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PHIL 206JPhilosophy of Science

Faculty
Arts
Offered
Winter
Credit
0.5
Last listed
1994–95

No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1978–79 to 1994–95 (before that, 1971–72 to 1977–78 used the number for Special Problems in the Philosophy of Nature); the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.

A philosophical study of the approaches to the material world used by contemporary physical science. The nature and value of the experimental method in the writings of scientists past and present will be examined.

As printed in the 1978–79 to 1994–95 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original. Later calendars (1995–96 on) aren’t on uwloo.

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In the scanned calendars

How it read in each calendar from 1971–72 to 1994–95, 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.

1978–79 to 1994–95 9 calendars

A philosophical study of the approaches to the material world used by contemporary physical science. The nature and value of the experimental method in the writings of scientists past and present will be examined.

Offered Winter · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit

* Listed that year without a description, or as not offered.

1971–72 to 1977–78 7 calendars

Another title: Special Problems in the Philosophy of Nature, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).

This course will take up various key topics with respect to the constitution and operation of the natural universe. Issues such as the definition of change, space and place, time, purpose in nature, the infinity of the universe, anti-matter, action-at-a-distance, etc., will be discussed. No prerequisite. 3 hours, half course, Winter term.

* Listed that year without a description, or as not offered.