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6 DVD's (1080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 219 pages ; 19 cm). |
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digital |
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video file |
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DVD video |
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The great courses, philosophy & intellectual history
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Great courses (DVD). Philosophy & intellectual history.
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DVD. |
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"Course no. 4100." |
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Thirty-six lectures (30 min. each). |
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Three part set in three containers. |
Contents |
Part 1 : Lecture 1. Science and philosophy -- lecture 2. Popper and the problem of demarcation -- lecture 3. Further thoughts on demarcation -- lecture 4. Einstein, measurement, and meaning -- lecture 5. Classical empiricism -- lecture 6. Logical positivism and verifiability -- lecture 7. Logical positivism, science, and meaning -- lecture 8. Holism -- lecture 9. Discovery and justification -- lecture 10. Induction as illegitimate -- lecture 11. Some solutions and a new riddle -- lecture 12. Instances and consequences. |
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Part 2 : Lecture 13. Kuhn and the challenge of history -- lecture 14. Revolutions and rationality -- lecture 15. Assessment of Kuhn -- lecture 16. For and against method lecture 17. Sociology, postmodernism, and science wars -- lecture 18. (How) does science explain? -- lecture 19. Putting the cause back in "because" -- lecture 20. Probability, pragmatics, and unification -- lecture 21. Laws and regularities -- lecture 22. Laws and necessity -- lecture 23. Reduction and progress -- lecture 24. Reduction and physicalism. |
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Part 3 : Lecture 25. New views of meaning and reference -- lecture 26. Scientific realism -- lecture 27. Success, experience, and explanation -- lecture 28. Realism and naturalism -- lecture 29. Values and objectivity -- lecture 30. Probability -- lecture 31. Bayesianism -- lecture 32. Problems with Bayesianism -- lecture 33. Entropy and explanation -- lecture 34. Species and reality -- lecture 35. The elimination of persons? -- lecture 36. Philosophy and science. |
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Lectures by Jeffrey L. Kasser, Teaching Assistant Professor of philosophy at North Carolina State University. |
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Science -- Philosophy.
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Science -- Philosophy. |
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Empiricism.
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Empiricism. |
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Video recordings.
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Video recordings.
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Educational films.
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Educational films.
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Teaching Company.
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ISBN |
1598032399 |
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9781598032390 |
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PD4100-01 Teaching Company |
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PD4100-02 Teaching Company |
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PD4100-03 Teaching Company |
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