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University 		PHIL 228
Philosophy of Science 		Prof. Gregory
Fall 2000
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Reading Schedule:

Click on titles to access Reading Questions for that title.
Click here for some notes concerning the writing and grading of RQ responses.
Readings appear in C&C, except * readings will be distributed as a handout.
Schedule likely to change. Changes will be posted here, announced in class, and noted in the News section of main class page.

When reading from C&C you should always read the relevant sections of the authors’ commentary. I suggest reading the commentary after reading the assigned articles, unless you are finding the articles very difficult to understand, in which case you may want to read the commentary first.

Aug 28 Preliminaries
Aug 30 Basic Logic
Sep 1 Basic Logic, Brief History
Sep 4 Brief History (Logic Quiz)
Sep 6 Popper—Science: Conjectures and Refutations; Kuhn—Logic of Discovery or Psychology of Research?; C&C 1.2-1.2
Sep 8  
Sep 11  
Sep 13 Lakatos—Science and Pseudoscience; Thagard—Why Astrology is a Pseudoscience; C&C 1.3-1.4
Sep 15 Feyerabend—How to Defend Society Against Science*
Sep 18 Ruse—Creation-Science Is Not Science; Laudan—Commentary: Science at the Bar;
Ruse—Response; Laudan—More on Creationism*; C&C 1.5-1.6
Sep 20  
Sep 22 Kitcher—Believing Where We Cannot Prove*      End Unit 1
Sep 25 Kuhn—Nature and Necessity of Scientific Revolutions; Objectivity, Value Judgment, and Theory Choice; C&C 2.1-2.4
Sep 27  
Sep 29  
Oct 2 McMullin—Rationality and Paradigm Change in Science; C&C 2.5
Oct 4  
Oct 6 Longino—Values and Objectivity; C&C 2.7
Oct 9 Break
Oct 11 Okruhlik—Gender and the Biological Sciences; C&C 2.8-2.9      End Unit 2
Oct 13  
Oct 16 Duhem—Physical Theory and Experiment; C&C 3.1
Oct 18 Quine—Two Dogmas of Empiricism; C&C 3.2-3.3
Oct 20  
Oct 23  
Oct 25  
Oct 27 Laudan—Demystifying Underdetermination; C&C 3.4-3.5
Oct 30 Lipton—Induction; Popper—The Problem of Induction; C&C 4.1-4.2
Nov 1 Cancelled
Nov 3 Cancelled
Nov 6 Salmon—Rational Prediction; C&C 4.3
Nov 8  
Nov 10 Hempel—Criteria of Confirmation and Acceptance
Nov 13 Carnap—The Value of Laws; Hempel—Two Basic Types of Scientific Explanation, The Thesis of Structural Identity
Nov 15  
Nov 17 Ayer—What Is a Law of Nature; Dretske—Laws of Nature
Nov 20  
Nov 22 Break
Nov 24 Break
Nov 27  
Nov 29 Maxwell—The Ontological Status of Theoretical Entities; van Fraassen—Arguments Concerning Scientific Realism
Dec 1  
Dec 4  
Dec 6  
Dec 8  

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