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Course reader: Understanding Science

PHI 218, Spring 2006
  1. Karl R. Popper, Conjectures and Refutations. Harper & Row, 1963, 1965. 33-65.

  2. Robert K. Merton, `Science and Democratic Social Structure' from Social Theory and Social Structure. Free Press, 1968. 604-615.

  3. John Worrall, `Fresnel, Poisson, and the White Spot' from The Uses of Experiment, edited by David Gooding, Trevor Pinch, and Simon Schaffer. Cambridge University Press, 1989. 135-157.

  4. Trevor Pinch, `Towards an Analysis of Scientific Obersvation' from Social Studies of Science 1985 vol 15. 3-36.

  5. S. B. Barnes, `Making Out in Industrial Research' from Science Studies. 1971 vol 1. 157-175

  6. an assortment of subway maps: Moscow, London, and Washington, DC

  7. an assortment of world maps: Mercator, Stereoscopic, Azimuthal Equidistant, and Orthographic

  8. Stephen Toulmin, `Theories and Maps' from The Philosophy of Science 1960, Harper&Row. 105-139.

  9. Marguerite Halloway, `A Lab of Her Own' from Scientific American. 1993.

  10. a news item: `Tomboys made, not born.' Australian Broadcasting Company. Nov 12, 2002.

  11. Helen E. Longino, `Can There Be a Feminist Science?' from Hypatia. 1987 vol 2 no 3. 51-64.

  12. Ronald N. Giere, `The Feminism Question in the Philosophy of Science' from Feminism, Science, and Philosophy of Science. L.H. Nelson and J. Nelson, eds. Kluwer, 1996. 3-15.

  13. Stephen G. Brush, `Women in Physical Science' from The Physics Teacher. Jan 1985 vol 23 no 1. 11-19.

  14. Naomi Oreskes, `Objectivity or heroism? On the invisibility of women in science' from Osiris. 1996 vol 11. 87-113.

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