C# Generic Method Without Specifying Type

Ok so I'm a Java guy starting to use C# and I was coding and started making a generic method and what I wrote runs and compiles but it goes against everything I know about how generics should work so I'm hoping someone can explain this to me:

So I have a generic method defined as follows:

public static List<T> CopyAsList<T>(IEnumerable<T> list, Object lockObject)  
{  
    if (list != null)  
    {  
        lock (lockObject)  
        {  
            return new List<T>(list);  
        }  
    }  
    return null;  
}  

But the weird thing to me is that I can call this generic method without ever specifying T and it will work:

List<String> strings = new List<string>() { "a", "b", "c"};
List<int> ints = new List<int>() { 1,2,3};
object lockObject = new object();

foreach (string s in CopyAsList(strings, lockObject))
{
    Console.WriteLine(s);
}

foreach (int i in CopyAsList(ints, lockObject))
{
    Console.WriteLine(i);
}

How is it the code is able to compile without ever specifying the generic type? Does C# infer the type at runtime?