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PHIL UN3551 PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. 3.00 points.
Enrollment limited to 40.
Prerequisites: one philosophy course or the instructor's permission.
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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Fall 2022: PHIL UN3551
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| Course Number | Section/Call Number | Times/Location | Instructor | Points | Enrollment |
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| PHIL 3551 | 001/11493 | T Th 2:40pm - 3:55pm 716 Philosophy Hall |
David Albert | 3.00 | 24/35 |