PHIL453

Philosophy of Science II

Prerequisite: Students must have completed a minium of two philosophy courses. A comprehensive survey of developments in the main problems of the philosophy of science from logical positivism to the present. The nature of theories, models, laws, and counterfactuals, testing, inductive logic, and confirmation theory, experimental methodology, measurement, explanation, concept formation, growth of scientific knowledge, and scientific realism.

Past Semesters

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During the Spring 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters, students could choose to take some of their courses pass-fail mid-semester which skews grade data aggregated across multiple semesters.

Average GPA of 3.33 between 51 students*

PHIL453 Grade Distribution+-051015202530354045505560% of studentsABCDFWother
A-: 25.49%
A: 27.45%
A+: 5.88%
B-: 3.92%
B: 11.76%
B+: 11.76%
D-: 1.96%
F: 3.92%
W: 1.96%
other: 5.88%
* "W"s are considered to be 0.0 quality points. "Other" grades are not factored into GPA calculation. Grade data not guaranteed to be correct.