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Philosophy of Science (Audiobook)

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"Science can't be free of philosophy any more than baseball can be free of physics." With this bold intellectual swing for the fences, philosopher Jeffrey L. Kasser launches an ambitious and exciting inquiry into what makes science science, using the tools of philosophy to ask:
[list][*]Why is science so successful?
[*]Is there such a thing as the scientific method?
[*]How do we distinguish science from pseudoscience?
[*]Is science rational, cumulative, and progressive?
[/list]Focusing his investigation on the vigorous debate over the nature of science that unfolded during the past 100 years, Professor Kasser covers important philosophers such as Karl Popper, W. V. Quine, Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, Imre Lakatos, Carl Hempel, Nelson Goodman, and Bas van Fraassen.
All of these thinkers responded in one way or another to logical positivism, the dominant movement influencing the philosophy of science during the first half of the 20 th century. Logical positivism attempted to ground science exclusively in what could be known through direct experience and logic.
It sounds reasonable, but logical positivism proved to be riddled with serious problems, and its eventual demise is an object lesson in how truly difficult it is—perhaps impossible—to secure the logical foundations of a subject that seems so unassailably logical: science.
[b]Course Lecture Titles[/b]
[list][*]1. Science and Philosophy
[*]2. Popper and the Problem of Demarcation
[*]3. Further Thoughts on Demarcation
[*]4. Einstein, Measurement, and Meaning
[*]5. Classical Empiricism
[*]6. Logical Positivism and Verifiability
[*]7. Logical Positivism, Science, and Meaning
[*]8. Holism
[*]9. Discovery and Justification
[*]10. Induction as Illegitimate
[*]11. Some Solutions and a New Riddle
[*]12. Instances and Consequences
[*]13. Kuhn and the Challenge of History
[*]14. Revolutions and Rationality
[*]15. Assessment of Kuhn
[*]16. For and Against Method
[*]17. Sociology, Postmodernism, and Science Wars
[*]18. (How) Does Science Explain?
[*]19. Putting the Cause Back in "Because"
[*]20. Probability, Pragmatics, and Unification
[*]21. Laws and Regularities
[*]22. Laws and Necessity
[*]23. Reduction and Progress
[*]24. Reduction and Physicalism
[*]25. New Views of Meaning and Reference
[*]26. Scientific Realism
[*]27. Success, Experience, and Explanation
[*]28. Realism and Naturalism
[*]29. Values and Objectivity
[*]30. Probability
[*]31. Bayesianism
[*]32. Problems with Bayesianism
[*]33. Entropy and Explanation
[*]34. Species and Reality
[*]35. The Elimination of Persons?
[*]36. Philosophy and Science
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