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How has scientific knowledge developed over time? Have some changes in scientific theory constituted scientific revolutions? In this course, students will analyze examples of scientific developments ranging from antiquity to modernity. Students will evaluate whether the concept of a "revolution" aptly describes past processes of theory change, and examine what drove natural philosophers and scientists to espouse one scientific theory over another. Specific topics may be drawn from the history and philosophy of chemistry, cosmology, evolutionary biology, geology, and physics.

Open Enrolment:

July 30th - Sept 16th

Intelligence is the capacity to learn, understand, reason, act, and manage other mental functions. This course will examine intelligence from an interdisciplinary perspective, exploring what kinds of mental phenomena exist (from rudimentary intentionality exhibited by single-cell organisms to complex human cognition) and how various kinds of minds are physically realized and environmentally situated. One major focus will be human intelligence, especially in the context of linguistic communication, logico-mathematical reasoning, problem solving, decision-making, and creativity. But we will also examine non-human animal minds and artificial intelligence, with a special focus on recent developments in machine learning and artificial neural network design.