Logic & Philosophy of Science

Course Description


Course:  LPS 221;Phil 221
Name:  Topics in Epistemology
Description:  This is a reding seminar on epistemology with a particular focus on the epistemology of science. We will read on average two papers or a short book per week. The reading list will include Peirce, Schlick, Carnap, Hempel, Popper, Quine, Kuhn, Putnam, van Fraassen, Sklar, and Laudan. Many of the papers we will read are in the MIT anthology *The Philosophy of Science*, Boyd et al. eds (1999).