Lecture outlines

  • September 18: Kuhn chapter 1
  • September 20: Kuhn chapter 2
  • September 25: Copernican astronomy (from Kuhn chapter 5)
  • October 2: Aspects of the relationships between astronomy, physics and religion
  • October 4: From Copernicus to Newton
  • October 9: Inductivism and the problem of induction
  • October 23: Falsificationism
  • November 1: Science and pseudoscience
  • November 6: Creation-science
  • November 13: Rationality and revolutions
  • November 20: Underdetermination and the pessimistic meta-induction
  • November 27: Instrumentalism, logical positivism, observability
  • November 29: Constructive empiricism
  • December 4: Explanation
  • December 11: The no-miracles argument