Science and Culture I: The Discourses of Modernity

3 credits · Undergraduate

This class engages one of the main questions of our modern world: what is science and how does it relate to the rest of modernity? It explores the rise of a “scientific” world view, the clashes over methodologies, the disputed meanings of technology and the oppositions between the social/cultural and the natural, introducing recent crises of rationality and its defence. CALENDAR NOTES: CTMP 3001.03 & CTMP 3002.03 must normally be taken in the same academic year to fulfill the requirements of the CTMP Combined Honours degree. CROSSLISTED: HSTC 3031.03 EXCLUSIONS: CTMP 3000.06/HSTC 3030.06 FORMATS: Lecture | Tutorial