Apr 17, 2025  
Undergraduate College Catalog 2024-2025 
    
Undergraduate College Catalog 2024-2025

PHIL 245 - Philosophy of Science


An examination of modern views about the nature of science. One emphasis is on epistemological issues: scientific knowledge and its distinctiveness, observational evidence and theory construction, and scientific method. A second emphasis concerns issues about science, values and democratic society. Offered in alternate years.

Credits 4



Area
Humanities

Division
Arts and Humanities

Compass Attributes
Humanities