科學實在論
Scientific Realism
| 節 | 週一 |
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5 13:20–14:10 | 科學實在論 YX206 3 節連堂 |
6 14:20–15:10 | |
7 15:30–16:20 |
* 根據陽明交大上課時間表所列
By completing this course, students will gain a solid background in some contemporary work in the history and philosophy of science. Students will learn about this work through a combination of reading, lecture, and discussion. And they will be asked to summarize and critically evaluate this work on midterm and final papers.
Are our best scientific theories approximately true?? Does science converge on the truth over time?? Can science give us knowledge of things we cannot see, like electrons and genes?? The scientific realism debate centers on these and other questions, and in this course, we’ll examine some recently developed positions in the debate, including deployment realism, structural realism, entity realism, and localism.
| 週次 | 主題 |
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| 第 1 週 | Introduction |
| 第 2 週 | No Class - 和平紀念日補假 |
| 第 3 週 | The historical challenge to realism 1 Laudan, Larry. 1981. A confutation of convergent realism. Philosophy of Science 48(1): 19-49. https://doi.org/10.1086/288975 (pp. 19-32) |
| 第 4 週 | The historical challenge to realism 2 Laudan, Larry. 1981. A confutation of convergent realism. Philosophy of Science 48(1): 19-49. https://doi.org/10.1086/288975 (pp. 32-49) |
| 第 5 週 | Divide et impera realism Psillos, Stathis. 1999. Scientific realism: How science tracks truth. London: Routledge. Ch. 5 (pp. 101-114, 305-306). |
| 第 6 週 | Against divide et impera realism Lyons, Timothy D. 2006. Scientific realism and the stratagema de divide et impera. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 57(3): 537-560. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axl021 |
| 第 7 週 | No Class - 兒童節及民族掃墓節調整放假 |
| 第 8 週 | Revising the divide et impera realist strategy Vickers, Peter. 2013. A confrontation of convergent realism. Philosophy of Science 80(2): 189-211. https://doi.org/10.1086/670297? |
| 第 9 週 | Against the revised divide et impera realist strategy Tulodziecki, Dana. 2017. Against selective realism(s). Philosophy of Science 84(5): 996-1007. https://doi.org/10.1086/694004 |
| 第 10 週 | Structural realism Votsis, Ioannis. 2017. Structural realism and its variants. In The Routledge handbook of scientific realism, ed. Juha Saatsi, pp. 108-119. London and New York: Routledge. |
| 第 11 週 | Against structural realism Lyons, Timothy D. 2016. Structural realism versus deployment realism: A comparative evaluation. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 59: 95-105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2016.06.006 |
| 第 12 週 | Entity realism 1 Egg, Matthias. 2017. Entity realism. In The Routledge handbook of scientific realism, ed. Juha Saatsi, pp. 108-119. London and New York: Routledge. |
| 第 13 週 | Entity realism 2 Hacking, Ian. 2009. Realism and antirealism. In Scientific Reason, pp. 129-157. Taiwan: National Taiwan University Press. |
| 第 14 週 | Localism Asay, Jamin 2019. Going local: A defense of methodological localism about scientific realism. Synthese 196(2): 587–609. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-016-1072-6 |
| 第 15 週 | Against localism Henderson, Leah 2018. Global versus local arguments for realism. In The Routledge handbook of scientific realism, ed. Juha Saatsi, pp. 151-163. London and New York: Routledge. |
| 第 16 週 | Catch up and conclude |
| 第 17 週 | NYCU/CCU midterm paper workshop (time and place to be determined) |
| 第 18 週 | NYCU/CCU midterm paper workshop (time and place to be determined) |
See the course schedule for weekly readings.