Lecture 1. Knowledge and truth are age-old problems
Lecture 2. Competing visions of the scientific method
Lecture 3. Galileo, the Catholic Church, and truth
Lecture 4. Isaac Newton's theory of the universe
Lecture 5. Science vs. philosophy in the 17th century
Lecture 6. Locke, Hume, and the path to skepticism
Lecture 7. Kant restores certainty
Lecture 8. Science, society, and the Age of Reason
Lecture 9. Science comes of age in the 19th century
Lecture 10. Theories need not explain
Lecture 11. Knowledge as a product of the active mind
Lecture 12. Trading reality for experience
Lecture 13. Scientific truth in the early 20th century
Lecture 14. Two new theories of scientific knowledge
Lecture 15. Einstein and Bohr redefine reality
Lecture 16. Truth, ideology, and thought collectives
Lecture 17. Kuhn's revolutionary image of science
Lecture 18. Challenging mainstream science from within
Lecture 19. Objectivity under attack
Lecture 20. Scientific knowledge as a social construct
Lecture 21. New definitions of objectivity
Lecture 22. Science wars of the late 20th century
Lecture 23. Intelligent design and the scope of science
Lecture 24. Truth, history, and citizenship.
