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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

SALON I SCHEDULE:

Friday

  • 6pm Check in and arrival at Huntington Lodge (HL)
  • 6:30pm Dinner & orientation: Philo Sophia: A Contour of the Discipline

Saturday

  • 7:30 - 8:30am Breakfast at HL
  • 8:30 - 10am Presentation, The Ancients
  • 10 - 12:30pm Dialectical examination of the readings
  • 12 - 2pm Lunch & free time
  • 2 - 3:30pm Presentation, Going Medieval
  • 3:30 - 4:30pm Dialectical examination of the readings
  • 4:30 - 6pm Presentation, 17th - 18th Century Modern Philosophy
  • 6 - 7pm Dinner at HL
  • 7pm Turing Test: The imitation game

Sunday

  • 7:30 - 8:30am Breakfast at HL
  • 8:30 - 9:30am Presentation, 19th Century Modern Philosophy
  • 9:30 - 10:30am Dialectical examination of the readings
  • 12pm Lunch, planning for section II and departure

(12 contact hours)

 SALON II SCHEDULE: Friday
  • 6pm Check in and arrival at Huntington Lodge (HL)
  • 6:30pm Dinner & Program, A Transcendental Legacy: Mythos of a Landscape

Saturday

  • 7:30 - 8:30am Breakfast at HL
  • 8:30 - 10am Student-led discussion of the readings
  • 10 - 11:30am Student-led discussion of the readings
  • 12 - 1pm Lunch
  • 1 - 2pm Presentation, Towards Landscape Ontology, a Preliminary
  • 2 - 4pm Written exercise & discussion 
  • 5:30pm Dinner at HL
  • 7:00pm High Stakes Philosophical Trivia

Sunday

  • 7:30 - 8:30am Breakfast at HL
  • 8:30 - 10:30pm Read and respond to a contemporary journal article "
  • 10:30 - 12pm Postscript and discussion of the application of the philosophy of science
  • 12:30pm Lunch & departure

 (12 contact hours)


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