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Why Philosophers Care What Scientists Mean:
Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
EFB 796 /EFB 797 (Course# 11556)
1 Credit Hour

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Pre-Semester Reading:

• Lipton, P (The Medawar Lecture 2004) “The truth about science” in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of Biological Sciences.  2005 June 29; 360(1458): 1259-1269

 
Primary reading:
Salon I: (Sections designated by instructor)

• Kuhn, Thomas S. (1996).  The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

• Schlick, M. (1932). Positivism and Realism.  In Philosophy of Science (R. Boyd, P. Gasper & J.D. Trout, Ed.). Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997. pp. 37 – 54.
• http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~paulsko/papers/Schlick.pdf

 
Salon II: (Sections designated by instructor)

• Popper, K.  (1999) The Logic of Scientific Discovery.  Padstow, Cornwall: TJ International Limited.  (Original work published 1934)

 
Journal:

• Philosophy of Science.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press.  Current volume
• Available through Syracuse University E-Journal Locator http://library.syr.edu/index.html

 
Contextual readings:

• Berkeley, G. (1965). Berkeley’s Philosophical Writings, (D. Armstrong, Ed.).  New York:  Collier Books. (Original work published 1713)
• http://berkeley.classicauthors.net/ThreeDialogueuesBetweenHylasAndPhilonous/ThreeDialogueuesBetweenHylasAndPhilonous2.html
• Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous, p. 135 – 171
• Descartes, R. (1979).  Meditations on First Philosophy, (D. A. Cress, Trans.). Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. (Original work published 1641)
• http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/descartes/meditations/meditations.html
• Meditation Two:  Concerning the Nature of the Human Mind:  That the Mind is More Known Than the Body, p. 17 – 23
• Heidegger, M.  (1962). Being and Time, (J. Macquarrie & E. Robinson, Trans.).   New York, NY: Harper & Row. 
• Introduction I The Necessity, Structure, and Priority of the Question of Being, p. 21 – 28
• (a) Reality as a problem of Being, and whether the ‘External World’ can be Proved, p. 246 – 252

• Kant, I.   Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science.
• http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=361&Itemid=27

• Kant, I.  (1929). Critique of Pure Reason, (N. Kemp Smith, Trans.).   New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press. (Original work published 1781) 
• http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/~ppp/cpr/toc.html
• Introduction Sections I & III, p. 41 – 43 & 45 – 48
• Transcendental Aesthetic, p. 82 – 91
• Chapter III Section 4, p. 500 – 507
• Refutation of Idealism, p. 244

• Mill, J. S.  (2006). An Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy, (J. M. Robson, Ed.). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
• http://oll.libertyfund.org/Home3/Book.php?recordID=1256
• Chapter X – XII, p. 149 – 209

Recommended Reading:

• Avenarius, R.  The Two Axioms of Empirio-Criticism.  Excerpted from Critique of Pure Experience.
• http://radicalacademy.com/adiphiloessay192.htm

• Comte, A.  The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte, (H. Martineau Trans.) New York, NY:  Calvin Blanchard. (Original work published 1855)
• http://radicalacademy.com/adiphiloessay42.htm
• Einstein, A., B. Podolsky, and N. Rosen.  (1935). Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete? Princeton, New Jersey: Institute for Advanced Study.
• http://prola.aps.org/pdf/PR/v47/i10/p777_1
• Helge Kragh.  Max Planck: The Reluctant revolutionary Physicsweb Feature: December 2000
• http://www.physicsweb.org/articles/world/13/12/8/1
• Mach, E. (1882). The Economical Nature of Physical Inquiry. In Popular Scientific Lectures, (T.J. McCormack, Trans.)  Chicago: Open Court, 1910. pp. 186-213.
• Vaihinger, H. (1952). The philosophy of "as if" (C. K. Ogden, Trans.). London: Routledge. (Original English work published 1924)