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Sep 23, 2024
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2011-2012 HillBook (Class of 2015) [ARCHIVED HILL BOOK]
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PHY 193 - Science and BeliefThree Credits Fall and Spring Semesters
History of the relation between science and religion from Copernicus to David Hume: Catholic and Protestant reactions to the Copernican theory; the Galileo affair; rationalism and empiricism; Puritanism and science; the Enlightenment critique of religion; and the nature of belief in science and the role of “reason” in religion. Fulfills the General Education Natural Scientific Inquiry requirement.
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