Overview
Description
This course examines philosophical questions, such as “What is Life?”, as they relate to the history of scientific developments. Selected issues and topics related to scientific revolutions, theories, and discoveries are explored from philosophical, historical, and other interdisciplinary perspectives.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring
Terms
spring
Related Courses
Cross Listed With HIST 480ACross Listed With PHIL 438
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- write a lengthy historiographical analysis or research paper in which historiography figures prominently.
- identify the main themes of the field in individual and group discussions.
- analyze examples of major secondary works in the field.
- identify and explain selected topics in scientific revolutions, theory choice, discovery, relation of history, philosophy, sociology and psychology of science.
- analyze and critically review the relationship between philosophy and the history of science, and make an original research contribution to an intersecting subject area.