Philosophy of Science

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36 lectures (30 min. ea).
"Course no. 4100"--Disc label.
Compact discs.
"Course no. 4100."
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 verifyability -- 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.
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 -- Lecture 19. Putting the cause back in "because" -- Lecture 20. Probability, pragmatics, and unification -- Lecture 21. Laws and regularities -- Lecture 22. Laws and necessity -- Lecture 23. Reduction and progress -- Lecture 24. Reduction and physicalism.
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 -- Lecture 31. Bayesianism -- Lecture 32. Problems with Bayesianism -- Lecture 33. Entropy and explanation -- Lecture 34. Species and reality -- Lecture 35. The elimination of persons? -- Lecture 36. Philosophy and science.
Lecturer, Jeffrey L. Kasser.
A survey course of 36 Lectures on topics in the philosophy of science, presented by Jeffrey L. Kasser, Teaching Assistant Professor of Philosophy at North Carolina State University.

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