Chapter 3. The Stuff of Science


Jack and others sat in on Zoo 400, History and Philosophy of Biology, taught by Cy Finnegan, embryologist, and Dean of Science. Cy was critical of biology as an "exceptional" science. He discussed Carl Hempel and his Covering Law Model, recounting the story of the physician Semmelweis and his discovery of the importance of hand washing in preventing disease after rejecting his own earlier hypotheses.

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