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The article examines the possible inclusion of teaching the history and the philosophy of science as part of general education in the curriculum of higher education in the U.S. However, such proposal has raised questions on the capacity of the scientists and educators to carry out the two subjects, contending that the history and the philosophy of science as distinct subjects and unnecessary in the curriculum. The present obscurity of these courses becomes a bit puzzling when the realizing that an understanding of science, its nature, growth and evolution has been predicated upon its past history and a prevailing climate of ideas, many of which were traditional and philosophical in nature. |
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