Philosophy of Science
1:10pm–2:25pm
MATHEMATICS BUILDING MAT 417
Morningside
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Description
Enrollment limited to 40. Philosophical problems within science and about the nature of scientific knowledge in the 17th-20th centuries. Sample problems: causation and scientific explanation; induction and real kinds; verification and falsification; models, analogies and simulations; the historical origins of the modern sciences; scientific revolutions; reductionism and supervenience; differences between physics, biology and the social sciences; the nature of life; cultural evolution; human nature; philosophical issues in cosmology
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3.4 / 5
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4.5 / 5
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3.7 / 5 · Hard
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- 3 credits
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