MPYE 009 Philosophy of
Science and Cosmology
Solved Assignment 2020-21
Note: i)
Answer all five questions. ii) All five questions carry equal marks. iii) The
answer of questions no. 1 and 2 should be in about 500 words.
1. What
is the principle of uncertainty? How does Heisenberg relate the principle of
Uncertainty to the principle of causality? Do you think Heisenberg was
successful in relating both these principles?
Or
What is
falsification? Write an essay on the contribution of Karl H Popper in the
development of philosophy of science.
2.
Differentiate perceptual and conceptual space and time. Compare idealistic and
realistic of realistic theory of space and time.
Or
What
relation do you see between Science and Philosophy? Explain Philosophy of Science
as ‘Science Criticism’.
3. Answer
any two questions in about 250 words each.
a) What
do you understand by observation? Discuss the limits of observation in Science.
b)
Compare Classical Mechanics with Quantum Mechanics.
c) What
is Teleological Explanation? Do you think that there is any role of
teleological explanation in Science? Give Arguments in the favor of your
answer.
d) What
is definition? What problems one face to define something?
4. Answer
any four questions in about 150 words each.
a) Write
a short essay on Schrodinger’s cat experiment.
b) What
is Epistemological Anarchism? Explain.
c)
Compare Lakatos’s SRP and Kuhn’s notion of Paradigm.
d)
Differentiate Law, Theory and Principle.
e)
Compare the idea of gravitation given by Newton and Einstein.
f) “Some
say that the only thing that quantum theory has going for it, in fact, is that
it is unquestionably correct.” Comment on it.
5. Write
short notes on any five in about 100 words each.
a)
Incommensurability
b)
Paradigm Shift
c)
Evidential as Perceptual
d)
Quantum Tunneling
e) Uncertainty
Principle
f)
Decoherence
g) Dual
Nature of a Particle
h)
Expanding Universe
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