Philosophy of Science course
Philosophy of science: reflections
Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Mon, 04/28/2008 - 7:57pmWelcome to the public on-line forum area for Phil 310 = Bio 310 at Bryn Mawr College. This is not a required part of the course. It is, though, a way to keep course conversations going between meetings, and to do so in a way that makes our course conversations available to others who may in turn have interesting thoughts to contribute to them. I'll be posting my thoughts in progress here throughout the course, and would be delighted to have others join in.
Feel free to write about whatever has been on your mind this week. The focus of class discussion was on where we started and where we have gotten to over the course of the semester (and where that in turn might take us).Empirical Non-Foundationalism
Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Mon, 04/21/2008 - 5:12pmWelcome to the public on-line forum area for Phil 310 = Bio 310 at Bryn Mawr College. This is not a required part of the course. It is, though, a way to keep course conversations going between meetings, and to do so in a way that makes our course conversations available to others who may in turn have interesting thoughts to contribute to them. I'll be posting my thoughts in progress here throughout the course, and would be delighted to have others join in.
Feel free to write about whatever has been on your mind this week. The focus of class discussion was on From Complexity to Emergence and Beyond: Towards Empirical Non-Foundationalism as a Guide to Inquiry.Evolution and Emergence
Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Sun, 04/13/2008 - 9:54amWelcome to the public on-line forum area for Phil 310 = Bio 310 at Bryn Mawr College. This is not a required part of the course. It is, though, a way to keep course conversations going between meetings, and to do so in a way that makes our course conversations available to others who may in turn have interesting thoughts to contribute to them. I'll be posting my thoughts in progress here throughout the course, and would be delighted to have others join in.
Feel free to write about whatever has been on your mind this week. The
focus of class discussion was on Daniel Dennett's Darwin's Dangerous Idea and Steven Johnson's Emergence.
Getting it less wrong: the brain's way
Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Wed, 03/19/2008 - 2:30pmWelcome to the public on-line forum area for Phil 310 = Bio 310 at Bryn Mawr College. This is not a required part of the course. It is, though, a way to keep course conversations going between meetings, and to do so in a way that makes our course conversations available to others who may in turn have interesting thoughts to contribute to them. I'll be posting my thoughts in progress here throughout the course, and would be delighted to have others join in.
Feel free to write about whatever has been on your mind this week. The focus on class discussion was on "pragmatic multiplism" and the brain, as a way to bridge realism and constructivism.
Realism versus constructivism: beyond Popper and Kuhn
Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Mon, 03/03/2008 - 12:38pm
Philosophy of Science 2008 - Additional discussion resources
Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Sun, 02/24/2008 - 12:51pmKuhn: Paradigms, Incommensurability, and "Progess" in Science and ....
Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Wed, 02/20/2008 - 4:13pmWelcome to the public on-line forum area for Phil 310 = Bio 310 at Bryn Mawr College. This is not a required part of the course. It is, though, a way to keep course conversations going between meetings, and to do so in a way that makes our course conversations available to others who may in turn have interesting thoughts to contribute to them. I'll be posting my thoughts in progress here throughout the course, and would be delighted to have others join in.
Kuhn on science: a different frame of reference
Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Wed, 02/13/2008 - 11:11amWelcome to the public on-line forum area for Phil 310 = Bio 310 at Bryn Mawr College. This is not a required part of the course. It is, though, a way to keep course conversations going between meetings, and to do so in a way that makes our course conversations available to others who may in turn have interesting thoughts to contribute to them. I'll be posting my thoughts in progress here throughout the course, and would be delighted to have others join in.
Popper: Falsifiability and the Realism/Idealism/Instrumentalism Problems
Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Mon, 02/11/2008 - 4:37pmWelcome to the public on-line forum area for Phil 310 = Bio 310 at Bryn Mawr College. This is not a required part of the course. It is, though, a way to keep course conversations going between meetings, and to do so in a way that makes our course conversations available to others who may in turn have interesting thoughts to contribute to them. I'll be posting my thoughts in progress here throughout the course, and would be delighted to have others join in.
Feel free to write about whatever has been on your mind this week. Among the themes of class discussion was Popper's move from positivism to falsifiability, his objections to idealism and instrumentalism, and his insistence on realism.
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