On March 1, 2010 I had the first lecture of the course "Philosophy of Science" by Prof. Peschl at the University of Vienna. The session started with an introduction on the contents of the course, course design, learning outcomes, grading system and finally ended up by project group formation.
My first impression after the first session was, that it would be very interesting to learn the process of creating knowledge step by step and professionally. The professor mentioned that some aims of this course would be to explore what science is, what its goals are, what it does, how it works, what its limits are, and what are its basic assumptions about knowledge, methods, the world, etc. As a PhD candidate, who is just at the beginning of her PhD studying, I strongly looking forward to gain a lot of new thoughts and inputs during this course sessions, which could help me to broaden my view on the process of writting my dissertation.
So these are the four main points that came to my mind after the first session:
1.Get crystal clear on my goals of writing a PhD thesis-As I consider myself a new scientist, who is at the very beginning steps of her mission, it is important to exactly know what is my role and how could I create knowledge through familiarity with methods of knowledge creation.
2.Ask myself broad but direct question-What are the questions that matter to me? What do I really want to achieve in writting a dissertation? What is important to me about that?
3.Getting familiar with research methodology techniques-Observations, experiments, generative interview and appreciative interview.
4.Give myself a space to reflect-Reflection process, group discussion and brain storming.
M.M
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