PHIL 3720 - History and Philosophy of Science II

A philosophical and historical study of the development of modern science from Newton’s Principia through the twentieth century. The course traces the development of multiple modern physical ideas such as the theory of light, thermodynamics, relativity, quantum theory, and chaos theory as well as the parallel developments in methodology in thinkers such as Bacon, Locke, Herschel, Poincare, Duhem, and Einstein.

Credits: 3 hours

Notes: This course satisfies General Education Area VII: Natural Science and Technology: Applications and Implications.