Courses - Fall 2023
PHIL453
Philosophy of Science II
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: Students must have completed a minium of two philosophy courses.
A comprehensive survey of developments in the main problems of the philosophy of science from logical positivism to the present. The nature of theories, models, laws, and counterfactuals, testing, inductive logic, and confirmation theory, experimental methodology, measurement, explanation, concept formation, growth of scientific knowledge, and scientific realism.
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