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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
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PHIL 248 - Introduction to Scientific Reasoning (3)


The study of scientific reasoning. Among the central issues are: deductive reasoning; inductive reasoning; the justification of inductive inferences; examples of inductive reasoning, such as statistical inferences with respect to both correlation and causal hypotheses; the nature of science and its evolution; analysis of the roles that models, predictions and evidence play in justifying scientific theories.

Grading: Graded/Satisfactory Unsatisfactory/Audit
Course ID: 56019
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Attributes: Arts and Humanities (GEP), Arts and Humanities (GFR)



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