Course Spotlight: PHILOS 2650 – Intro to Philosophy of Science

Offered in Spring 2025
Instructor: Jason DeWitt
Tues/Thurs, 9:35am–10:55am
GE: Number, Nature, Mind Theme
3 credit hours

Are you interested in science and how it works? Many foundational questions about science are addressed in philosophy. This course is an introduction to such questions and the attempts scientists and philosophers have made at answering them. What is science, and how does it differ from pseudoscience and other non-scientific forms of enquiry? How can scientists know about what they have not observed? Do the unobservable things posited by our best scientific theories really exist? How should we understand scientific explanation? Can all of science be reduced to just the laws of physics? What even is a law of physics? These are just some of the questions about the nature of science that will be covered in this course.