Philosophy 160

Philosophy 160

First exam review

Lauden assignment

Second exam review

Sokal Hoax assignment

Links:

Astronomy notes: http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conWebDoc.13858/setPaginate/No

Orders of magnitude: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petawatt#Petawatt

Boghossian, Paul. "What the Sokal Hoax Ought to Teach us": http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/boghossian/papers/bog_tls.html

Bird, Alexander. SEP entry on Thomas Kuhn: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thomas-kuhn/

Darwin, Charles. The Origin of Species: http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/charles_darwin/origin_of_species/index.shtml

Darwin's Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection. A Primer courtesy of the University of Michigan: http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange1/current/lectures/selection/selection.html

Einstein, Albert. "Relativity, the Special and General Theory": http://www.bartleby.com/173/

Gould, Steven J., "Evolution as Fact and Theory": http://www.stephenjaygould.org/library/gould_fact-and-theory.html

Hardcastle, Gary. "Themes in Contemporary Analytic Philosophy as Reflected in the Work of Monty Python:: http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~ebarnes/python/python.htm

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2001 report: http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/

The Jibsheet. Evolution vs, Intelligent design:

http://www.bcc.ctc.edu/thejibsheet/Default.aspx?volume=60&issue=05&sectionId=3&storyId=3

http://www.bcc.ctc.edu/thejibsheet/Default.aspx?volume=60&issue=06&sectionId=5&storyId=1

Elizabeth Kolbert: The Climate of Man: http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/37/11615

Thomas Kuhn: Stanford Encyclopedia Article by Alexander Bird: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thomas-kuhn/

Kuhn notes: http://philosophy.wisc.edu/forster/220/kuhn.htm

Outline of Structure of Scientific Revolutions: http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/Kuhn.html

Payne, W. Russ, "What a Law of Nature is": http://libarts.wsu.edu/philo/events/Law of Nature.htm

Payne, W. Russ, "Diversity and the Socratic Method": http://facweb.bcc.ctc.edu/wpayne/diversity_and_the_socratic_metho.htm

Pierce, Charles Sanders, "The Fixation of Belief": http://www.peirce.org/writings/p107.html

Popper, Karl. SEP entry by Stephen Thornton: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper/

Popper, Karl. "Science as Falsification": http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/popper_falsification.html

Sokal, Alan. Links to reading on the Sokal hoax: http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/#debate_linguafranca

Russell, Bertrand: Russell, from Problems of Philosophy

olds stuff:

Creationism/Sokal questions