• Syllabus
• Readings:
• If there is no link, the item is either in the department office or in the Salmon book
• Fri Aug 26: Salmon, preface and first decade; Hempel and Oppenheim
• Mon Aug 29:
• Fri Sep 5: Hempel; Eberle et al.
• Mon Sep 8: Hempel
• Fri Sep 12: no reading
• Mon Sep 15: Salmon, second decade; Hempel
• Fri Sep 19: Salmon, third decade, pp. 61-94
• Mon Sep 22: Salmon, finish third decade
• Fri Sep 26: Salmon, fourth decade, pp. 117-150; van Fraassen, chapter 3
• Mon Sep 29: van Fraassen, chapter 5
• Fri Oct 3: No reading, no instructor, discussion among yourselves
• Mon Oct 6: discuss van Fraassen
• Fri Oct 10: discuss van Fraassen and Salmon fourth decade
• Mon Oct 13: Salmon, rest of book; Kitcher
• Mon Oct 27: Pruss; Kitcher Sections 4.4-5.5; Skipper
• Mon Oct 31: Strevens; Kvanvig
• Mon Nov 3: Strevens; Strevens
• Fri Nov 7: Strevens
• Mon Nov 10: Hume’s Enquiry VII-VIII
• Fri Nov 14: Lewis
• Mon Nov 24: Tooley, Chapters 1-2; background: Anscombe
• Mon Dec 1: Tooley, Chapter 3
• Fri Dec 5: Tooley, Chapters 4-6
• Mon Dec 8: Mumford; O’Connor