PHIL 105JGeneral Science of Nature
- Faculty
- Arts
- Last listed
- 1971–72
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1971–72 to 1971–72 (before that, 1968–69 to 1969–70 used the number for Philosophy of Nature); the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
An examination through conceptual analysis and historical reference of the explanatory principles underlying the material world. Various main doctrines (e.g. pythagoreanism, atomism, hylomorphism) will be compared and contrasted. Germane discoveries in physics (espically the work of Planck, Einstein, de Broglie, Heisenberg) and chemistry will be brought in. No Prerequisite. 3 hours, half course, Fall term.
As printed in the 1971–72 calendar, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
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In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1968–69 to 1971–72, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1971–72 1 calendar
An examination through conceptual analysis and historical reference of the explanatory principles underlying the material world. Various main doctrines (e.g. pythagoreanism, atomism, hylomorphism) will be compared and contrasted. Germane discoveries in physics (espically the work of Planck, Einstein, de Broglie, Heisenberg) and chemistry will be brought in. No Prerequisite. 3 hours, half course, Fall term.
Not in the 1970–71 calendar.
1968–69 to 1969–70 2 calendars
Another title: Philosophy of Nature, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).
A general introduction to the science of nature. A study of the principles of natural mobile being which is the subject of natural science, and a study of place and time which are measures extrinsic to mobile being, place and time. 3 hours.