Texts in the bookstore:
Klemke, Hollinger, and Rudge (ed.), Introductory Readings in the Philosophy of Science (3rd ed.), Prometheus Books, 1998.
Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Univ. of Chicago Pr., 1996.
Handouts:
Bertrand Russell, “On Induction,” ch. 6 of The Problems of Philosophy (1-up for viewing, 2-up for printing)
Karl Popper, some quotations on falsification and corroboration from Unended Quest (Open Court, 1976), from “The Bucket and the Searchlight,” an appendix to Objective Knoweldge (Oxford, 1972), and from The Logic of Scientific Discovery (Basic Books, 1959)—on Moodle
On the web:
Paul Thagard, “Why Astrology is a Pseudoscience,” Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, 1978, vol. 1, pp. 223-234—on JSTOR at 192639
Carl G. Hempel and Paul Oppenheim, “Studies in the Logic of Explanation,” Philosophy of Science, vol. 15 (1948), pp. 135-175—on JSTOR at 185169
Arthur Eddington, Space, Time and Gravitation (Cambridge University Press, 1920), prologue and ch. XII (pp. 1-14, 165-182)—on Project Gutenberg as ebook #29782
Henry Margenau, “Reality in Quantum Mechanics,” Philosophy of Science, vol. 16 (1949), pp. 287-302—on JSTOR at 185069
John Norton, “Causation as Folk Science,” Philosophers’ Imprint, vol. 3 (2003), no. 4—in Philosophers’ Imprint with handle 2027/spo.3521354.0003.004
Alex Rosenberg, “Reductionism in a Historical Science,” Philosophy of Science, vol. 68 (2001), pp. 135-163—on JSTOR at 3081061
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 at 687049
Daniel Dennett, “In Darwin's Wake, Where Am I?” Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, vol. 75 (2001), pp. 13-30—on JSTOR at 3218710