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WEEK 1
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3/27
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Kosso, chapters 1, 2 |
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3/29
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Hempel & Oppenheim, "Studies in the Logic of Explanation" |
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WEEK 2
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4/3
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Kosso, chapter 3
Cartwright, "The Truth Doesn't Explain Much" |
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4/5
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Hempel, "Statistical Explanation"
[suggested: Salmon, "Scientific Explanation"] |
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WEEK 3
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4/10
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Salmon, "Why Ask 'Why?'? An Inquiry Concerning Scientific Explanation" |
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4/12
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Van Fraassen, "The Pragmatics of Explanation" |
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WEEK 4
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4/17
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Friedman, "Explanation and Scientific Understanding"
Kitcher, "Explanatory Unification" |
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4/19
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Carnap, "The Confirmation of Laws and Theories"
Kosso, chapters 4,5 |
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WEEK 5
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4/24
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Hempel, "Studies in the Logic of Confirmation" |
***ESSAY 1 DUE***
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4/26
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continue Hempel, "Studies in the Logic of Confirmation" |
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WEEK 6
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5/1
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Popper, "Science: Conjectures and Refutations"
Duhem, "Physical Theory and Experiment" |
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5/3
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Goodman, "The New Riddle of Induction"
Salmon and Earman, "The Confirmation of Scientific Hypotheses" |
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WEEK 7
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5/8
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Horwich, "Wittgensteinian Bayesianism" |
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5/10
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Van Fraassen, "Arguments Concerning Scientific Realism"
Fine, "And Not Anti-Realism Either" |
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WEEK 8
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5/15
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Brown, "Explaining the Success of Science"
Hacking, "Experimentation and Scientific Realism" |
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5/17
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Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
chapters 1, 2, 4, 6 |
***ESSAY 2 DUE***
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WEEK 9
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5/22
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Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
chapters 9, 10, 13
Davidson, "On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme" |
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5/24
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Lakatos, "Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research
Programmes" |
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WEEK 10
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5/29
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Laudan, "From Theories to Research Traditions"
Feyerabend, "How to Be a Good Empiricist - A Plea for Tolerance in
Matters Epistemological" |
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5/31
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Wrap-Up |
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WEEK 11
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6/4
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EXAM WEEK |
Last day for optional revisions
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6/6
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EXAM WEEK |
***ESSAY 3 DUE***
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