Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics Lesson Plan

What are the natural sciences, and how did they develop of the course of history? Who are some of the key figures involved in this history?

This question asks students to think back to some of their history classes and recall the seminal ideas that shaped scientific inquiry throughout the centuries. Individuals such as Kepler, Copernicus, Galileo, Huygens, Newton, Einstein, Plank, and others drove the history of physics forward, but the list of figures is different in, for example, chemistry or biology. It is important, however, for the teacher to emphasize that science has never in any way been exclusively European or Western, and that the factors driving scientific...