Topics to Study for Final Exam
Worldviews Jigsaw Puzzles
Nature of truth - Correspondence or Coherence
Empirical Facts and Philosophical Facts
Confirming and Disconfirming Evidence and Reasoning
The Quine-Duhem Thesis
Problems and Puzzles of Induction - Hume, Hempel, Gooodman
Falsifiability
-Popper
Instrumentalism and Realism
Aristotle's Worldview
Aristotle's Philosophy of Science
Logic - Induction and Deduction
Pythagorean Orientation
- Plato
Saving the Appearances
Development of Aristotle's Method
Ptolemy - Geocentrism
Robert Grossteste
John Duns Scotus
Roger Bacon
William of Ockham
Nicholas Copernicus - Heliocentrism
Johannes Kepler
Galileo Galilei - Importance of Experimentation
Francis Bacon
Rene Descartes
Isaac Newton - New Worldview which replaced Aristotle's
Positivism and Conventionalism
Bishop Berkeley
Ernst Mach
Henri Poincare
Karl Popper
Thomas Kuhn - Scientific Revolutions
Pathological Science
Junk Science
Pseudoscience - Several examples and Warning Signs
Evolution by Natural Selection
Scientific Creationism - e.g. Intelligent Design
Reductionism vs Emergence (Holism)
