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PHI 152 - Scientific Reasoning

Semester Hours: 3
Periodically
This course presents a systematic approach to scientific reasoning and thinking about scientific reasoning. Topics to be covered include: the fundamental ideas of reasoning (support, evidence, argument); the nature of scientific theories and the evidence that grounds scientific theories; casual and statistical reasoning, and the relation of the two; and statistical reasoning and decision making. Students will be steadily exercised on a variety of arguments from real contexts. Particular attention is paid to science as it is presented for nonspecialist audiences, as for instance in science journalism.


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Summer Session I 2026

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Fall 2026



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