LFILO2602 : Readings / Lecture

Général Agenda Lecture Travail Peer Review

General Schedule Readings Final Paper Peer Review

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Toute de la lecture pour ce cours est ci-dessous. / All of the readings for this course can be found in this list.

• 3 févr: Carnap, “On the Character of Philosophic Problems”
• 3 févr: Popper, “Science: Conjectures and Refutations”
• 10 févr: Hanson, “Observation”
• 10 févr: Lakatos, Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Introduction (or, listen to Lakatos himself deliver this introduction as a lecture)
• 17 févr-3 mars: Kuhn, Structure of Scientific Revolutions
• 10 mars: Hempel and Oppenheim, “Studies in the Logic of Explanation” (excerpts)
• 10 mars: van Fraassen, “The Pragmatics of Explanation”
• 17 mars: Maxwell, “The Ontological Status of Theoretical Entities”
• 17 mars: van Fraassen, “Arguments Concerning Scientific Realism”
• 17 mars: Laudan, “A Confutation of Convergent Realism”
• 24 mars: Douglas, “Origins of the Value-Free Ideal for Science”
• 24 mars (facultatif/optional): Douglas, “Values in Science”
• 24 mars (facultatif/optional): Edward Teller’s letter to Leo Szilard about the atomic bomb
• 31 mars (soit): Richardson, “When Gender Criticism Becomes Standard Practice”
• 31 mars (soit): Okruhlik, “Gender and the Biological Sciences”
• 7 avril : Daston and Galison, “The Image of Objectivity”
• 14 avril : Chang, “Epistemic Activities and Systems of Practice”