Typically, philosophy of science is philosophy of a particular science. This lecture turns to the philosophy of physics to examine such concepts as the reduction of thermodynamics to …

Specific topics will include how scientists generate knowledge through observations, experiments, and simulations; scientific objectivity and failures of scientific objectivity; the self-correcting …

2016年5月2日 · This course introduces the core issues in the philosophy of science, in particular the debates about the nature of the scientific method, theories of confirmation, the …

The aim of philosophy of science is to understand what scientists did and how they did it, where history of science shows that they performed basic research very well.

This first lecture by Dr. Hakob Barseghyan at the University of Toronto introduces key questions in the history and philosophy of science. According to popular science mythology, real science …

2024年8月28日 · Science has become a defining feature of modern life. But what is science? How did it arise? What are its foundations and implications? In this course, students explore key …

In 11 lec­tures, Sanders probes the nature of the sci­en­tif­ic enter­prise, the log­ic of sci­ence, its claims to reli­a­bil­i­ty, and its rela­tion­ships to soci­ety and to prob­lems of human val­ues. You can …

This is an introductory module in the philosophy of science. The course is divided into two parts: (1) the epistemology of science and (2) the metaphysics of science. The first part of the course …

Philosophy involves critical reflection on any issue of life in particular, or life itself in general, in an attempt to have a deeper understanding of what it is all about: whether it is meaningful or …

Philosophy Undergraduate Lecture MW 4:10-5:25PM. Philosophical problems within science and about the nature of scientific knowledge in the 17th-20th centuries.