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PHIL207 Science, Knowledge and Reality

10 cp
Prerequisites
1 Philosophy unit at introductory 100-level
Teaching Organisation Lectures, tutorials, seminars.

This unit is concerned with the nature of scientific inquiry, the worldview science presents and the influence of philosophical theories of science on science. Topics will be chosen from broad areas such as the following: historical and contemporary discussions of how the growth of knowledge is to be characterised; the nature of scientific hypotheses and of scientific inference and inductive reasoning; debates concerned with the sociology of science and what constitutes adequate explanation in different branches of science; the ontology of science or the sciences.

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