required readings

• Dan Sperber (2010), "The Guru Effect."  Review of Philosophical Psychology. 1: 583-592. 
  

• Carl Hempel (1949), "The logical analysis of psychology." Reprinted in P.A. Morton (ed.) A Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind. Broadview Press.

• Goldfarb et al. (2000), "Choosing among paradigms: are rival theories of smoking incommensurable?"
  


• James tabery (2014), "The origins of the interaction debate." In Beyond Versus: The Struggle to Understand the Interaction of Nature and Nurture. MIT Press.

• Paul Thagard (1988), "Why astrology is a pseudoscience." in Klemke, Hollinger and Line (Eds). Introductory Reasings in the Philosophy of Science. Proimetheus Books: NY.
  

• Kathleen Okruhlik (1994), "Gender and the biological sciences." Reprinted in M. Curd and J.A. Cover (Eds.( The Philosophy of Science: the Central Issues. WW. Norton and Co.
  

• Fedigan, L.M. (2001) The paradox of feminist primatology. the Goddess's discipline? Creeger, Lunbeck & Schrieberger (eds) Feminist in Twentieth Century Science, Technology and Medicine. University of Chicago Press.
  

• Kata, A. (2010) A postmodern Pandora's box: Anti-vaccination information on the internet (for Nov. 24)

• Peacock, K. (forthcoming) Reticence, responsibility, and climate science: why climate scientists sometimes need to think like emergency room doctors. (for Nov 26)
  

thought probes

• For Sept. 15 -  Sperber reading.
  
• For Sept. 17 - Logical Positivism
• For Sept 29 -  Popper
  

Assignment 1-   Due Sept.23
Assignment 2 - Due Oct. 7
Assignment 3  - Due Oct. 21
Assignment 4 - Due Nov 11
Assignment 5 - Due Nov 25