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SYLLABUS
READINGS
- Science and Pseudoscience
- 9/13 - Rene Descartes, First Meditation of Meditations on First Philosophy
- 9/13 - Bertrand Russell, Chapters 1 and 4 of The Problems of Philosophy
- 9/15 - William Bechtel, Chapter 2 of The Philosophy of Science: An Overview for Cognitive Science
- 9/15 - A. J. Ayer, Chapter 1 of Language, Truth, & Logic
- 9/20 - David Hume, excerpt from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- 9/20 - Karl Popper, Chapter 1 of The Logic of Scientific Discovery
- 9/20 - Karl Popper, "Science: Conjectures & Refutations"
- 9/22 - Sigmund Freud, "The Dream and the Primal Scene" (excerpt from The Collected Papers)
- 9/22 - Adolf Grunbaum, "The Liabilities of Freudian Psychoanalysis"
- 9/22 - Edward Erwin, excerpt from "Psychoanalysis: How Firm is the Evidence?"
- 9/27 - Imre Lakatos, "Science and Pseudoscience"
- 9/27 - Paul Thagard, "Why Astrology Is a Pseudoscience"
- Science, Religion, and God
- Science & Society
- Science, Rationality, & Objectivity
- Realism vs. Anti-realism
PAPER ASSIGNMENTS
STUDY QUESTIONS - Updated 11/26/10
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