2014-2015 Catalog

HIPS 17300-17400-17402-17501-17502-17503. Science, Culture, and Society in Western Civilization I-II-II-III-IV-III.

This group of courses consists of two three-quarter sequences: HIPS 17300-17400-17501 or 17502, and HIPS 17400-17402-17503 or 17502. Taking these courses in sequence is recommended but not required. Each sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. Each three-quarter sequence focuses on the origins and development of science in the West. Our aim is to trace the evolution of the biological, psychological, natural, and mathematical sciences as they emerge from the cultural and social matrix of their periods and, in turn, affect culture and society.

HIPS 20300. Scientific/Technological Change. 100 Units.

Equivalent Course(s): CHSS 42300

HIPS 20700. Elementary Logic. 100 Units.

Open to college and grad students. Course not for field credit. An introduction to the techniques of modern logic. These include the representation of arguments in symbolic notation, and the systematic manipulation of these representations in order to show the validity of arguments. Regular homework assignments, in class test and final examination. No prerequisites.

Instructor(s): M. Kremer     Terms Offered: Autumn
Note(s): Course not for field credit.
Equivalent Course(s): PHIL 20100,CHSS 33500,PHIL 30000

HIPS 20800. Evolutionary Processes. 100 Units.

Terms Offered: Autumn
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor
Note(s): This course does not meet requirements for the biological sciences major.

HIPS 21100. The Practice of Anthropology: Celebrity and Science in Paleoanthropology. 100 Units.

This seminar explores the balance among research, "showbiz" big business, and politics in the careers of Louis, Mary, and Richard Leakey; Alan Walker; Donald Johanson; Jane Goodall; Dian Fossey; and Biruté Galdikas. Information is gathered from films, taped interviews, autobiographies, biographies, pop publications, instructor's anecdotes, and samples of scientific writings.

Instructor(s): R. Tuttle     Terms Offered: Not offered 2014-15; will be offered 2015-16
Equivalent Course(s): ANTH 21406,ANTH 38300

HIPS 21200. Big Science and the Birth of the National Security State. 100 Units.

This course examines the mutual creation of big science and the American national security state during the Manhattan Project. It presents the atomic bomb project as the center of a new orchestration of scientific, industrial, military, and political institutions in everyday American life. Exploring the linkages between military technoscience, nation-building, and concepts of security and international order, we interrogate one of the foundation structures of the modern world system.

Instructor(s): J. Masco     Terms Offered: Not offered 2014-15; will be offered 2015-16
Equivalent Course(s): ANTH 22400,ANTH 34900

HIPS 21301. The Anthropology of Science. 100 Units.

Reading key works in the philosophy of science, as well as ethnographic studies of scientific practices and objects, this course introduces contemporary science studies. We interrogate how technoscientific "facts" are produced, discussing the transformations in social order produced by new scientific knowledge. Possible topics include the human genome project, biodiversity, and the digital revolution.

Instructor(s): J. Masco     Terms Offered: Not offered 2014-15; will be offered 2015-16
Equivalent Course(s): ANTH 22105,ANTH 32300

HIPS 21400. Intro To Medical Ethics. 100 Units.

Equivalent Course(s): BIOS 29281

HIPS 21911. Medical Ethics: Who Decides and on What Basis? 100 Units.

Decisions about medical treatment take place in the context of changing health care systems, changing ideas about rights and obligations, and among doctors and patients who have diverse religious and cultural backgrounds. By means of historical, philosophical, and medical readings, this course examines such issues as paternalism, autonomy, the commodification of the body, and the enhancement of mental and/or physical characteristics. (A)

Instructor(s): D. Brudney, Staff     Terms Offered: Not offered in 2014-15; will be offered in 2015-16
Prerequisite(s): Third- or fourth-year standing
Note(s): This course does not meet requirements for the biological science major.
Equivalent Course(s): BPRO 22610,BIOS 29313,PHIL 21610

HIPS 22000. Introduction to the Philosophy of Science. 100 Units.

We will begin by trying to explicate the manner in which science is a rational response to observational facts. This will involve a discussion of inductivism, Popper’s deductivism, Lakatos and Kuhn.  After this, we will briefly survey some other important topics in the philosophy of science, including underdetermination, theories of evidence, Bayesianism, the problem of induction, explanation, and laws of nature. (B)

Instructor(s): K. Davey     Terms Offered: Autumn

HIPS 22300. Philosophy of Social Science. 100 Units.

Instructor(s): W. Wimsatt     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): CHSS 37700,PHIL 32900,PHIL 22900

HIPS 22401. Darwinian Health. 100 Units.

This course will use an evolutionary, rather than clinical, approach to understanding why we get sick. In particular, we will consider how health issues such as menstruation, senescence, pregnancy sickness, menopause, and diseases can be considered adaptations rather than pathologies. We will also discuss how our rapidly changing environments can reduce the benefits of these adaptations.

Instructor(s): J. Mateo     Terms Offered: Winter
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor only.
Note(s): Not offered 2014-15
Equivalent Course(s): CHDV 21500,GNSE 21500

HIPS 22601. Medicine and Society in Twentieth-Century China. 100 Units.

This course is a survey of historical and anthropological approaches to medical knowledge and practice in twentieth-century China. Materials cover early modernizing debates, medicine and the state, Maoist public health, traditional Chinese medicine, and health and medicine in popular culture.

Instructor(s): J. Farquhar     Terms Offered: Not offered 2014-15; will be offered 2015-16
Equivalent Course(s): ANTH 23600,ANTH 33610

HIPS 22700. Philosophical Problems in the Biological Sciences. 100 Units.

Equivalent Course(s): CHSS 37600,PHIL 32700,EVOL 32700

HIPS 23000. The Organization of Knowledge. 100 Units.

This course explores several structures of knowledge that students may have encountered in their core and specialized education, with the goal of enabling students to identify and explore the implications of these different structures. We ask whether all knowledge is relative, and if so, to what? When things are structured differently, does that mean that knowledge is lost? Or are there several diverse ways of structuring knowledge, each of which may be viable? We read a wide range of classical and modern thinkers in various disciplines.

Instructor(s): W. Sterner     Terms Offered: Spring
Prerequisite(s): Third- or fourth-year standing

HIPS 23500. Comparative Primate Morphology. 200 Units.

This course covers functional morphology of locomotor, alimentary, and reproductive systems in primates. Dissections are performed on monkeys and apes.

Instructor(s): R. Tuttle     Terms Offered: Not offered 2014-15; will be offered 2015-16
Equivalent Course(s): ANTH 28300,ANTH 38200,EVOL 38200

HIPS 23600. Classical Readings in Anthropology: History and Theory of Human Evolution. 100 Units.

This course is a seminar on racial, sexual, and class bias in the classic theoretic writings, autobiographies, and biographies of Darwin, Huxley, Haeckel, Keith, Osborn, Jones, Gregory, Morton, Broom, Black, Dart, Weidenreich, Robinson, Leakey, LeGros-Clark, Schultz, Straus, Hooton, Washburn, Coon, Dobzhansky, Simpson, and Gould.

Instructor(s): R. Tuttle     Terms Offered: Not offered 2014-15; will be offered 2015-16
Equivalent Course(s): ANTH 21102,ANTH 38400,EVOL 38400

HIPS 23700. Apes and Human Evolution. 100 Units.

Instructor(s): R. Tuttle     Terms Offered: Spring
Note(s): BIOS 23241 recommended.

HIPS 23900. Biological and Cultural Evolution. 100 Units.

Instructor(s): W. Wimsatt, S. Mufwene     Terms Offered: Winter
Prerequisite(s): Third- or fourth-year standing, or consent of instructor required; core background in genetics and evolution recommended
Note(s): This course does not meet requirements for the biological sciences major.

HIPS 24000. Evolution of the Hominoidea. 200 Units.

This course is a detailed consideration of the fossil record and the phylogeny of Hominidae and collateral taxa of the Hominidea that is based upon studies of casts and comparative primate osteology.

Instructor(s): R. Tuttle     Terms Offered: Winter
Prerequisite(s): Third- or fourth-year standing and consent of instructor
Equivalent Course(s): ANTH 28100,ANTH 38100,EVOL 38100

HIPS 24300. Foucault and The History of Sexuality. 100 Units.

This course centers on a close reading of the first volume of Michel Foucault’s The History of Sexuality, with some attention to his writings on the history of ancient conceptualizations of sex. How should a history of sexuality take into account scientific theories, social relations of power, and different experiences of the self? We discuss the contrasting descriptions and conceptions of sexual behavior before and after the emergence of a science of sexuality. Other writers influenced by and critical of Foucault are also discussed. (A)

Instructor(s): A. Davidson     Terms Offered: Autumn
Note(s): One prior philosophy course is strongly recommended.
Equivalent Course(s): PHIL 24800,CMLT 25001,FNDL 22001,GNSE 23100

HIPS 24800. Gender and History and Science Technology and Medicine. 100 Units.

Instructor(s): A. Winter     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 25100,HIST 35100,CHSS 45100

HIPS 25107. Sciences of Mind and the Moving Image. 100 Units.

This course will examine the relationship between moving images, particularly motion-picture films, and the human sciences broadly construed, from the early days of cinema to the advent of fMRI. It will use primary source documents alongside screenings to allow students to study what the moving image meant to researchers wishing to develop knowledge of mind and behavior—what they thought film could do that still photography, and unmediated human observation, could not. The kinds of motion pictures we will study will vary widely, from infant development studies to psychiatric films, from documentaries to research films, and from films made by scientists or clinicians as part of their laboratory or therapeutic work, to experimental films made by seasoned film-makers. We will explore how people used the recordings they made, in their own studies, in communications with other scientists, and for didactic and other purposes. We will also discuss how researchers' claims about mental processes—perception, memory, consciousness, and interpersonal influence—drew on their understandings of particular technologies.

Instructor(s): A. Winter     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): CHSS 35107,HIST 25107,HIST 35107

HIPS 25203. Media Ecology: Embodiment and Software. 100 Units.

Media ecology examines how the structure and content of our media environments—online and offline, in words, images, sounds, and textures—affect human perception, understanding, feeling, and value; or alternatively, media ecology investigates the massive and dynamic interrelation of processes and objects, beings and things, patterns and matter. At stake are issues about agency—human or material—and about determinism—how does society or culture interact with or shape its technologies, or vice versa? This course investigates theories of media ecology by exploring systems of meanings that humans embody (cultural, social, ecological) in conjunction with the emerging field of software studies about the cultural, political, social, and aesthetic impacts of software (e.g., code, interaction, interface). In our actual and virtual environments, how do we understand performing our multiple human embodiments in relation to other bodies (organism or machine) in pursuit of social or political goals?

Instructor(s): M. Browning     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): HUMA 25202,LLSO 27801,CMST 25204,TAPS 28452

HIPS 25204. Posthuman Condition: Robots, Internet, Mind. 100 Units.

How have we become posthuman—if we are no longer solely "human"? This course investigates cultural logics of how one of our more recent machines—the digital computer—provides reciprocal models between people and their machines, such as robots, laptops, smart phones, the internet. How do our capabilities for communication inform our databases and social networks, and likewise, how do emergent machine functionalities influence our technogenesis as we learn not only to think and do things with digital media, but also to learn with them? In relation to myths, games, rituals, and dreams of learning, we examine kinesthetic as well as inter- and intra-personal intelligences in human embodiment and their digital replication, with a focus less on information than on meaning and ideologies.

Instructor(s): M. Browning     Terms Offered: Autumn 2014
Equivalent Course(s): HUMA 25204

HIPS 25307. History and Historiography of Science. 100 Units.

Science poses particular problems of historical understanding because it claims to reveal truths independent of human culture and historical change. Yet scholars have argued for decades that both the enterprise of science and, indeed, scientific knowledge itself can be accounted for historically. Since World War II a thriving discipline has arisen to pursue this objective. It has transformed our understanding of such central topics as the practice of experiment, the social meaning of nature, and the constitution of scientific authority. History and Historiography of Science offers an opportunity to see how historians of science have achieved this. We will read both canonical works and new research, in order to understand how they practice their craft of bringing history to bear on what seems the most unhistorical of subjects.

Instructor(s): A. Johns     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): CHSS 35307,HIST 25307,HIST 35307

HIPS 25311. Medicine and Society in America. 100 Units.

The course provides a social-historical backdrop to central questions in American medicine from the early colonial period to the present day. Topics covered include epidemics in the early colonies; frontier medicine and alternative healers; urbanization, hygiene, and the state; race, empire, and medicine; sexual health and reproductive rights; the politics of addiction; and the rise of biomedicine, genetics, and genomics, among others. Students will gain from this course both an understanding of major trends and transformations in American medicine, as well as a more nuanced feel for present-day debates about healthcare rights and policies in America. Requirements will include short weekly responses to class readings and a final paper of six to eight pages.

Instructor(s): M. Rossi     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 25311

HIPS 25408. The History of Suggestion. 100 Units.

This course examines the history of studies of the nature of what has commonly become known as suggestion--subtle influences over personal and group behavior that are thought to affect us outside our conscious awareness or control. The idea of an unconscious influence of this kind has deep roots, but it was only in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that it became a major focus of research, controversy and reflection. The course will examine the development and significance of characterizations of suggestion and related concepts of subtle influence in medicine, advertising, and various fields in the sciences. Course materials will include primary sources in those areas, literary materials, and film.

Instructor(s): A. Winter     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): CHSS 35408,HIST 25408,HIST 35408

HIPS 25506. Science and Aesthetics in the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries. 100 Units.

One can distinguish four ways in which science and aesthetics are related during the last three centuries. First, science has been the subject of artistic effort in painting and photography and in poetry and novels (e.g., in Goethe’s poetry or in H. G. Wells’s Island of Doctor Moreau). Second, science has been used to explain aesthetic effects (e.g., Helmholtz’s work on the way painters achieve visual effects or musicians achieve tonal effects). Third, aesthetic means have been used to convey scientific conceptions (e.g., through illustrations in scientific volumes or through aesthetically affective and effective writing). Finally philosophers have stepped back to consider the relationship between scientific knowing and aesthetic comprehension (e.g., Kant and Bas van Fraassen). In this course, we will consider these four modes of relationship. The first part of the quarter will be devoted to Kant, reading carefully his third critique; then we will turn to Goethe and Helmholtz, both feeling the impact of Kant, and to Wells, a student of T. H. Huxley. We then consider more contemporary modes expressive of the relationship, especially the role of illustrations in science and the work of contemporary philosophers like Fraassen.

Instructor(s): R. Richards     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 25506,HIST 35506,CHSS 35506,PHIL 24301,PHIL 34301

HIPS 25600. History of Statistics. 100 Units.

This course covers topics in the history of statistics, from the eleventh century to the middle of the twentieth century. We focus on the period from 1650 to 1950, with an emphasis on the mathematical developments in the theory of probability and how they came to be used in the sciences. Our goals are both to quantify uncertainty in observational data and to develop a conceptual framework for scientific theories. This course includes broad views of the development of the subject and closer looks at specific people and investigations, including reanalyses of historical data.

Instructor(s): S. Stigler     Terms Offered: Spring
Prerequisite(s): Prior statistics course
Equivalent Course(s): STAT 26700,CHSS 32900,STAT 36700

HIPS 25601. Evolution and Economics. 100 Units.

What can evolutionary theory tell us about economics? The link between the two disciplines was evident already in Darwin’s recognition of his intellectual debt to Malthus and Smith. But the meaning of evolution in the social domain, in particular its economic and political implications, were from the outset the object of heated debates. Under the auspices of the theory of evolution the most disparate conceptions of progress, and diametrically opposed political positions were heralded in the past 150 years. Today there is still great disagreement as to how evolutionary principles can be applied to economics and what practical conclusions we can gain from understanding them.

Instructor(s): Naomi Beck     Terms Offered: TBD

HIPS 25700. Science in Victorian Britain. 100 Units.

Instructor(s): A. Winter     Terms Offered: Winter

HIPS 25901. Evolution of Mind and Morality: Nineteenth to Twenty-First Centuries. 100 Units.

Instructor(s): R. Richards     Terms Offered: Autumn
Prerequisite(s): Third- or fourth-year standing
Equivalent Course(s): CHSS 35900,HIST 25501,HIST 35501,PHIL 24300,PHIL 34300,PSYC 28200

HIPS 25902. A History of Cell and Molecular Biology. 100 Units.

This course will trace the parallel histories of cell and molecular biology, primarily in the 20th century, by exploring continuities and discontinuities between these fields and their precursors. Through discussion, attempts will be made to develop definitions of cell and molecular biology that are based upon their practices and explanatory strategies, and to determine to what extent these practices and strategies overlap. Finally, the relevance of these definitions to current developments in biology will be explored. The course is not designed to be comprehensive, but will provide an overall historical and conceptual framework.

Instructor(s): K. Matlin     Terms Offered: Spring
Prerequisite(s): This course does not meet the requirements for the Biological Sciences Major.
Equivalent Course(s): BIOS 29270

HIPS 26000. History of Philosophy II: Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy. 100 Units.

A survey of the thought of some of the most important figures of this period, including Anselm, Aquinas, Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume.

Instructor(s): B. Callard     Terms Offered: Winter
Prerequisite(s): Completion of the general education requirement in humanities required; PHIL 25000 recommended
Equivalent Course(s): PHIL 26000

HIPS 26101. Social and Cultural Foundations of Mental Health. 100 Units.

The wellbeing of individuals depends on sociocultural as well as psychobiological conditions, yet current professional thinking about mental health and illness focuses almost exclusively on psychobiological factors. Mental health is influenced significantly by the levels and types of environmental support and of stress that persons experience in their social milieus, which differentially affect their individual strengths and vulnerabilities. This course aims to broaden our concepts of positive mental health by examining the contributions of major social scientific theorists, such as Durkheim, Freud, Simmel, Weber, Mead and other classic and recent writers whose works demonstrate the vital connection between individual personality and sociocultural context. The course will consist of lectures and discussion of readings, with grades based on short paper assignments.

Instructor(s): D. Orlinsky
Note(s): Not offered 2014-15
Equivalent Course(s): CHDV 38701

HIPS 26203. Nature/Culture. 100 Units.

Exploring the critical intersection between science studies and political ecology, this course interrogates the contemporary politics of "nature." Focusing on recent ethnographies that complicated our understandings of the environment, the seminar examines how conceptual boundaries (e.g., nature, science, culture, global/local) are established or transgressed within specific ecological orders).

Instructor(s): J. Masco     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): ANTH 23805,ANTH 43805,CHSS 32805

HIPS 26502. Social Studies of Science. 100 Units.

Instructor(s): J. Evans     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): SOCI 20148,SOCI 30148,CHSS 30310

HIPS 27013. Disease, Diet, and the Divine: Health and the Body in American Religions. 100 Units.

From 18th-century debates over smallpox inoculation to contemporary evangelical dieting culture, this course explores how religion has shaped human bodies in sickness and health in American history. We will explore some well-known episodes, like the emergence of Christian Science, as well as less-studied moments in the story of American religion and medicine, like the early-20th-century interest in the effect of tuberculosis on Jews. We will investigate the deep medical interests of early Methodists as well as the sometimes fraught relationship between modern medicine and Amish and Mennonite communities. This course will evaluate how religious thought and practice have interacted in the American context in the human pursuit to understand and change the human body and its health. We will read primary and secondary texts about different religious communities that span the history of America from European exploration to the present: from Algonquians to black Muslims, from Pentecostals to Roman Catholics.

Instructor(s): P. Koch     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): RLST 21311,HIST 27013

HIPS 27302. Culture, Mental Health, and Psychiatry. 100 Units.

 This course examines mental health and illness as a set of subjective experience, social processes and objects of knowledge and intervention. On a conceptual level, the course will invite students to think through the complex relationships between categories of knowledge and clinical technologies (in this case, mainly psychiatric ones) and the subjectivities of persons living with mental illness. Put in slightly different terms, we will look at the multiple links between psychiatrists' professional accounts of mental illness and patients' experiences of it. Readings will be drawn primarily from medical and psychological anthropology, cultural psychiatry, and science studies, but will include some "primary texts" from the memoiristic and psychiatric literatures.

Instructor(s): E. Raikhel     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): CHDV 23301,ANTH 24315,ANTH 35115,CHDV 33301

HIPS 28002. Sciences of Memory in the Twentieth Century. 100 Units.

This course will examine a series of episodes in the history of the understanding of autobiographical memory, beginning with the emergence of academic psychology, and also psychoanalysis in the late nineteenth century and ending with the "memory wars" of the 1980s and '90s. The course will include an examination of the yoked history of beliefs about individual and "collective" memory: the impact of memory therapies during the First and Second World Wars, the impact of innovations in brain surgery on beliefs about the physiological memory record and the neurophysiology of remembering, and the impact of the rise of forensic psychology on the popular, scientific, and legal understanding of memory.

Instructor(s): A. Winter     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 25510,HIST 35505,CHSS 31502

HIPS 28101. Psychoanalysis and Philosophy. 100 Units.

Instructor(s): J. Lear, C. Vogler     Terms Offered: Winter
Prerequisite(s): Open to students who are majoring in philosophy with advanced standing
Equivalent Course(s): PHIL 38209,SCTH 37501

HIPS 28202. Topics in Philosophy of Science: Mechanism and Causation. 100 Units.

Instructor(s): B. Fogel     Terms Offered: Spring
Note(s): Background in science not required.
Equivalent Course(s): PHIL 21109,PHIL 31109

HIPS 28303. Colloquium: History in the Anthropocene. 100 Units.

The course will review debates in the social sciences and the humanities on the idea of a new geological age of the humans, the so-called Anthropocene, and discuss their implications for historiography and historical thinking.

Instructor(s): D. Chakrabarty     Terms Offered: Spring
Prerequisite(s): Upper-level undergraduates by consent of instructor.
Equivalent Course(s): CHSS 49401,HIST 49401

HIPS 28601. Environment and the Body. 100 Units.

Instructor(s): A. Gugliotta     Terms Offered: Winter

HIPS 28801. Environmental Law. 100 Units.

Terms Offered: Autumn
Prerequisite(s): Third- or fourth-year standing, or consent of instructor

HIPS 29610. Galileo Galilei: Science, Art, & Literature. 100 Units.

In this tutorial, we will explore Galileo’s life and scientific works with a special eye to his art and literature. More specifically, we will ponder the way in which Galileo’s artistic and humanistic skills might have played a role in forging a precise scientific discourse, and the way in which such a discourse affected, in turn, his literary and artistic production. Students will become familiar with Galileo’s life and scientific accomplishments and will ponder the more general relationships existing among science, art, and literature in the late-Renaissance period. Intended for  undergraduate students in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, this course is also open to undergraduate students of Italian language and literature who seek to practice and enhance their Italian skills by reading Galileo in his original language.

Instructor(s): D. Macuglia     Terms Offered: Autumn
Note(s): HIST 25013, ITAL 29610

HIPS 29611. Science, Culture, and Society in "Wittgenstein's Vienna," 1867-1934. 100 Units.

Fin-de-siecle Austria-Hungary and the First Austrian Republic, home to Freud, Klimt, Schiele, and Schoenberg, also produced some of the most important thinkers in twentieth-century science and philosophy of science, including Ernst Mach, the Vienna Circle, Franz Exner, Franz Brentano, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. The purpose of this tutorial is to come to a better understanding of these scientists and philosophers of science by studying their ideas, situating them within the context of their society, and examining their foundational role in shaping the intellectual agendas of thinkers like Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, Ludwik Fleck, and Karl Popper.

Instructor(s): Z. Barr     Terms Offered: Winter

HIPS 29612. Explanation and Understanding. 100 Units.

What, if anything, is distinctive about the ways in which we make sense of the behavior of other human beings? How do our explanations and understanding of the things people do differ from the kinds of explanations provided by natural science? What are the implications of these differences for disciplines that are directly concerned with explaining human behavior? In this tutorial, we will examine various philosophical accounts of the distinctive character of such explanations and the understanding they provide. Topics will include the role of laws in explanation, the extent to which assumptions about rationality frame our understanding of human action, the importance of context and cultural background in describing and explaining human behavior, and the degree to which these considerations support relativism.

Instructor(s): A. Browne     Terms Offered: Spring

HIPS 29700. Readings and Research in History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science and Medicine. 100 Units.

Terms Offered: Autumn, Winter, Spring
Note(s): Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Course Form.

HIPS 29800. Junior Seminar: My Favorite Readings in the History and Philosophy of Science. 100 Units.

This course introduces some of the most important and influential accounts of science to have been produced in modern times. It provides an opportunity to discover how philosophers, historians, anthropologists, and sociologists have grappled with the scientific enterprise, and to assess critically how successful their efforts have been. Authors likely include Karl Popper, Thomas Kuhn, Robert Merton, Steven Shapin, and Bruno Latour.

Instructor(s): R. Richards     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 25503

HIPS 29810. Bachelor's Thesis Workshop. 100 Units.

Terms Offered: Autumn, Winter, Spring

HIPS 29900. Bachelor's Thesis. 100 Units.

This is a research course for independent study related to thesis preparation.

Terms Offered: Autumn, Winter, Spring
Note(s): Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Course Form.