Syllabus: contact info, texts, requirements, calendar
 
 

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