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This course serves to provide an understanding both of science as an intellectual endeavor and of the contemporary world, a world profoundly and increasingly shaped by science. The course directly addresses a number of key questions. What is science? What is the nature of scientific knowledge? What is the relationship between scientific knowledge and other kinds of knowledge or belief, between science and technology, between science and power? Are scientists morally responsible for the applications and effects of their scientific research? Through a diversity of writings, the course will endeavor to provide conceptual tools and theories for answering these questions, and thereby also contribute to the development of a critical understanding of modern society.
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