Science and Nature in the Modern Period
HSTC4000.06X/Y
This class examines the history and culture of science in the modern and postmodern world, attempting to come to terms with contemporary science and technology, the place of “scientific method” and natural law, the rise of globalized “technoscience” and a scientific way of life.
DESCRIPTION
This class will begin with the Romantic reaction to Newton, and will move on to explore themes in the “historicisation” of nature culminating in a Darwinian world-view, the triumph of chance and relativity, and the constructions of notions of gender and human nature in modern biology and psychology, issues of “big science”, indeterminancy and technology. These issues will be studied within the broader cultural and philosophical transformations of the modern period. The class is open to both arts and humanities students and students in the sciences.
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Lecture
TR 10:05 - 11:25
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