The course provides a study of the thing we call "science”, together with its nature and methodology. The topics cover the meaning of science, reality, the nature of scientific observations, scientific theories and their discovery and formation, scientific explanations and predictions, the problem of induction, scientific rationality, the nature of scientific knowledge, concepts of truth, hypothesis testing, hypothesis confirmation, hypothesis falsification, logic of scientific method, and scientific progress.
- Teacher: Jochen Amrehn