Strange beautiful grass of green: LMU Summer 2022 “Evidence”

Lecture 1, Introduction (27. April 2022): Lecture Notes
Lecture 2, Newton’s Investigations on Light and Color, Part i (4. May 2022):
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Lecture 3, Newton’s Investigations on Light and Color, Part ii (18. May 2022):
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Lecture 4, Newton’s Doctrine, Its Framework and Evidential Structure, and His Disputes with Pardies, Hooke and Huygens (25. May 2022):
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Lecture 5, To Confirm Frameworks and Methods (8. June 2022): Lecture Notes
Lecture 6, Perrin on the Reality of Molecules and Theory-Mediated Measurement, Part i (22. Jun 2022):
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Lecture 7, Perrin on the Reality of Molecules and Theory-Mediated Measurement, Part ii (21. July 2022): Lecture Notes
Lecture 8, Perrin on the Reality of Molecules and Theory-Mediated Measurement, Part iii (28. July 2022): Lecture Notes

Many of the required and suggested readings are available online in the course’s shared Dropbox folder. Contact Dr. Curiel to get access to the folder.

H. Bondi, Fact and Inference in Theory and in Observation, in Vistas in Astronomy, 1955, volume 1
E. Curiel, Framework Confirmation by Newtonian Abduction, forthcoming in Synthese (special issue “Reasoning in Physics”), 2019, doi:10.1007/s11229-019-02400-9
E. Curiel, Schematizing the Observer and the Epistemic Content of Theories, forthcoming in Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (special issue “The Philosophy of Howard Stein”), 2022. What appears in this version as §5 (“What Measurements and the Observer Are”) and §11 (“Appendix: Précis”), will not appear in the published version due to length constraints; otherwise the two versions are identical (except for trivialities noted in the text).
E. Curiel, Kinematics, Dynamics, and the Structure of Physical Theory (ABSTRACT)
E. Curiel, A Glossary for Newton’s Investigations on Light and Color, a short glossary for the more obscure, archaic and technical terms Newton and his contemporaries use, to help the contemporary reader
E. Curiel, On Learning Philosophy, unpublished manuscript (ABSTRACT)
C. Huygens, Treatise on Light, trans. S. P. Thompson, originally published by University of Chicago Press, re-distributed by Project Guternberg Online
The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Philosophical Papers, Vol. 1, eds. J. Worrall and G. Currie, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978.
J. C. Maxwell, The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell, Volume 1, a reprint of the original Cambridge University Press edition of 1890.
J. C. Maxwell, The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell, Volume 2, a reprint of the original Cambridge University Press edition of 1890.
The Newton Project, http://www.newtonproject.ox.ac.uk/, working towards online edition of all Newton’s writings, published and unpublished
I. Newton, Isaac Newton’s Papers & Letters on Natural Philosophy and Related Documents, edited and with a general introduction by I. B. Cohen, Harvard University Press, 1958.
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Volume 1 (Books 1 and 2), the translation by A. Motte of the third edition (1726), originally produced in 1729, revised by F. Cajori in 1934.
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Volume 2 (Book 3, “The System of the World”), the translation by A. Motte of the third edition (1726), originally produced in 1729, revised by F. Cajori in 1934.
I. Newton Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, translated by I. Cohen and A. Whitman (Author’s Preface; Definitions and Scholium; Axioms, or the Laws of Motion and Scholium; Rules for the Study of Natural Philosophy; General Scholium)
G. Smith, “Closing the Loop“, in Newton and Empiricism, eds. Z. Biener and E. Schliesser, Oxford University Press, 2014, ch. 10, pp. 262–351
H. Stein, “On Metaphysics and Method in Newton” (unpublished manuscript)
H. Stein, “Nevvtonus ab quibusdam nævibus vindicatus” (unpublished manuscript)
H. Stein, “Further Considerations on Newton’s Method” (unpublished manuscript)
H. Stein, “Newton: Philosophy of Inquiry and Metaphysics of Nature” (unpublished manuscript)
H. Stein, “On Locke, ‘the Great Huygenius, and the Incomparable Mr. Newton’”, Philosophical Perspectives on Newtonian Science, eds. P. Bricker and R. Hughes, MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 1990.
H. Stein, “‘From the Phenomena of Motions to the Forces of Nature’: Hypothesis or Deduction?”, Proceedings of the Biennial PSA Conference, 1990, vol. 2, 209–222
H. Stein, “On Philosophy and Natural Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century”, Midwest Studies in Philosophy 18 (1993), 177–201.
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, “Newtonian Space-Time”, Texas Quarterly 10(1967):174–200.
P. Suppes, Studies in the Methodology and Foundations of Science: Selected Papers from 1951 to 1969 (Springer, 1969)