Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON SCIENCE

Department: Philosophy

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The nature, origins, and impact of scientific knowledge will be examined from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. In addition to works by some of the most relevant philosophers of the past, including Descartes and Hume, readings will include writings of scientists such as Newton, and from 20th-century philosophers, and historians. Normally offered every year.