Philosophy of Science

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Part 1: Disc 1. Lecture 1. Science and philosophy ; Lecture 2. Popper and the problem of demarcation ; Lecture 3. Further thoughts on demarcation ; Lecture 4. Einstein, measurement, and meaning ; Lecture 5. Classical empiricism ; Lecture 6. Logical positivism and verifiability -- Disc 2. Lecture 7. Logical positivism, science, and meaning ; Lecture 8. Holism ; Lecture 9. Discovery and justification ; Lecture 10. Induction as illegitimate ; Lecture 11. Some solutions and a new riddle ; Lecture 12. Instances and consequences.
Part 2: Disc 3. Lecture 13. Kuhn and the challenge of history ; Lecture 14. Revolutions and rationality ; Lecture 15. Assessment of Kuhn ; Lecture 16. For and against method ; Lecture 17. Sociology, postmodernism, and science wars ; Lecture 18. (How) does science explain? -- Disc 4. Lecture 18. Putting the cause back in "because" ; Lecture 19. Probability, pragmatics, and unification ; Lecture 20. Laws and regularities ; Lecture 21. Laws and necessity ; Lecture 22. Reduction and progress ; Lecture 23. Reduction and physicalism.
Part 3: Disc 5. Lecture 25. New views of meaning and reference ; Lecture 26. Scientific realism ; Lecture 27. Success, experience, and explanation ; Lecture 28. Realism and naturalism ; Lecture 29. Values and objectivity ; Lecture 30. Probability -- Disc 6. Lecture 31. Bayesianism ; Lecture 32. Problems with Bayesianism ; Lecture 33. Entropy and explanation ; Lecture 34. Species and reality ; Lecture 35. Elimination of persons? ; Lecture 36. Philosophy and science.
Lecturer: Jeffrey L. Kasser, North Carolina State University.
Presents lectures (each 30 minutes in length) by Professor Jeffrey L. Kasser on the philosophy of science.
DVD, NTSC.

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