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Philosophy of Science

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PhilosophyofScienceSyllabus

GradingCurvesPhilosophyofScience06

PhilosophyofBiology

The Philosophy of Biology Reading Group has no official relationship to the course, but I suspect there will be a lot of overlap between the people interested.

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ObservationalTheoreticalDistinction
PopperFalsificationism
DuhemQuineHolism?
LaudanCritiqueofUnderdetermination
ReductionandUnityofScience
MultipleRealizabilityandDisunityofScience
DeductiveNomologicalExplanation
ExplanationasUnification
KuhnsCyclicalTheory
TrouserWords
HackingRationalityFeyerabendDaDaism
SocialConstructivism
FeministEpistemologyofScience
ScientificRealism
PutnamRealisminMathematicsandElsewhere
vanFraassenvstheRealists

The Uses of Experiment

ScientificInstruments
PrismsMirrorsMathematicalInstruments
GalileoFresnelRhetoric
MagneticCurves
CloudsandCloudChambers
ThreeQuarksforMusterMark
FrankensteinsMites
BigScience
TestingandExperiment

-- ShaughanLavine - 08 Jan 2006