Minor in History of Science and Technology - Science and Nature in the Modern Period HSTC 4001   Science and Nature in the Modern Period
CREDIT HOURS: 3
This course examines the development of science in its social, philosophical, political, and cultural contexts from the end of the 18th century to the present. Topics will include the development of our contemporary notion of evidence, the debates over the “scientific method”, the “historicisation of nature,” the rise of “big” science, the acceptance of probabilistic accounts of the world, and the construction of human nature in modern biology. Emphasis will be on the physical and biological sciences.
FORMAT: Seminar
EXCLUSIONS: HSTC 4000X/Y.06