Strange beautiful grass of green: LMU Winter 2016 “The Semantics and Structure of Scientific Theories”

Hand-Written Outline for Lecture 1, “Introduction and Background”
Hand-Written Outline for Lecture 2, “Russell, Ramsey and the Roots of Structuralism: The Analysis of Matter”
Hand-Written Outline for Lecture 3–6, “Carnap: ESO and The Methodological Character of Theoretical Concepts”
Hand-Written Outline for Lecture 7, “Hempel on Carnap: On the Standard Conception of Scientific Theories”
Hand-Written Outline for Lecture 8, “Suppes: Uses and Meanings of Models in the Empirical Sciences, and Data Models”
Hand-Written Outline for Lecture 9, “van Fraassen: The Scientific Image”
Hand-Written Outline for Lecture 10, “Halvorson: What Theories Could Not Be”
Typed (!) Outline for Lecture 11, “da Costa and French: Science and Partial Truth: A Unitary Approach to Models and Scientific Reasoning”
Hand-Written Outline for Lecture 12 (including a groovy graphic, produced by Renate Frister), “Friedman: The Dynamics of Reason”
Outline (real slides!) for Lecture 13, “Stein: Some Reflections on the Structure of Our Knowledge in Physics”
Outline (real slides!) for Lecture 14 (part 1), “Curiel: Problems with Contemporary Approaches to Theory Semantics”
Outline (real slides!) for Lecture 14 (part 2), “Curiel: Propriety as a Basis for the Semantics of Theories”

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
B. Demopoulos, “Notes on Putnam's Model-Theoretic Argument”
M. Friedman, The Dynamics of Reason
C. Hempel, “Formulation and Formalization of Scientific Theories: A Summary Abstract—Discussion”, (in The Structure of Scientific Theories, ed. F. Suppe, pp. 255–265)
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, a selection of particularly relevant passages from “Was Carnap Entirely Wrong, After All?”
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