Readings, questions and assignments, week by week. Lectures on Mondays, seminars (presentations and discussion) on Thursdays, 13:15–16:00 in BBG 315/317.
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Lecture Mon 14 Sep · Seminar Thu 17 Sep · Guido Bacciagaluppi & Marina Passaro
Deadline 22:00, as an anonymised PDF (no name) via Brightspace. Revised version possible until Friday 18 September, 18:00. Two paragraphs of 150–200 words on at least one of this week’s texts: a lock (something you don’t fully grasp, and why) and a key (a non-obvious insight that is not the text’s central claim). Give page references.
In Fact, Fiction, and Forecast (Harvard University Press), ch. 3
Section IV, parts I & II; Section V, parts I & II
Lecture Mon 28 Sep · Seminar Thu 1 Oct · Guido Bacciagaluppi & Marina Passaro
Deadline 22:00, as an anonymised PDF (no name) via Brightspace. Revised version possible until Friday 2 October, 18:00. Two paragraphs of 150–200 words on at least one of this week’s texts: a lock (something you don’t fully grasp, and why) and a key (a non-obvious insight that is not the text’s central claim). Give page references.
Erkenntnis 2 (1932); transl. A. Pap in A.J. Ayer (ed.), Logical Positivism (Free Press 1959)
Lecture Mon 5 Oct · Seminar Thu 8 Oct · Guido Bacciagaluppi & Marina Passaro
Deadline 22:00, as an anonymised PDF (no name) via Brightspace. Revised version possible until Friday 9 October, 18:00. Two paragraphs of 150–200 words on at least one of this week’s texts: a lock (something you don’t fully grasp, and why) and a key (a non-obvious insight that is not the text’s central claim). Give page references.
In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (University of Chicago Press), ch. IX
In The Essential Tension (University of Chicago Press), pp. 320–339
Lecture Mon 2 Nov · Seminar Thu 5 Nov · Guido Bacciagaluppi & Marina Passaro
Deadline 22:00, as an anonymised PDF (no name) via Brightspace. Revised version possible until Friday 6 November, 18:00. One question about one or more of the readings, with motivation: 300–400 words, no needless summary. See Lipton’s “Writing philosophy” and the tips for discussion questions on Brightspace.
In M.S. Morgan & M. Morrison (eds.), Models as Mediators (Cambridge University Press), pp. 38–65
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 15, pp. 85–117
Two pages of advice on writing philosophy essays, just as useful for the weekly assignments. On Brightspace, in the same file as the guidelines and tips for writing a discussion question.