General Science
Video Lectures - Philosophy of Science
Publisher: Teaching Company, 2005, 36pp, 1st ed.
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.
Lectures
| 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 |