Science and the World: Philosophical Approaches

ISBN-13: 9781551116242 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 566 str.

Jeffrey E. Foss

Opis

The essential readings in this anthology examine not only scientific practice, but also the relationship between science and our ethical and religious beliefs.

Spis treści

Introduction for Students
Introduction for Instructors

SECTION ONE
Science and Method: From Proof to Models

Introduction

1. Isaac Newton, Newton on Scientific Method
2. David Hume, “Skeptical Doubts Concerning the Operations of the Understanding”
3. Carl G. Hempel, “Scientific Inquiry: Invention and Test”
4. Israel Scheffler, “Explanation”
5. Karl Popper, “The Problem of Induction”
6. Thomas Kuhn, from The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
7. Sandra Harding, “Why ‘Physics’ Is a Bad Model for Physics”
8. Ronald Giere, “The Feminism Question in the Philosophy of Science”
9. Susan Haack, “Nail Soup: A Brief, Opinionated History of the Old Deferentialism”
10. Jeffrey Foss, “Science, Maps, and Models”
11. Bas van Fraassen, “Arguments Concerning Scientific Realism”
12. Paul Churchland, “Theoretical Science, Creativity, and Reaching behind the Appearances”
13. Kent A. Peacock, “Realism in a Quantum World”

SECTION TWO
Science, Religion, and Ethics: Our Relationships to the World

Introduction

14. Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina
15. Extracts from The Book of Genesis
16. Patricia Smith Churchland, “Religion and the Brain”
17. Henry M. Morris, Extracts from Scientific Creationism
18. Michael Ruse, “Creationism Considered”
19. Daniel C. Dennett, Extracts from Darwin’s Dangerous Idea
20. Edward O. Wilson, “Heredity” and Michael Ruse and Edward O. Wilson, “The Evolution of Ethics”
21. Steven Pinker, “Psychological Correctness”
22. Richard Dawkins, “What’s Wrong with Cloning?”
23. David Tracy, “Human Cloning and the Public Realm: A Defense of Intuitions of the Good”
24. Philip Kitcher, “Whose Self Is It, Anyway?”
25. Karen Green and John Bigelow, “Does Science Persecute Women? The Case of the 16th-17th Century Witch-Hunts”

DICTIONARY

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