For a more thorough exposition of the material please refer to our introductory HPS textbook at http://hakobsandbox.openetext.utoront....


Why would anyone study history and philosophy of science (HPS)? What are some of the key questions addressed by HPS?

00:30 Popular Science Mythology
07:12 Why HPS?
07:44 What is History of Science?
09:40 Scientific Mosaic
___ 09:42 Contemporary Scientific Mosaic
___ 10:37 Natural, Social, and Formal Science
___ 11:21 Theory, Scientific Mosaic, Scientific Change
___ 13:00 Scientific Mosaic circa 1765
___ 17:23 Scientific Mosaic circa 1515
18:26 Example of Scientific Change: Theories of Free Fall
___ 18:53 Free Fall in Newtonian Physics
___ 19:27 Free Fall in Aristotelian Physics
___ 23:42 Free Fall in General Relativity
28:36 Questions of History of Science
30:47 Questions of Philosophy of Science

You can access all the slideshows here https://1drv.ms/f/s!Ah0oClIIIQL82HACQ...

The course is funded by University of Toronto, Online Learning Strategies (http://onlinelearning.utoronto.ca/), eCampusOntario (https://www.ecampusontario.ca/) and the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (http://www.hps.utoronto.ca/)

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