Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Philosophy

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE ***** DISTRIBUTION COURSE GROUP 1 ***** A study of selected contemporary issues in the philosophy of science. How do scientific theories provide us with an understanding of the world? How do our observations, in turn, provide support for scientific theories? Scientific theories are often thought to describe laws, or causal relations, but what are these? How are we to understand theories that tell us that certain events are more or less probable? No knowledge of any one science is presupposed. Normally offered every year. ***** Prerequisite: one course in philosphy.