History and Philosophy of Science

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Epstein, The Ant Trap
TBA, selections from Ch. 10-16

Epstein, The Ant Trap
Ch. 5-9

Epstein, The Ant Trap
Ch. 1-4

de Regt, Understanding Scientific Understanding
Ch. 5-7
Choose the case study that is most interesting to you. Gary, Babak, and Noel will lead a discussion of each chapter.

de Regt, Understanding Scientific Understanding
Chapter 4

NOTE SPECIAL DATE
de Regt, Understanding Scientific Understanding
Chapter 2 (Chapter 3 optional)

We will read Alexander Reutlinger and Juha Saatsi (eds.) Explanation Beyond Causation (Oxford, 2018), Chapers 5 and 6 (by Michael Strevens and Jim Woodward, respectively).
We will meet from 6:30-8:00 p.m. at the Consortium (431 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia).   Pizza and soda will be served.

We will read Alexander Reutlinger and Juha Saatsi (eds.) Explanation Beyond Causation (Oxford, 2018), Chapers 7 and 8 (by Alisa Bokulich and Mazviita Chirimuuta, respectively).
We will meet from 6:30-8:00 p.m. at the Consortium (431 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia).   Pizza and soda will be served.
 

This Spring we will read Alexander Reutlinger and Juha Saatsi (eds.) Explanation Beyond Causation (Oxford, 2018). (This came in second in our voting last summer). For February 13, please read the Introduction and Chapters 1-3 (about 70 pages total). (I will not be circulating PDFs, but have no objection if someone else wants to.) Noel Swanson will lead the discussion.
We will meet from 6:30-8:00 p.m. at the Consortium (431 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia).   Pizza and soda will be served.
 

We will be reading Anya Plutynski's Explaining Cancer: Finding Order in Disorder (Oxford, 2018) Chapters 5, 6, and Conclusion. Anya Plutynski will Skype in for the discussion.

We will be reading Anya Plutynski's Explaining Cancer: Finding Order in Disorder (Oxford, 2018) Chapters 3 and 4. Ashley Inglehart will open the discussion.

We will be discussing Anya Plutynski's Explaining Cancer: Finding Order in Disorder (Oxford, 2018), Introduction and Chapters 1 and 2. Nabeel Hamid will open the discussion.

This Spring, we read Lena Soler, Emiliano Trizio, and Andrew Pickering, eds., Science as it Could Have Been (Pittsburgh, 2015).  For our April 11 meeting, please read Chapters 12 ("The Science of Mind as It Could Have Been, by Bitbol and Petitmengen) and 14 ("On the Plurality of (Theoretical) World," by Levy-LeBlond). Iaan Reynolds (Villanova) will introduce ch. 12, and Noel Swanson (Delaware) ch. 14.

This Spring, we read Lena Soler, Emiliano Trizio, and Andrew Pickering, eds., Science as it Could Have Been (Pittsburgh, 2015).  For our March 14 meeting, please read Chapters 3, 4, and 6, by Pickering, Trizio, and Collins respectively. Tawrin Baker (UPenn) introduced the readings.

This Spring we will be reading:
Lena Soler, Emiliano Trizio, and Andrew Pickering, eds., Science as it Could
Have Been (Pittsburgh, 2015). For the first meeting, please read Chapters 1 and 2.
Noel Swanson (U of Delaware) lead the discussion.

Chapters 9 and 10 and Conclusion of About Method
Jutta Schickore (Indiana) joined the group for the final discussion of her book.

Chapters 5-8 of About Method.  The discussion was opened by Tawrin Baker (UPenn)

Introduction and Chapters 1-4 of Jutta Schickore's About Method: Experimenters, Snake Venom, and the History of Writing Scientifically (Chicago, 2017).  The discussion was opened by Miriam Solomon.

Reading: Creating Consilience, chs. 19, Sugiyama and Sugyama, "Monster Stories," and 22, "Language, Cognition, and Literature." The "Afterword" is also recommended. Devin Curry opened the discussion.