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136-417 Science in the Classical World. | |
Credit Points | 16.7 4th year |
Coordinator | Dr Keith Hutchison |
Prerequisites | Normal prerequisites for honours or postgraduate enrolment |
Semester | 2 |
Contact | One 2-hour seminar per week |
Subject Description | Selected issues, deemed central to the history of science and philosophy in the ancient Greek (and Roman) world, are studied at a moderately advanced level, via discussion of selected primary and secondary texts. Though the exact content of the unit is to vary from year to year, typical topics might be: The contrast between presocratic philosophy and its predecessors. Plato's hostility to empiricism. Aristotle's naturalism. Euclid and the axiomatic method. |
Assessment | Class presentation leading to 5,000 words of written work; class test. |
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