Part II Epistemology and Metaphysics of Science
Laws of Nature
Week 2: Causation
- Hume, D. (1902). An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Project Gutenberg. $\S$VII.
Week 3: Laws
- Bird, A. (2007). Nature’s Metaphysics: Laws and Properties. Oxford University Press. Chapters 1 and 9.
Reductionism
Week 4: Nagelian Reduction
- Dizadji-Bahmani, F., Frigg, R., and Hartmann, S. (2010). Who’s Afraid of Nagelian Reduction? Erkenntnis, 73(3), 393–412.
Pragmatism
Week 5: Peirce
- Peirce, C. S. (1877). The Fixation of Belief. Popular Science Monthly, 12, 1–15.
- Peirce, C. S. (1878). How to Make Our Ideas Clear. Popular Science Monthly, 12, 286–302.
Week 6: Dewey
- Dewey, J. (1939). Logic: The Theory of Inquiry. New York: Henry Holt and Company. Chapter 6 (‘The Pattern of Inquiry’, pp. 101–119).
Realism
Week 7: Perspectival Truth
- Massimi, M. (2018). Four Kinds of Perspectival Truth. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 96(2), 342–359.