Term
Format
On Campus
Subject Area
Course Number
PHIL 1800 601
Course Code
PHIL1800601
Course Key
85858
Schedule
Day(s)
Tuesday
Thursday
Time
5:15pm-6:45pm
5:15pm-6:45pm
Instructor
SCHIPANI, VANESSA A
Primary Program
Fulfills
COL-SECTOR-Nat Sci Across Disc
Course Description
What counts as a scientific theory? What counts as evidence for a scientific theory? Are scientific inferences justified? Does science give us truths or approximate truths about a world that exists independently of us? How can we know? Does it matter? These are all perennial questions in the philosophy of science, and the goal of this course is to look at how philosophers have answered these questions since the scientific revolution. In addition to reading classic work by philosophers of science, we will read material from living and dead scientists in order to gain a deeper appreciation of the philosophical questions that have troubled the most brilliant scientists in Western science.
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