **The Concept of Global IR**
6. **“Differentia Specifica” of IR Discipline**
The role of metatheory and philosophy of science.
7. **IR Ontology**
How to define it and ontological position.
8. **Epistemology**
Epistemological position.
9. **IR Epistemology: Positivist Theories**
10. **IR Epistemology: Post-positivist Theories**
11. **Methodology and Research Methods**
Classification.
12. **Research Procedures**
Literature review, research questions, selecting dependent and independent variables.
13. **Deduction and Induction Strategy in Research**
Explaining vs. understanding.
14. **Forming Theories and Inferences**
Causality and forecasting in IR discipline.
15. **Student’s Research Project Presentation**
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
Knowledge: Knows and understands: subject matter of IR discipline, the role of philosophy of science in IR research
Skills: Can: formulate research question ,making critical literature review, using properly
research methods.
Social competences: Is ready to: making research proposal. applying methodologies,
formulating inferences.
Assessment criteria
- max 2 absences
- students activity during the classes.
- quality of the research proposal
Evaluation criteria: presence, presentation, class activity.
Bibliography
1.Hollis Martin and Smith Steve, Explaining and Understanding in International Relations, Oxford,1991.
2.Jackson Patrick T. The conduct of Inquiry in International Relations .Philosophy of Science and its implications for the Study of World Politics, Routledge 2011.
3. Additional list of scientific articles will be presented on first class.
Additional information
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