Course Index
Course Name
Instructor
Introduction to the history, philosophy, and sociology of science, technology, the environment, and medicine. Instruction and practice in formal writing.
Introduction to the history, philosophy, and sociology of science, technology, the environment, and medicine. Instruction and practice in formal writing.
Introduction to the history, philosophy, and sociology of science, technology, the environment, and medicine. Instruction and practice in formal writing.
Introduction to the history, philosophy, and sociology of science, technology, the environment, and medicine. Instruction and practice in formal writing.
Theories of knowledge, values, and reality. Topics such as objectivity, relativism and cultural diversity, moral responsibility, aesthetic values, the self, existence of God, free will, minds and machines.
Interdisciplinary study of the relationship between science and society, public engagement with science and technology, public expressions of scientific knowledge, and science in culture. Emphasis on scholarship in the social sciences.
Interdisciplinary study of technology and innovation in relation to science and/or medicine.
Interdisciplinary study of sex, gender, and sexuality in relation to science and/or medicine. Emphasis on scholarship and methodologies from the arts and humanities.
Explores the motivations and methodologies of scientific endeavors and the relationships between science and other major human institutions such as religion, politics, government, and the economy. Emphasis on scholarship and methodologies from the social sciences.
Examination of the desirability of technology, its social forms, and its alternatives. Conventional productivist, ecological progressive, and radical humanist outlooks (cross-listed with PHL 355).
Termination of treatment, truth-telling, informed consent, human experimentation, reproductive issues, allocation of scarce resources, justice and the health care system.
Examination of the desirability of technology, its social forms, and its alternatives. Conventional productivist, ecological progressive, and radical humanist outlooks (cross-listed with LB 355).
Conflicting views about science and values. Such topics as scientific methodology; the objectivity and value neutrality of science; the presuppositions, goals, and limits of science; and science and decision making.
Current and future roles of biotechnology in agriculture: scientific basis, applications. Environmental, social, and ethical concerns (cross-listed with PHL 486).
Selected problems in the study of science and technology as human activities, using philosophical, historical, literary, social science or interdisciplinary perspectives or methods. Development and defense of thesis paper or project.
Selected problems in the study of science and technology as human activities, using philosophical, historical, literary, social science or interdisciplinary perspectives or methods. Development and defense of thesis paper or project.
Selected problems in the study of science and technology as human activities, using philosophical, historical, literary, social science or interdisciplinary perspectives or methods. Development and defense of thesis paper or project.
Selected problems in the study of science and technology as human activities, using philosophical, historical, literary, social science or interdisciplinary perspectives or methods. Development and defense of thesis paper or project.
Selected problems in the study of science and technology as human activities, using philosophical, historical, literary, social science or interdisciplinary perspectives or methods. Development and defense of thesis paper or project.
Structure of scientific theories and explanation. Causation, prediction, induction, confirmation, discovery, and scientific progress.
Current and future roles of biotechnology in agriculture: scientific basis, applications. Environmental, social, and ethical concerns (cross-listed with HRT 486).
Introduction to the field of neuroethics and the responsible application of advances in neuroscience research.
Ethical, political, theoretical, and methodological issues in medicine and health care.
Selected topics in the philosophy of the special sciences, in the metatheory of science, and in the social studies of science.