The course will enable students to appreciate that science is a product of human thought and practice. Students will be exposed to the views of modern and contemporary philosophers of science. Students will learn the various approaches to scientific reasoning.

The course covers meanings and aims of science as illustrated by the views of Popper, Kuhn, Feyerabend, Lakatos and the Copernican revolution.  Patterns of scientific explanations; Scientific theories; Hypothetico-deductive reasoning; Explanation and inference; Science as process and Science as product; and the Constructs of nature of science (e.g. Tentativeness, objectivity, among others) will be discussed.