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Recently Offered Graduate Courses
- 2501 Core seminar in philosophy of science
- 2502 Core seminar in history of science I
- 2503 Core seminar in history of science II
- 2505 Philosophical foundations of cognitive science
- 2510 Newton's Principia
- 2511 Genesis and Geology
- 2517 The mechanical philosophy of the 17th century
- 2520 Newton
- 2522 Special topics in history of science
- 2525 20th-century biology
- 2526 History of relativity theory
- 2528 Galileo
- 2532 History of quantum theory
- 2533 Descartes
- 2534 General relativity and gravitation
- 2535 Nature and laws of nature and the renaissance
- 2536 Laws of Nature
- 2538 Early modern philosophy of science
- 2542 Hobbes and Spinoza
- 2547 Aristotle's philosophy of science
- 2553 Darwin's Origin
- 2571 Going Molecular
- 2590 Einstein 1905
- 2621 Dispositions and Causal Powers
- 2622 Recent Topics in Philosophy of Science
- 2626 Recent Topics in Philosophy of Physics
- 2630 Cognition & Knowledge
- 2631 Method and Interpretation in Cognitive Neuroscience
- 2632 Philosophy of Neuroscience
- 2633 Philosophy of Cognitive Science
- 2634 Topics in Philosophy of Cognitive Science
- 2635 Central Problems in Systems Neuroscience
- 2640 Consciousness, Emotion, and Neuroscience
- 2653 Models and Modeling in Science
- 2654 19th Century of Science
- 2659 Neurobiology and reduction
- 2660 Causality
- 2666 Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy of Science
- 2663 Perception
- 2667 Philosophy of quantum mechanics
- 2668 Topics in philosophy of biology
- 2669 Realism
- 2671 Models of scientific change
- 2673 Studies in Aristotle
- 2675 Philosophy of space and time
- 2679 Historical perspectives in philosophy of mathematics
- 2682 Theories of confirmation
- 2683 Philosophy of social science
- 2687 Epistemology of Experimental Practices
- 2690 History and philosophy of psychology
- 2497 Teaching practicum
- 2902 Pre-MA directed study
- 2990 Independent study
- 2999 Prospectus Research
- 3000 Dissertation research
- 3902 Advanced directed study
Less Offered Graduate Courses
- 2508 J. J. Gibson and Ecological Theories of Perception and cognition
- 2509 Special Topics in the History of Philosophy of Science
- 2515 Perspectives in History of Science
- 2524 Experimental History and Philosophy of Science
- 2530 Reading seminar in history of science
- 2531 Freud and psychoanalysis
- 2537 Historiography of science
- 2541 Aristotle's Science and Metaphysics
- 2543 Thomas Hobbes: Science, Psychology, Language, Mathematics, Politics and Religion
- 2544 Understanding Aristotle's Teleology
- 2545 Aristotle's biology
- 2555 Aristotle’s concept of natural science
- 2556 Aristotle's matter theory
- 2559 Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
- 2560 The Molecular Revolution in Biology
- 2562 Probability and Statistics
- 2563 History of Medicine
- 2565 The Gene: The Transformation and fragmentation of a Concept
- 2567 William Harvey’s Natural Philosophy
- 2580 Modern Cosmology
- 2585 Evolutionary Theory
- 2586 History, Philosophy and Systematics of Becoming Human: the underpinning of paleoanthropology and the study of human evolution
- 2587 Evolutionary Theory II
- 2599 Historical and Philosophical Issues in Behavioral Genetics
- 2623 Perspectives in Philosophy of Science
- 2624 Philosophy of Classical and Quantum Mechanics
- 2625 Mathematics for Foundations
- 2627 Philosophy of Physics
- 2629 Race: Biology, Psychology, Ethics
- 2641 Experimental Philosophy
- 2642 Determinism
- 2645 Topics in Philosophy of Psychology
- 2648 Science and Philosophy in Aristotle’s Generation of Animals
- 2649 Science & Values
- 2650 Philosophy of Psychiatry
- 2651 History and Philosophy of Economics
- 2652 Recent Topics in the Philosophy of Social Sciences
- 2657 Philosophy of Biology
- 2658 Philosophy of medicine
- 2665 Theory Construction in Psychology
- 2666 Seminar On Inductive Inference
- 2670 Topics in the sociology of knowledge
- 2677 Foundations of Quantum Field Theory
- 2701 Philosophy of Psychoanalysis I
- 2672 Philosophy of biology and medicine
- 2674 Artificial intelligence and the logic of discovery
- 2676 Carnap and Reichenbach
- 2680 Reading seminar in philosophy of science
- 2684 Perceptual theory and experimentation
- 2686 Causality in the social sciences
- 2688 Scientific Explanation
- 2691 Perspectives in History and Philosophy of Science
- 2693 Philosophy of science in the humanities
- 2697 Knowledge Representation
- 2699 Experiment and Scientific Practice
- 2720 Pragmatism
- 2904 MA Thesis Research
Recently Offered Undergraduate Courses
- 0410 Einstein for Everyone: Modern Science and its Surprise
- 0427 Myth and Science: cross-listed with CLASS 0330
- 0430 Galileo and the creation of modern science
- 0437 Darwinism
- 0515 Magic, Medicine, and Science: cross-listed with HIST 0089
- 0517 Thinking about the Environment
- 0605 The Nature of Emotions
- 0610 Causal Reasoning
- 0611 Principles of Scientific Reasoning
- 0612 Mind and Medicine
- 0613 Morality and Medicine
- 0621 Problem Solving: How Science Works
- 0623 Explanations of Humans and Society
- 0630 Science and Pseudoscience
- 0633 Science, Philosophy, and Public Policy
- 1531 Man and the Cosmos in the European Renaissance
- 1600 Philosophy and the Rise of Modern Science: cross-listed with PHIL 1600
- 1602 Race: History, Biology, Psychology, Philosophy
- 1605 Aesthetics and Science
- 1612 Philosophy of 20th Century Physics
- 1616 Artificial Intelligence and the Philosophy of Science
- 1620 Philosophy of Biology: cross-listed with PHIL 1650
- 1627 Living with Technology
- 1653 Seminar in Philosophy of Science
- 1660 Paradox: cross-listed with PHIL 1660
- 1670 Philosophy of Neuroscience: cross-listed with PHIL 1670
- 1690 Topics in Philosophy of Science: cross-listed with PHIL 1690
- 1702 Junior/Senior Seminar for HPS Undergraduate Majors
Less Offered Undergraduate Courses
- 0419 Revolutions and Revolutionaries
- 0437 Darwinsim and its Critics
- 0545 Space-Time-Matter: Antiquity to the 20th Century
- 0546 Space-Time-Matter Writing Practicum: co-requisite: HPS 0545; 1 credit.
- 0547 Space-Time-Matter Writing Practicum: co-requisite HPS 0545; 0 credits.
- 0614 Mind and Medicine Writing Practicum: co-requisite: HPS 0612; offered Fall Term; 1 credit.
- 0615 Mind and Medicine Writing Practicum: co-requisite: HPS 0612; 0 credits.
- 0620 Science and Religion: cross-listed with PHIL 0840; UHC
- 0624 Explanations of Humans and Society Writing Practicum: co-requisite: HPS 0623; 1 credit.
- 0625 Explanations of Humans and Society Writing Practicum: co-requisite: HPS 0623; 0 credits.
- 0626 Development of Modern Biology
- 0634 Science, Philosophy, and Public Policy Writing Practicum: co-requisite: HPS 0633; 0 credits.
- 0635 Science, Philosophy, and Public Policy Writing Practicum: co-requisite: HPS 0633; 1 credit.
- 1407 Einstein
- 1410 Change, Progress, and Ideology
- 1502 Astrology and Witchcraft
- 1508 Classics in the History of Science
- 1600 Philosophy and the Rise of Modern Science: cross-listed with PHIL 1600
- 1610 Philosophy of Anthropology: cross-listed with PHIL 1630, ANTH 1710
- 1615 Philosophy of Social Science
- 1625 Philosophy of Medicine
- 1682 Freedom and Determinism
- 1703 Writing Workshop for HPS Undergraduate Majors
- 1800 Special Topics in History and Philosophy of Science
- 1901 Independent Study: registration by permission from department only; may be taken as UHC; variable credits 1-6.