| 1 |
Aug. 31 |
Introduction to the seminar |
Norton |
| 2 |
Sept. 7 |
John E. Jones, III, "Whether ID is
Science",
Section 4., pp. 64-89 in Decision of
the Court in Kitzmiller et al. v Dover Area School District et al.,
United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania,
Case No. O4cv2688, December 20, 2005. |
Norton
handout |
| 2 |
Sept. 7 |
Carl F. Craver, "Structure of Scientific Theories,"
Ch. 4 in Peter Machamer and Michael
Silberstein, eds., The Blackwell Guide of the Philosophy of
Science. Blackwell, 2003. |
Bryan Roberts |
| 2 |
Sept. 7 |
Carl G. Hempel, "Empirical Criteria of Cognitive Significance:
Problems and Changes,"
Ch. 4 in Aspects of Scientific
Explanation and Other Essays in the Philosophy of Science. New
York: Macmillan, 1965 |
Karen Hauk |
| 2 |
Sept. 7 |
Karl Popper, "Science: Conjectures and Refutations"
Sections I-III only, pp. 33-41 in
Conjectures and Refutations. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul,
1963. |
Will Lebing |
| 3 |
Sept. 14 |
Thomas S. Kuhn, "Logic of Discovery of Psychology of Research,"
pp. 1-23 in Imre Lakatos and Alan
Musgrave, eds., Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge.
Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1970. |
Tyke aka Albert Nunez
handout |
| 3 |
Sept. 14 |
Bas C. Van Fraasen, "To Save the Phenomena,"
Ch. 3 in The Scientific Image.
Oxford: Clarendon, 1980. |
Peter Distelzweig |
| 3 |
Sept. 14 |
Collins, H. "Detecting Gravitational Radiation: The Experimenters'
Regress,"
Ch. 4, pp. 79-111 in Changing Order:
Replication and Induction in Scientific Practice. London: Sage
Publications.1985. |
Jason Byron |
|
Sept. 21 |
First Paper Due. "The Demarcation
Problem" |
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| 4 |
Sept. 21 |
Allan Franklin, "Experiment
in Physics",
The Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy |
Jonah Schupbach |
| 4 |
Sept. 21 |
Wendy Parker, "Does Matter Really Matter? On Some Recent Claims
about Computer Simulations, Experiments, and Materiality"
|
Michael Hoffman |
| 4 |
Sept. 21 |
John Earman and Wesley C. Salmon, "Part I: Qualitative
Confirmation"
pp. 43-55 in John Earman and Wesley C.
Salmon, "The Confirmation of Scientific Hypotheses", ch. 2 in M. H.
Salmon et al. Introduction to the Philosophy of Science.
Indianapolis: Hacket, 1999. |
Norton
handout |
| 5 |
Sept. 28 |
John Earman and Wesley C. Salmon, "Part II: Hume's Problem of
Induction"
ibid., pp. 55-66. |
Justin Blank |
| 5 |
Sept. 28 |
John Earman and Wesley C. Salmon, "Part III: Probability"
ibid., pp. 66-89. |
Peter Distelzweig |
| 5 |
Sept. 28 |
John Earman and Wesley C. Salmon, "Part IV: Confirmation and
Probability"
ibid., pp. 89-100. |
Jonah Schupbach |
| 6 |
Oct. 4 |
John D. Norton, A Little
Survey of Induction,"
in P. Achinstein, ed., Scientific
Evidence: Philosophical Theories and Applications. Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2005. pp. 9-34.
John D. Norton, "A
Material Theory of Induction"
Philosophy of Science,
70(October 2003), pp. 647-70. |
Norton |
| 6 |
Oct. 4 |
N. Goodman, "The New Riddle of
Induction,"
Ch. III in Fact, Fiction and Forecast.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983.
John D. Norton, "The Formal
Equivalence of Grue and Green and How It Undoes the New Riddle of
Induction." Synthese,
(2006) 150: 185-207. |
Norton
(again?) |
| 6 |
Oct. 4 |
John D. Norton, "Must Evidence Underdetermine Theories?"
Preprint. |
Norton
(again!) |
| 7 |
Oct. 12 |
Thomas S. Kuhn "Objectivity, Value Judgment, and Theory Choice,"
Ch. 13, pp. 320-339 in The Essential
Tension. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977. |
Peter Distelzweig |
| 7 |
Oct. 12 |
Wesley C. Salmon, "Scientific Explanation,"
Ch. 1, pp. 7-41 in M. H. Salmon et al.,
Introduction to the Philosophy of Science. Indianapolis:
Hackett, 1999.
|
Jason Byron |
| 7 |
Oct. 12 |
James Woodward, "4. The Causal Mechanical Model" and "5. A
Unificationist Account of Explanation"
in "Scientific
Explanation", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |
Jonah Schupbach |
| 8 |
Oct. 19 |
Carl G. Hempel. "The Theoretician's Dilemma: A Study in the Logic
of Theory Construction,"
Ch. 8 in Aspects of Scientific
Explanation and Other Essays in the Philosophy of Science. New
York: Macmillan, 1965 |
Michael Hoffman |
| 8 |
Oct. 19 |
Bas C. Van Frassen, "Arguments Concerning Scientific Realism,"
Ch. 2, pp. 7-40 in The Scientific Image. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1980. |
Milos Vuletic |
| 8 |
Oct. 19 |
James Ladyman, "What is Structual Realism?"
Studies in History and Philosophy of
Science, 29a(1998), pp. 409-24. |
Bryan Roberts |
| 9 |
Oct. 26 |
Wesley C. Salmon, "Causality: Production and Propagation,"
Ch. 18 in Causality and
Explanation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. |
Chiara Preti |
| 9 |
Oct. 26 |
Phil Dowe , "Causal
Processes,"
The Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy |
Will Lebing |
| 9 |
Oct. 26 |
James Woodward, "Causation
and Manipulability,"
The Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy |
Karen Hauck |
| 10 |
Nov. 2 |
John D. Norton, "Causation as Folk
Science,"
Philosophers' Imprint Vol. 3,
No. 4 http://www.philosophersimprint.org/003004/ |
Norton |
| 10 |
Nov. 2 |
Robert Batterman, "Intertheory
Relations in Physics,"
The Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy |
Jan Vales |
| 10 |
Nov. 2 |
Michael Silberstein, "Reduction, Emergence and Explanation."
Ch. 5 in Peter Machamer and Michael
Silberstein, eds., The Blackwell Guide of the Philosophy of
Science. Blackwell, 2003. |
Milos Vuletic |
| 11 |
Nov. 9 |
Nancy Cartwright, "Introduction"
Ch. 1, pp.1-19 in The Dappled World: A Study of the
Boundaries of Science. Cambridge University Press,
1999. |
Chiara Preti |
| 11 |
Nov. 9 |
Nancy Cartwright, "How Bridge Principles Set the Domain of Quantum
Theory"
Ch. 8, pp.179-209 in The Dappled World: A Study of the
Boundaries of Science. Cambridge University Press,
1999. |
Will Lebing |
| 11 |
Nov. 9 |
Paul Teller, Review of Nancy Cartwright, The Dappled World:...
Nous 36 (2002), pp.
299-325. |
Norton |
| 12 |
Nov. 16 |
Thomas S. Kuhn, "Revolutions as Changes of World View"
Ch. X in The Structure of Scientific
Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1970. |
Justin Blank |
| 12 |
Nov. 16 |
Imre Lakatos, "History of Science and it's Rational
Reconstruction,"
Ch. V in I. Hacking, ed., Scientific
Revolutions. Oxford University Press, 1981. |
Tyke Nunez |
| 12 |
Nov. 16 |
Larry Laudan, "A Problem Solving Approach to Scientific
Progress,"
Ch. VII in I. Hacking, ed.,
Scientific Revolutions. Oxford University Press,
1981. |
Milos Vuletic |
|
Nov. 23 |
Thanksgiving |
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| 13 |
Nov, 30 |
John D. Norton, The
Three Principal Problems of Philosophy of Modern Physics |
Norton |
|
Nov. 30 |
John, D. Norton, "The Hole
Argument" |
Norton |
|
Nov. 30 |
Craig Callender, "Thermodynamic
Asymmetry in Time" |
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|
Nov. 30 |
Allen Stairs. "Quantum mechanics, interpretation of." (1998) In E.
Craig (Ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. London: Routledge.
Read online within Pitt system at http://www.rep.routledge.com/article/Q085 |
Jan Vales |
| 14 |
Dec. 7 |
P. Kitcher, "1953 and All That: A Tale of Two Sciences." Philosophical Review 93 (1984),
335-373. |
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Dec. 7 |
A. Rosenberg, "Reductionism in a Historical Science." Philosophy of Science 68 (2001),
135-163 |
Jason Byron |
|
Dec. 7 |
E. Sober, "Two Outbreaks of Lawlessness in Recent Philosophy of
Biology." Philosophy of
Science. 64 (Suppl.) (1997), 458-467. |
Norton |
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Dec. 14 |
Comprehensive Exam (HPS PhD Program only)
Graphic courtesy Bryan
Roberts |
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