Status
Available
Call number
Collections
Publication
The Great Courses (2006), 18 hours, 36 lectures, 226 pages
Description
Professor Jeffrey L. Kasser gives 36 lectures on the philosophy of science.
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
226 p.; 8.8 inches
Local notes
1 Science and Philosophy / 2 Popper and the Problem of Demarcation / 3 Further Thoughts on Demarcation / 4 Einstein, Measurement, and Meaning / 5 Classical Empiricism / 6 Logical Positivism and Verifiability / 7 Logical Positivism, Science, and Meaning / 8 Holism / 9 Discovery and Justification / 10 Induction as Illegitimate / 11 Some Solutions and a New Riddle / 12 Instances and Consequences / 13 Kuhn and the Challenge of History / 14 Revolutions and Rationality / 15 Assessment of Kuhn / 16 For and Against Method / 17 Sociology, Postmodernism, and Science Wars / 18 (How) Does Science Explain? / 19 Putting the Cause Back in "Because" / 20 Probability, Pragmatics, and Unification / 21 Laws and Regularities / 22 Laws and Necessity / 23 Reduction and Progress / 24 Reduction and Physicalism / 25 New Views of Meaning and Reference / 26 Scientific Realism / 27 Success, Experience, and Explanation / 28 Realism and Naturalism / 29 Values and Objectivity / 30 Probability / 31 Bayesianism / 32 Problems with Bayesianism / 33 Entropy and Explanation / 34 Species and Reality / 35 The Elimination of Persons? / 36 Philosophy and Science