Texts in the bookstore:

Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago Univ. Pr., 1996).

Samir Okasha, Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford Univ. Pr., 2002).

Readings on JSTOR and EBSCO:

Richard Creath, “The Pragmatics of Observation,” Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, 1988, vol. 1, pp. 149-153 (on JSTOR)

J. A. Fodor, “Special Sciences,” Synthese, vol. 28 (1974), pp. 97-115 (on JSTOR)

Norwood R. Hanson, “Uncertainty,” The Philosophical Review, vol. 63 (1954), pp. 65-73 (on JSTOR)

────, “On the Symmetry Between Explanation and Prediction,” The Philosophical Review, vol. 68 (1959), pp. 349-358 (on JSTOR)

Gilbert H. Harman, “The Inference to the Best Explanation,” §I, The Philosophical Review, vol. 74 (1965), pp. 88-91 (on JSTOR)

────, “Enumerative Induction as Inference to the Best Explanation,” The Journal of Philosophy, vol. 65 (1968), pp. 529-533 (on JSTOR)

Carl G. Hempel and Paul Oppenheim, “Studies in the Logic of Explanation,” §§1-3, Philosophy of Science, vol. 15 (1948), pp. 135-140 (on JSTOR); §4, pp. 140-146, is also recommended

Larry Laudan, “Realism without the Real,” Philosophy of Science, vol. 51 (1984), pp. 156-162 (on JSTOR)

────, “Grunbaum on ‘The Duhemian Argument’,” ¶¶1-4, Philosophy of Science, vol. 32 (1965), pp. 295-296 (on JSTOR)

N. David Mermin, “Is the moon there when nobody looks?” Physics Today, vol. 38 (1985), pp. 38-47 (on EBSCO)

John Norton, “The Hole Argument,” §§1-3, Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, 1988, vol. 2, pp. 56-59 (on JSTOR)

Anthony O’Hear, “Rationality of Action and Theory-Testing in Popper,” Mind, n.s., vol. 84 (1975), pp. 273-276 (on JSTOR)

W. V. Quine, “On Empirically Equivalent Systems of the World,” Erkenntnis, vol. 9 (1975), pp. 313-328 (on JSTOR)

Alex Rosenberg, Reductionism in a Historical Science, Philosophy of Science, vol. 68 (2001), pp. 135-163 (on JSTOR)

Michael Ruse, Biological Species: Natural Kinds, Individuals, or What? The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol. 38 (1987), pp. 225-242 (on JSTOR)

Paul R. Thagard, “Why Astrology is a Pseudoscience,” in Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, 1978, pp. 223-234 (on JSTOR)

Bas C. van Fraassen, “The Pragmatics of Explanation,” American Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 14 (1977), pp. 143-150 (on JSTOR)

────, “The Charybdis of Realism,” §§1-2, §4 (1st and last ¶), §5, Synthese, vol. 52 (1982), pp. 25-28, 31, 35-36 (on JSTOR)