PHIL 3300
Conceptual Foundations of Modern Science
Where does modern science come from? This course examines the winding paths by which the dominant scientific world-views of the 20th century became established. We will discuss a variety of broad themes: scientific method or methods, revolutionary science, the relationship between science and society, and the aims of science. This course is not intended to be a comprehensive survey of the history of science. Instead, we will focus upon a few key figures - Galileo, Newton, Darwin - and we will read both primary and secondary literature on their significance to these broad themes.
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Professor Des Chene is awesome. Though he is pretty spacey and tends to go on long (but usually interesting) tangents, he is extremely smart and usually pretty good at explaining harder concepts. He's also a really nice guy and great to talk to about things other than class. The material he teaches I am not particularly interested in, however.
4/9/2010