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Original sources Goodman, N. 1979. ‘The new riddle of induction’, in his Fact, Fiction, and Forecast (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. [On Blackboard site.] Lipton, P. 2007. ‘The ravens revisited’, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 61: 75-95. Swinburne, R. 1971. ‘The paradoxes of confirmation: a survey’, American Philosophical Quarterly, 8: 318-30. Textbooks/encyclopedia entries Vickers 2012 (see Week 3), §5 See §5 of the reading list on the Blackboard site for lots more suggestions. Week 5: Falsificationism Original sources Popper, K. R. 1972. Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach (Oxford: OUP), Ch.1 [on Blackboard site] and Ch.3 (‘Epistemology without a knowing subject’). Schilpp, P. A. 1974 (ed.) The Philosophy of Karl Popper, 2 vols. Lots of papers discussing Popper’s view; see especially those by Maxwell, Putnam and Levison (in Book 1). Textbooks/encyclopedia entries Ladyman 2002, §§3.2-3.6. Thornton, S. 2011. ‘Karl Popper’, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2011 Edition), ed. E. N. Zalta, plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2011/entries/popper/ See §2 of the reading list on the Blackboard site for lots more suggestions. Week 6: Scientific revolutions Original sources Hacking, I. 1981. (ed.) Scientific Revolutions (Oxford: OUP) Kuhn, T. S. 1962. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (any edition). [Excepts to appear on the Blackboard site in due course] Kuhn, T. S. 1990. ‘The road since Structure, Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, 1990: 3-13. Lakatos, I. & Musgrave, A. 1970 (eds.) Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge (Cambridge: CUP) Textbooks/encyclopedia entries Nickles, T. 2011. ‘Scientific revolutions’, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2011 Edition), ed. E. N. Zalta, plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2011/entries/scientificrevolutions/ Oberheim, E. & Hoyningen-Huene, P. 2012. ‘The incommensurability of scientific theories’, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2012 Edition), ed. E. N. Zalta, plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2012/entries/incommensurability/ Ladyman 2002, Ch.4. Bird, A. 2000. Thomas Kuhn (Chesham: Acumen) 132
See §3 of the reading list on the Blackboard site for lots more suggestions. Week 7: Scientific realism Original sources Cartwright, N. 1983. How the Laws of Physics Lie (Oxford: OUP), Chs.4 & 5 Churchland, P. M. & Hooker, C. A. 1985 (eds) Images of Science: Essays on Realism and Empiricism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press) Hacking, I. 1983. Representing and Intervening (Cambridge: CUP), Chs.1 & 16 Maxwell, G. 1962. ‘The ontological status of theoretical entities’, Minnesota Studies in Philosophy of Science III. www.mcps.umn.edu/assets/pdf/3.1_Maxwell.pdf Psillos, S. 1989. ‘On van Fraassen’s critique of abductive reasoning’, Philosophical Quarterly, 46: 31-47. van Fraassen, B. C. 1980. The Scientific Image (Oxford: Clarendon Press), Chs. 1-5 & 7 [Ch.2 on Blackboard; whole book available online through the library] Worrall, J. 1989. ‘Structural realism: The best of both worlds?’, Dialectica, 43: 99-124. Textbooks/encyclopedia entries Chakravartty, A. 2011. ‘Scientific realism’, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2011/entries/scientific-realism/ Monton, B. & Mohler, C. 2012. ‘Constructive empiricism’, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2012 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2012/entries/constructive-empiricism/ Ladyman 2002, Chs.5-7. See §8 of the reading list on the Blackboard site for lots more suggestions. Week 8: The nature of explanation Original sources Carnap, R. 1962. ‘Two models of scientific explanation’, in Y. Balashov & A. Rosenberg, Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Readings (New York: Routledge, 2002), 45-55. fitelson.org/woodward/hempel_tm.pdf Lewis, D. K. 1986. ‘Causal explanation’ in his Philosophical Papers, vol. 2 (Oxford: Oxford University Press). [Available from the Library as an e-book] Lipton, P. 2000. ‘Inference to the best explanation’, in W. H. Newton-Smith (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Science (Oxford: Blackwell). [On Blackboard site] Salmon, W. C. 1984. ‘Scientific explanation: three basic conceptions’ in PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, 1984: 293-305. people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/tennant9/salmon_PSA1984.pdf Textbooks/encyclopedia entries Psillos, S. 2002. Causation and Explanation (Chesham: Acumen), *ch nos* Woodward, J. 2011. ‘Scientific Explanation’, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2011 Edition), E. N. Zalta (ed.), plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2011/entries/scientific-explanation/ Ladyman 2002, §§7.1-7.2 133
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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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Klement, Kevin. ‘Russell’s Logi
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Putnam, ‘“Two Dogmas” Revisit
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Brain McLaughlin, ‘Anomalous Moni
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Loux, Michael and D. Zimmerman (eds
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5. How much of Russell’s theory o
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Summary We will focus on the metaph
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Students should consult the Univers
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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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