PHILOSOPHY 2130
SEMESTER I 2003 - 2004
Philosophy of the sciences

 Course outline

Lecture 1: Thought Experiments

Lecture 2: Thought Experiments II

Lecture 3: The Demarcation Problem and Falsificationism

Lecture 4: Troubles With Falsificationism and Thagard's solution to the Demarcation Problem

Readings

Lecture 5: Early Modern Philosophy of Science - A Short Introduction

Lecture 6: Early-Modern Scientific Method

Lecture 7: The Problem of Induction

Lecture 8: Solutions to the Problem of Induction?

Lecture 9: Science versus Non-Science: Evolutionary Theory and Creationism

Lecture 10: Scientific Explanation

Lecture 11: More on Scientific Explanation

Some Criticisms of Evolutionary Theory

Mountains, Molehills and Misunderstandings

Paper Topics (Paper due: Dec. 11th)

Locke vs Modern Biological Classification

Locke and Natural Kinds

 

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