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Please note that all essay marks are provisional until confirmed by the external examiner and the final examinations boards in June. Students are welcome to discuss their essay with their tutor or the course convenor during their office hour. Feedback The School of Social Sciences (SoSS) is committed to providing timely and appropriate feedback to students on their academic progress and achievement, thereby enabling students to reflect on their progress and plan their academic and skills development effectively. Students are reminded that feedback is necessarily responsive: only when a student has done a certain amount of work and approaches us with it at the appropriate fora is it possible for us to feed back on the student's work. The main forms of feedback on this course are written feedback responses to assessed essays and exam answers. We also draw your attention to the variety of generic forms of feedback available to you on this as on all SoSS courses. These include: meeting the lecturer/tutor during their office hours; e-mailing questions to the lecturer/tutor; asking questions from the lecturer (before and after lecture); presenting a question on the discussion board on Blackboard; and obtaining feedback from your peers during tutorials. Assessed Essay Titles 1. For one of the following – homeopathy, creationism, parapsychology, psychoanalysis – which of the following claims is true? (a) It’s good science; (b) It’s bad science; (c) It’s pseudoscience. NOTE ON QUESTION 1. You’re welcome to make use of websites to find examples of specific claims put forward by proponents of homeopathy etc. and attempts to defend the relevant area as good science. However in all other respects you should treat this as a normal philosophy essay and treat web sources accordingly (e.g. just because someone says something on a website, it doesn’t mean they have any expertise or authority!). 2. Is there ever a good reason to believe a scientific theory? 3. Under what circumstances, if any, does an observation confirm a scientific theory? 4. Does falsificationism provide a better account of the rationality of scientific enquiry than inductivism? 5. COURSE OUTLINE Week Beginning Topic Reading (for the following Monday) 1 28 Jan Introduction & Bortolotti 2008, Ch.1 Relevant chapter of textbook 128
organisation 2 4 Feb What is science? Lakatos 1973; Thagard 1978 3 11 Feb The problem of induction Shand 2001 2 4 18 Feb The nature of confirmation Goodman 1979 3.1, 3.2 5 25 Feb Falsificationism Popper 1972 (Ch.1) n/a 6 4 March Scientific revolutions Kuhn 1962 (excerpts) 5 7 11 March Scientific realism Van Fraassen 1980 (Chs.1 & 2) ESSAY DEADLINE: 12 MARCH 8 18 March The nature of explanation Lipton 2000 3.3 EASTER HOLIDAYS 9 15 April Laws of nature Beebee 2000 n/a 10 22 April Natural kinds Dupré 1981 4.1, 4.2 11 29 April The ethics of scientific enquiry 12 6 May Revision session/wholegroup tutorial* Milgram 1962* 6 n/a 1 4.3 n/a * No tutorials in Week 12 because the Monday is a bank holiday. Instead, please do the reading and preparation as usual and we will run a whole-group tutorial session in the second lecture hour (Tuesday 4-5). Tutorial preparation: You must do the assigned reading (as above – all available to download from the Blackboard site), answer the questions on the reading (these will be put up on the Blackboard site a few days in advance), and bring your answers with you. As per the study budget, you should be spending around 5 hours on preparation for each tutorial. Anyone who fails to comply with the above may be required to leave the tutorial. Preparation for Week 2 tutorials: See the document on the Blackboard site, under ‘Week 1’ in Course Content. A note on the lectures: Normally the first hour (10-11) will be a straightforward lecture, with the second hour (4-5) a guided discussion session aimed at consolidating understanding of the material we covered earlier in the day. This general pattern is subject to alteration, however; e.g. I might not get through all the material in the first hour, or I might get through it in less than an hour. 6. READING LIST 129
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SECOND YEAR COURSE OUTLINES 2012-20
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FACULTY OF HUMANITIES SCHOOL OF SOC
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Learning Outcomes On successful com
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TOTAL: 200 hours Prompt arrival at
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For further details please see the
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All reading lists are for guidance
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Makin, Gideon. The Metaphysicians o
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Beiser (ed.) Cambridge Companion to
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Sluga, Hans, Frege [an intermediate
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Required Readings 1. Russell, ‘De
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Putnam, ‘“Two Dogmas” Revisit
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Loux, Michael and D. Zimmerman (eds
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Summary We will focus on the metaph
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Students should consult the Univers
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(3) What is the best formulation of
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Davidson, D. 1970. Mental events. I
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aspects of the work of some of the
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Kelly, S. 1999. What do we see (whe
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