Philosophy of Science

Fall 2012

Professor: P.D. Magnus

• Syllabus
• Course readings at ERes

Course readings:

• To save the phenomena (van Fraassen, Bas)
• Refusing the Devil's Bargain (Stanford, Kyle)
• Realism, Approximate Truth, and Philosophical Method (Boyd, Richard)
• A Confutation of Convergent Realism (Laudan, Larry)
• Structural Realism: The Best of Both Worlds? (Worrall, John)
• Form-driven vs. Content-driven Arguments for Realism (Saatsi, Juha)
• Causation&Explanation (Psillos, Stathis)
• Ceteris Paribus Lost (Earman, John, John Roberts, and Sheldon Smith)
• Fundamentalism vs. the Patchwork of Laws (Cartwright, Nancy)
• 1953 and All That. A Tale of Two Sciences (Kitcher, Philip)
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