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| Material Type: | Videorecording |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Visual material |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jeffrey L Kasser; Teaching Company. |
| ISBN: | 1598032399 9781598032390 |
| OCLC Number: | 77009309 |
| Notes: | Cataloged from disc labels, containers, and accompanying course guidebooks. Course no. 4100. |
| Performer(s): | Lectures by Jeffrey L. Kasser, Teaching Assistant Professor of philosophy at North Carolina State University. |
| Description: | 6 videodiscs (18 hr.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 3 course guidebooks. |
| Details: | DVD. |
| Contents: | disc 1. Science and philosophy ; Popper and the problem of demarcation ; Further thoughts on demarcation ; Einstein, measurement, and meanng ; Classical empiricism ; Logical positivism and verifiability -- disc 2. Logical positivism, science, and meaning ;Holism ; Discovery and justification ; Induction as illigitimate ; Some solutions and a new riddle ; Instances and consequences -- disc 3. Kuhn and the challenge of history ; Revolutions and rationality ; Assessment of Kuhn ; For and against method ; Sociology, postmodernism, and science wars ; (How) does science explain? -- disc 4. Putting the cause back in "because" ; Probability, pragmatics, and unification ; Laws and regularities ; Laws and necessity ; Reduction and progress ; Reduction and physicalism -- disc 5. New views of meaning and reference ; Scientific realism ; Success, experience, and explanation ; Realism and naturalism ; Values and objectivity ; Probability -- disc 6. Bayesianism ; Problems with Bayesianism ; Entropy and explanation ; Species and reality ; The elimination of persons? ; Philosophy and science. |
| Series Title: | Great courses., Philosophy & intellectual history. |
| Responsibility: | [taught by] Jeffrey L. Kasser. |
Abstract:
Professor Jeffrey L. Kasser gives 36 lectures on the philosophy of science.
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