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)