Philosophy of Science

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Philosophy of Science (3-0) Diversity of topics and issues open to instructor, including the debate between scientific realists and various anti-realists (empiricists, phenomenologists, instrumentalists, social constructivists); Kuhn and the sociology of knowledge, post-Kuhnian thinkers such as Lakatos, Latour, and Feyerabend; and feminist and postmodern/postcolonial critiques of science. May also focus on the work of major scientific thinkers like Galileo, Newton, Darwin, and Einstein.