PrintPhilosophy of Space and Time
Term:
Spring 2012
Online:
No
Subject Area:
PHILOSOPHY (PHIL)
Course Number:
PHIL 026 601
Day(s):
Monday
Day(s):
Wednesday
Instructor:
AKHUNDOV, MURAD
Primary Program:
LPS Undergraduate & Post-Baccalaureate
Secondary Program:
The Young Scholars Program Course Description:
This course provides an introduction to the philosophy and intellectual history of space-time and cosmological models from ancient to modern times with special emphasis on paradigm shifts, leading to Einstein's theories of special and general relativity and cosmology. Other topics include Big Bang, black holes stellar structure, the metaphysics of substance, particles, fields, and superstrings, unification and grand unification of modern physical theories. No philosophy or physics background is presupposed.
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