HPS 2163 - SCIENTIFIC CHANGE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The aim of this seminar is to examine the various attempts made by philosophers, historians, cognitive scientists and sociologists to understand the nature of historical changes in the concepts, methods and theories of the natural sciences. We will consider a range of claims regarding the causes of change, the tempo and scale of scientific change, whether scientific change entails incommensurability, and in what ways it may be progressive or degenerative
Academic Career: Graduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Grad LG/SNC Basis

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