Class Notes for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at University of Toronto St. George

HPS110_11 Thursday, November 29, 2018 2:08 PM Part III: Living Well: Resilience The Harvard Grant Study What it means to lead a good life, how is it related to happiness Study people likely to succeed and gather data on th...

HPS110_10 Thursday, November 22, 2018 2:34 PM Part III: Living Well Happiness Happiness: The Issue Very importantinfluential Alternative views Do happy people have motivation Is being happy ignorance and selfishness becaus...

HPS110_9 Thursday, November 15, 2018 2:08 PM Part II: Becoming Good Altruism - Helping The Issue: Helping Average, normal people helping someone in an emergency situation Doing the right thing, how we can do better Big exa...

HPS110_8 Thursday, November 1, 2018 2:19 PM Part II: Becoming Good Empathy Two major current theories De Waal Baron-Cahen Empathy is our moral sentiments The theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith Our senses alone are no...

Lecture11:Worldviews:MetaphysicalComponents Characterizing a worldview What is it that makes one worldview different from another? o There seems to be some essential components to every worldview o Answer: a worldview is c...

Lecture 10: Contemporary Worldview Contemporary Worldview When we say contemporary worldview, we mean history of science since the 1920s Disciplines, Physics, General Relativity, Cosmology, Chemistry, Genetics, Biology, Ne...

Lecture9:NewtonianWorldview Newtonian Myths There were 5 major Newtonian science (NS) myths; 1. NS liberated itself from religion theology was incorporated into the Newtonian mosaic at least until the ...

Lecture8:CartesianWorldview Cartesian Mosaic Cartesian natural philosophy (physics) and the theories that came with it became accepted only towards the end of the 17th century In order for cartesian theor...

HSP110_7 Thursday, October 25, 2018 2:09 PM Part II: Becoming Good Need mother love Empathy Helping other people Attachment How do we become capable of love? Mother love Attachment The...

Lecture7:Aristotelian-MedievalWorldview Aristotelian-Medieval (AM) Mosaic Why study the AM mosaic because among other things, they teach us that there can be genuine science with a different scientific method ...

HPS110_6 Thursday, October 11, 2018 2:07 PM Breaking Bad: Aggression: Evolutionary Explanations Learned or innate Innate? Natural born killers Could help address political concerns Violence, aggression, war Malleability of...

find more resources at oneclass.com Lecture5:ScientificProgress Questions: 1. Do our best scientific theories correctly describe the nature of the external world 2. Does science actually progress towards the truth? Scienti...

Lecture 6:ScienceandNon-Science Questions: 1. What is the difference between science and non-science 2. What are the characteristics of a scientific theory 3. What are the characteristics of the process of scientif...

HPS110_5 Thursday, October 4, 2018 2:12 PM Breaking Bad: Aggression Video: 2001: A Space Odyssey The Dawn of Man Is the killing instinct fundamental in humans? A Clockwork Orange also explores this Is this trait learned o...

Lecture 3: Scientific Method Questions 1. How do we decide which theories should become accepted? 2. how scientific communities evaluate theories 3. what specific criteria should a theory satisfy to become accepted? 4. Is ...

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