Aim of the module is to present to students the impact of historical, anthropological and social context on the form of scientific research. Moreover, students will acquire basic theoretical tools helping to assess the range and limitations of the aforementioned impact. Science, and exact sciences in specific, are regarded as superior ways of acquiring knowledge about the world. Their objective, fact-oriented nature inclines to ignore the role of the context in which research is taking place, context random by its very nature. In the first place, the impact of theory as a whole and its relation with the extra-scientific cognitive bargain on the results of observational reports and empirical experiments. Therefore consciousness of that problem should be the basis of each scientist’s.
