17 Jan | MK, PG | Introduction: Applied philosophy: the demarcation problem inherent in the controversy about evolution and intelligent design | Intelligent Design and the Story of Evolution: No Need for Drawing Lines in the Sand; see also Evolution and Intelligent Design: Perspectives and Resources |
24 Jan | MK | Realism and the Aim of Science | Karl Popper in Popper Sections, Chapters 7-12, 17 |
31 Jan | MK, PG | Constructivism and Scientific Revolutions | Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions |
7 Feb | PG | Appearance and Reality in Physics | Kosso, Appearance and Reality, Chapters 1,2,8 |
14 Feb | MK | Scientific Realism | Nelson Goodman, "The Way the World Is" Michael McKenna, "A Metaphyics for Krausz" |
21 Feb | MK | More about Reality and Truth | Hilary Putnam, "Is There Still Anything to Say About Reality and Truth?" Carl Hempel, "Comments on Goodman's Wonderful Ways of Wordmaking" |
28 Feb | PG | Science and the Brain | Grobstein, "Getting It Less Wrong the Brain's Way" Krausz, "Replies to Grobstein" |
14 March | PG | Science and Story Telling | Grobstein, "Sciencce as Story Telling and Story Revising see also Science as Story Telling in Action |
21 March | MK | On Reference Frames in Science | Bernard Harrison and Patricia Hanna, "Interpretation and Reality: Two Queries for Krausz" and "Language, Literature, and Reality" |
28 March | MK | Projectionism or Relationism | Chanda Gupta, "Constructive Realism and the Question of Imputation" Michael Krausz, "Interpretation and Its Objects": A Synoptic View |
4 April | PG | Evolution, Intelligent Design, and Science | Stanley Fish "Academic Cross Dressing: How Intelligent Design Gets Its Arguments from the Left Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, beginning chapters |
11 April | PG | Emergence, Intelligent Design, and Science | George Lakoff, Philosopy in the Flesh, Chapters 6-8 Steven Johnson, Emergence, beginning chapters |
18 April | PG | Pragmatism, Continental Philosophy, Feminism | Imre Lakatos, Science and Pseudoscience Paul Feyerabend, Against Method Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science William James, Pragmatism's Conception of Truth |
25 April | MK, PG | Conclusions and Extensions |
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