本课程以专题形式，结合对古代典籍的研读，讨论中国古人在自然观、方法论和科学观等方面的认识。涉及到古人对人与自然关系认识的演变，对物质、时空和运动变化的研究和看法，古人在讨论科学技术问题时所采用的思维方法，实验思想和逻辑方法在传统科学中的应用，格物致知学说的含义及其历史演变，中国传统科学中的重要理论学说和范畴、命题等所表现的古人的思维模式，古人对一些重要学科的社会作用及其内在发展规律的认识等。

The course History of Chinese Scientific Thought is composed of a series special topics. Combining with the study of ancient Chinese codes and records, the course discusses the ancient Chinese people’s understanding about the concept of nature, the methodology about science, and the cognition of science and technology. It deals with the evolution of the ancient people’s understanding about the relationship between human being and nature, their opinion about substance, about time and space, as well as movement and change. Other topics such as the ancient people’s thinking way about the science and technology, the application of the idea of experiment and the method of logic, the meaning and its historical evolution of the theory Ge Wu Zhi Zhi (study the phenomena of nature in order to acquire knowledge ), the thinking mode appeared in some important theories and categories as well as propositions in traditional Chinese science, the understanding of the social function and the internal developing law of some important subjects, and so on, will also be discussed in the course.