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Author Kasser, Jeffrey L.

Title Philosophy of science / taught by Jeffrey L. Kasser.

Publication Info. Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., [2006]
©2006

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 Moore Video  Q125 .K33 2006  pt.1 disc. 1-2    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
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Description 6 DVD's (1080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 219 pages ; 19 cm).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description digital
optical
video file
DVD video
Series The great courses, philosophy & intellectual history
Great courses (DVD). Philosophy & intellectual history.
System Details DVD.
Note "Course no. 4100."
Thirty-six lectures (30 min. each).
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.
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.
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.
Performer Lectures by Jeffrey L. Kasser, Teaching Assistant Professor of philosophy at North Carolina State University.
Subject Science -- Philosophy.
Science -- Philosophy.
Empiricism.
Empiricism.
Genre/Form Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Educational films.
Educational films.
Added Author Teaching Company.
ISBN 1598032399
9781598032390
Music No. PD4100-01 Teaching Company
PD4100-02 Teaching Company
PD4100-03 Teaching Company