Jan. 12 | Introductory Meeting, No Reading. | No seminar scheduled. |
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Jan. 19 | Hempel ‘The Theoretician's Dilemma ’, §§1-6. | No seminar scheduled. |
Jan. 26 | Hempel ‘The Theoretician's Dilemma’, §§7-end. | Atoosa Kasirzadeh. |
Feb. 2 | Maxwell ‘The Ontological Status of Theoretical Entities’ | Gary Graham and Nir Av-Gay. |
Feb. 9 | van Fraassen The Scientific Image, chs. 1-2.5 | Atoosa Kasirzadeh (ch. 1). |
Feb. 16 | van Fraassen The Scientific Image, chs. 2.5-3 | Daniel Munro (end of ch. 2); Markus Alliksaar (ch. 3); Eamon Darnell (ch. 3). |
Mar. 2 | Laudan ‘A Confutation of Scientific Realism’ | Aaron Kenna. |
Mar. 9 | Cartwright The Dappled World, Introduction and ch. 1. | Nir Av-Gay; Aaron Lepp. |
Mar. 16 | Cartwright The Dappled World, Chs. 2 and 3. | Daniel Munro (ch. 2); Eamon Darnell (ch. 3). |
Mar. 23 | Newman ‘Mr. Russell's Causal Theory of Perception’ and Demopoulos and Friedman ‘Bertrand Russell's The Analysis of Matter: Its Historical Context and Contemporary Interest’. | Aaron Kenna (Newman); Aaron Lepp (Demopoulos and Friedman). |
Mar. 30 | French and Ladyman ‘In Defence of Ontic Structural Realism’ and van Fraassen ‘Structuralism(s) about Science: Some Common Problems’. | Amogha Sahu (French and Ladyman); Markus Alliksaar (Van Fraassen). |
Apr. 6 | Strawson ‘Real Materialism’. | Amogha Sahu; Gary Graham. |
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