HPS100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Scientific Progress, Theology Proper, Inductive Reasoning
13 Dec 2017
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Conclusion to study history and philosophy of science together to avoid ignorance. An1: intellectual biographies of great scientists (galileo, copernicus, newton, einstein) An2: history of scientific institutions (university, organization, society) We don"t study the above 2 but the combination. The real essence of science is the outcome=theories. We study the changes in the mosaic of accepted theories. An: outline of contemporary scientific mosaic (natural science + social science + formal science: quantum physics; general relativity; cosmology (big bang); chemistry; Theory: a set of propositions that attempting to describe something. Scientific mosaic: a set of all accepted theories. Scientific change: any change in the scientific mosaic (we use mosaic to define change) Ar: the mosaic of theory changes with time. Study of calculus remains the same; everything else is different. 2 definition of theology (part of curriculum studied as a science course) Theology proper (classic) the study of god and his attributes in his words.
