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This undergraduate course provides a basic introduction to the main philosophical questions concerning scientific knowledge and methodology. It surveys a variety of positions on stan-dard philosophy of science topics, centered around four basic themes. First, we explore to what extent science resembles or differs from other ways of knowing.
13 lis 2015 · The study of scientific method is the attempt to discern the activities by which that success is achieved. Among the activities often identified as characteristic of science are systematic observation and experimentation, inductive and deductive reasoning, and the formation and testing of hypotheses and theories.
I. The Scientific Enterprise II. Confirmation. III. Probability and Statistics IV. Laws of Nature V. Evolution. In the first unit we will consider examples from past and present physics to motivate questions about what can be learned through the methods of science, focusing in particular on whether we can learn about things that are unobservable.
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Course Syllabus. 2021-22 session | Dr Rory Jubber | rory.jubber@ucl.ac.uk. 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.
We will be considering a few of the classic questions in the philosophy of science: What makes something a science? How does scientific reasoning work? What (if anything) justifies this reasoning? How do scientific theories change over time? Are scientific theories true? How 'objective' is science?
This paper presents an approach to teaching philosophy of science to science students that is different from traditional approaches. It is based on the assumption that modern science has been dominated by a scientific ideal where measurements and mathematics play a key role.
