Explore the history of competing conceptions of scientific knowledge with a noted professor from Lehigh University.
Science Wars: What Scientists Know and How They Know It
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Knowledge and Truth Are Age-Old Problems
- 02: Competing Visions of the Scientific Method
- 03: Galileo, the Catholic Church, and Truth
- 04: Isaac Newton's Theory of the Universe
- 05: Science vs. Philosophy in the 17th Century
- 06: Locke, Hume, and the Path to Skepticism
- 07: Kant Restores Certainty
- 08: Science, Society, and the Age of Reason
- 09: Science Comes of Age in the 19th Century
- 10: Theories Need Not Explain
- 11: Knowledge As a Product of the Active Mind
- 12: Trading Reality for Experience
- 13: Scientific Truth in the Early 20th Century
- 14: Two New Theories of Scientific Knowledge
- 15: Einstein and Bohr Redefine Reality
- 16: Truth, Ideology, and Thought Collectives
- 17: Kuhn's Revolutionary Image of Science
- 18: Challenging Mainstream Science from Within
- 19: Objectivity Under Attack
- 20: Scientific Knowledge as Social Construct
- 21: New Definitions of Objectivity
- 22: Science Wars of the Late 20th Century
- 23: Intelligent Design and the Scope of Science
- 24: Truth, History, and Citizenship
Taught by
Steven L. Goldman
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