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HPS History and Philosophy CoursesHPS200Y1
The culture of the natural sciences, explored through revolutionary bursts of innovation that propelled science in new and sometimes unexpected directions. Although some familiarity with scientific concepts is helpful, the course is designed for students in both the sciences and the humanities. HPS201H1
Technology and its place in our culture from Antiquity to the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution. Relations between technology and science, religion, the arts, social institutions, and political beliefs. HPS202H1
A survey of technical change and its social implications from the Industrial Revolution to the present. HPS250H1
This course critically examines several influential models of science and ideas of objectivity, rationality, theory change, revolution in science and the growth of scientific knowledge. (A suitable pre-cursor to PHL355H1) HPS299Y1
HPS300H/Y1
TBA HPS306H1
An examination of the tools of war in the Western world from the Middle Ages to World War II, including not only weapons but the means of transportation, communication, and organization used in violent conflict. The effects of war on the development of science and technology. HPS307H1
The history of human control of various sources of energy, including technical developments, scientific theories, and impact on culture and society. Recent debates on fossil fuel and nuclear power examined in historical context. HPS311H1
Topics in the history of physics from antiquity to the 20th century, including Aristotelian physics, Galileo, Descartes, electromagnestism, thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, relativity, quantum physics, and particle physics. The development of theories in their intellectual and cultural contexts. HPS312H1
The emergence of the modern discipline of chemistry from 1785 to 1939. Seminar discussions focus on key papers of important Historical analysis of the interplay between theory and practice, and of the dynamics of scientific communities HPS314Y1
A survey of medical theory and practice from Antiquity to the modern welfare state, with emphasis on social, cultural and political setting. HPS323H1
A close examination of the theory advanced in Darwin’s Origin of Species, including historical investigation of its development in European thought in general and in Darwin’s mind in particular, and the logic and strategy of Darwin’s argument. Consideration of the effect of evolutionary ideas on science, religion and social thought in the 19th and 20th centuries, including eugenics, the Scopes trial and sociobiology. HPS324H1
Historical examination of the interactions of science (both as body of knowledge and as enterprise) with ideological, political and social issues. The impact of science; attacks on and critiques of scientific expertise as background to contemporary conflicts. Subjects may vary according to students’ interests. HPS326H1
From its origins in the Renaissance, modern science has developed in the context of European religious beliefs and institutions. Although cases of conflict like Galileo or the "Monkey Trial" are famous, more common are cases of scientists like Newton or Faraday whose religious convictions were crucial to their scientific success. HPS328H1
The environmental movement has been driven by a sense of impending disaster. This course asks how such appeals function on a socio-political level, while also investigating the complex relationship between environmental science and environmental movements. Using methods from science studies, we ask what tools are required for ecologically responsible action. HPS333H1
Classic episodes from the history of physiology, cell theory, embryology, genetics, and molecular biology, including the work of Aristotle, Galen, Harvey, Descartes, Roux, Mendel, Morgan, Watson and Crick. HPS350H1
A philosophical examination of a cluster of issues concerning the phenomenon of revolution in the natural sciences. Discussion will focus on the suggestion that revolutionary ferment is seeded by novelty (new theory, set of theorems, device, experimental practice, etc.), which will be assessed again: the background of a few canonical historical episodes. PHL355H1
(See "Philosophy") HPS360H1
Conceptions of universe since 1800 with attention to observational sources of changing ideas. History of large telescopes, stellar spectroscopy and radio astronomy. Relativistic conceptions of space and time, models of stellar evolution, discovery of extra-galactic nebulae, Hubble red-shift and microwave background radiation. Philosophical and religious implications are examined. HPS390H1
A survey of ancient, medieval, and early modern mathematics with emphasis on historical issues. (Offered in alternate years) HPS391H1
A survey of the development of mathematics from 1700 to the present with emphasis on historical issues. (Offered in alternate years) HPS410H1
An historical survey from pre-Greek to the present. Various themes are emphasized year to year, to show mathematics as changing and evolving. A student could expect to gain an historical overview as well as a sense of the unity of the mathematical sciences. HPS412H1
Advanced level survey of biological science from ancient Greece to the 20th century emphasizing primary sources analyses. HPS427H1
The development of chemistry from the Chemical Revolution of Lavoisier to the periodic table of Mendeleev: electro-chemistry, the rise of organic chemistry, classification, valency, structural chemistry. HPS430H1
An advanced survey of the history of technology from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. HIS431H1
An advanced survey of the history of technology from the Industrial Revolution to modern times. HPS495Y1
TBA HPS496H1/497H1
TBA HPS498H1/499H1
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