Strange beautiful grass of green: LMU Summer 2015 “The Semantics of Scientific Theories”

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Dr. Erik Curiel
email: erik.curiel@lmu.de
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Course Summary
Schedule of Lectures and Associated Readings

Study Questions for Lectures
Readings

© Elizabeth Chiles 2009

R. Carnap, “Empiricism, Semantics and Ontology” (Supplement A in his Meaning and Necessity, second ed.)
R. Carnap, “The Methodological Character of Theoretical Concepts” (in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 1, 1956)
R. Carnap, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science: Philosophical Foundations of Physics, chs. 23–26
N. da Costa and S. French, Science and Partial Truth: A Unitary Approach to Models and Scientific Reasoning
M. Friedman, The Dynamics of Reason
C. Hempel, The Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel: Studies in Science, Explanation and Rationality
M. Massimi, “From Data to Phenomena: A Kantian Stance”
F. Ramsey, The Foundations of Mathematics and Other Logical Essays
B. Russell, The Analysis of Matter
H. Stein, “Was Carnap Entirely Wrong, After All?”, Synthese, 1992, 93:275–295.
H. Stein, “Some Reflections on the Structure of Our Knowledge in Physics”, in eds. Prawitz, D. and B. Skyrms and D. Westerståhl, Logic, Metholodogy and Philosophy of Science, New York: Elsevier Science B.V., 1994, 633–655. Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science
H. Stein, “The Enterprise of Understanding and the Enterprise of Knowledge”, Synthese, 2004, 140:135–176
P. Suppes, Studies in the Methodology and Foundations of Science: Selected Papers from 1951 to 1969 (Springer, 1969)
P. Suppes, Models and Methods in the Philosophy OF Science: Selected Essays (Springer, 1993)
P. Suppes, Representation and Invariance of Scientific Structures (CSLI Publications: Stanford, 2002)
A. Tarski, Logic, Semantics, Metamathematics: Papers from 1923 to 1938 (Clarendon Press, 1956)
J. Woodward, “Data and Phenomena: A Restatement and Defense”, Synthese, 2011, 182:165–179

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