HPS 1702 Junior/Senior Seminar for HPS Majors
HPS 1703 Writing Workshop for HPS Majors
Schedule Spring term 2014
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| Week | Date | Topic | Class discussion | Reading for this week | Assignments due this week |
| 1 | 6 January | Introduction Philosophy of Science: the point of intractability. |
Introduce yourself. | Point of Intractability. | |
| 2 | 13 January | History of Science: sources and context. Slides |
Your example of a point of intractability. | (As background: John D. Norton, "Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity and the Problems in the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies that Led him to it.") | 1. A Point of Intractability. |
| 20 January | No classes. Martin Luther King Day. | ||||
| 3 | 27 January | A little survey of inductive inference. Slides Evidence for the Basic Principles of Science |
Your example of a historical correction. | John D. Norton, "A Little Survey of Induction". Evidence for the Basic Principles of Science |
2. An Historical Correction. |
| 4 | 3 February | Enumerative Induction. Slides Curie's induction. The material theory of induction. Slides |
Your example of an enumerative induction. | Sections 1 and 2 only of John D. Norton, A Survey of Inductive Generalization. 1. The Material Theory of Induction Stated and Illustrated.This is chapter 1 of a book draft and uses Curie's induction on the crystal structure of radium chloride as its central case. |
3. An Enumerative Inductive Inference A. Short history of science paper |
| 5 | 10 February | Reproducibility of Experiment Repeatability and Reproducibility Four case studies |
Your example of reproducibility. | 3. Reproducibility of Experiment | 4. An Example of Reproducibility |
| 6 | 17 February | Analogy. |
Your example of an analogy. | 4. Analogy |
5 An Analogy |
| 7 | 24 February | Simplicity. Text. Powerpoint. |
Your example of simplicity. | 6. Simplicity as a Surrogate. | 6. Simplicity B. Long history of science paper. |
| 8 | 3 March | Scholarly publishing. Slides The discipline. Slides Giving a talk. |
The experience of peer review. | ||
| 10 March | Spring recess. | ||||
| 9 | 17 March | Presentations. Everyone: 5 minute warm up presentation. |
Prepare 5 minute presentation. |
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| 10 | 24 March | Presentations. 1. Simon Brown 2. Colette McNeela 3. Casey Allen 4. Gina Droeder |
Questions to presenters. Guidelines. | ||
| 11 | 31 March | Presentations. 1. James Urban 2. Ron Chunn, Jr 3. Maggie Klee 4. Michael Arkwright |
Questions to presenters. Guidelines | ||
| 12 | 7 April | Presentations. 1. Gregory Simchick 2. Kira Landauer 3. David Palm 4. Sean Champagne 5. Michael Arkwright |
Questions to presenters. Guidelines | E. First draft of term paper. Swap draft with your assigned editor. | |
| 13 | 14 April | Presentations. 1. Alex Kruszewski 2. Beverly Hersh 3. Christina Mihok 4. Natalie Boyanovsky 5. Kristen Rogers |
Questions to presenters. Guidelines |
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| 14 | 18 April, Last day class | F. Final, revised version of term paper due Friday April 18. |