PHIL 1366 Philosophy and History of Science and Technology
This course is designed to use history and philosophy in the service of science and engineering education. It does this by examining a selection of notable episodes in the history of science and Techno-Science. Episodes examined may include the mathematical sciences in Antiquity, Archimedes' inventions and principle of hydrostatics, Roman techno-science, Medieval medicine, alchemy, Kepler's laws of planetary motion, Galileo's conflict with the Catholic Church, Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of motion, Dalton's atomic theory, Louis Pasteur's public trial of the anthrax vaccine, Charles Darwin's proposal of the theory of evolution by natural selection, the development of the atomic bomb, and the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.
Offered
As scheduled