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| 0618-1041-01 | Introduction to the Philosophy of Science I | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 2.0
Course description
The course will survey dominant philosophical accounts of science during and after the scientific revolution of the 17th century. The course will include the early attempts of Francis Bacon and Renee Descartes to describe the roles of experience and reason in constructing scientific knowledge, the philosophical principles of Isaac Newton’s philosophy of science, David Hume’s critique of inferences from experience and his skeptical outlook, the beginning of instrumental approaches to science at the end of the 18th century, Immanuel Kant’s philosophy of science, the principleã of historical sciences, the philosophical crisis that accompanied the fall of classical physics during the early 20th century, and the basic philosophical approaches developed as a response to this crisis.