material for courses
SLU graduate seminar
Class schedule
Monday 3.30--5.15 pm
Wednesday 6.00--7.45 pm
Friday 9.00--10.45 am
Location: Philosophy Seminar Room
Please see link below for further details:
Provisional seminar program v.1.4 (this keeps being updated as we go along)
Papers for seminar 1 --- Universals and properties (zipped file)
Papers for seminar 2 --- The nature of universals (zipped file)
Papers for seminar 3 --- Dispositions and powers (zipped file)
Papers for seminar 4 --- Laws of nature (zipped file)
Papers for seminar 5 --- Natural kinds and universals (zipped file)
Papers for seminar 6 --- Essentialism and natural kinds (zipped file)
Papers for seminar 7 --- Emergence (zipped file)
Preliminary reading for part II --- The Epistemology of Science
Papers for seminar 8 --- The aim of science and the nature scientific progress (zipped file) (for W. September 21)
Papers for seminar 9 --- The pessimistic meta-induction (zipped file) (for M. September 26)
Papers for seminar 10 --- Evidence (zipped file) (for W. September 28)
Papers for seminar 11 --- Inference to the best explanation (zipped file) (for F. September 30)
Papers for seminar 12 --- Science as social (zipped file) (for M. October 3)
Papers for seminar 13 --- Bayesianism (zipped file) (for W. October 5)
Papers for seminar 14 --- Justification and confirmation (zipped file) (for M. October 10)
Papers for seminar 15 --- Empiricism (zipped file) (for W. October 12)