HPS 220:
Nineteenth-Century Philosophy of Science
The transition in philosophy of science between the determinism of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the more statistically oriented science of the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth. A concentrated examination of the reconceptualization in England of induction and inductive science. The Baconian and Newtonian heritage, Scottish science, Whately's revival of logic, the Mill-Whewell debate, Charles Darwin, introduction of statistical science, Adolphe Quetelet, James Clerk Maxwell, late-century logicians and mathematicians, prelude to quantum mechanics.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum