TEIL I – DAS INDUKTIONSPROBLEM
1. Sitzung (17.02.2014): Einführung. Weisen des Schließens: Deduktion, Induktion, Abduktion
-Norton, John D. “A Little Survey of Induction.” In Scientific Evidence: Philosophical Theories and Applications, edited by Peter Achinstein, 9–34. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. (S. 1-10).
2. Sitzung (24.02.2014): Humes Argument
-Hume, David. “Book I, Part 3. Sect. 1-6.” In A Treatise of Human Nature (1739), edited by David Fate Norton and Mary J. Norton, 50–65. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
3. Sitzung (03.03.2014): Humes Argument II
-Lange, Marc. “Hume and the Problem of Induction.” In Handbook of the History of Logic. Volume 10: Inductive Logic, edited by Dov Gabbay, Stephan Hartmann, and John Woods. Amsterdam; New York: Elsevier, 2008.
4. Sitzung (10.03.2014): Popper über Induktion
-Popper, Karl R. “Kapitel 1: Grundprobleme der Erkenntnislogik.” In Logik der Forschung. 9. verbesserte Auflage. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1989.
5. Sitzung (17.03.2014): Poppers deduktive Methode
-Popper, Karl R. “Science: Conjectures and Refutations (1957).” In Conjectures and Refutations, 43–78. London; New York: Routledge, 2002.
6. Sitzung (24.03.2014): Bayesianismus
-Hajek, Alan, and Stephan Hartmann. “Bayesian Epistemology.” In A Companion to Epistemology, 93–106. Oxford: Blackwell, 2010.
7. Sitzung (31.03.2014): Goodmans New Riddle of Induction
-Goodman, Nelson. “Chapter II. The Passing of the Possible.” In Fact, Fiction, and Forecast (1954), 31–58. Cambridge MA; London: Harvard University Press, 1983.
8. Sitzung (07.04.2014): Goodmans New Riddle of Induction II
-Goodman, Nelson. „Chapter III. The New Riddle of Induction.“ Fact, Fiction, and Forecast (1954). Cambridge MA; London: Harvard University Press, 1983.
TEIL II – NATURGESETZE & GESETZE IN DER WISSENSCHAFT
9. Sitzung (14.04.2014): Die Regularitätstheorie
Auszüge aus:
-Mill, John Stuart. “The General Regularity in Nature Is a Tissue of Partial Regularities, Called Laws.” In A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, edited by J.M. Robson, 315–322. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1973.
-Mackie, John L. “Causal Regularities.” In The Cement of the Universe, 59–87. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980.
-Psillos, Stathis. “The Regularity View of Laws.” In Causation and Explanation, 137–158. Chesham: Acumen, 2002.
10. Sitzung (28.04.2014): Popper über Naturgesetze
-Popper, Karl R. “APPENDIX *X. Universals, Dispositions, and Natural or Physical Necessity.” In The Logic of Scientific Discovery, 440–463. London: Routledge, 2002.
11. Sitzung (05.05.2014): Humesche Supervenienz
Auszüge aus:
-Esfeld, Michael. “Die Humesche Metaphysik.” In Naturphilosophie als Metaphysik der Natur, 137–155. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2008.
-Lewis, David. “Humean Supervenience Debugged.” Mind 103, 412 (1994): 473–490.
-Loewer, Barry. “Humean Supervenience.” Philosophical Topics 24, 101–127 (1996).
-Frigg, Roman, and Carl Hoefer. “The Best Humean System for Statistical Mechanics.” Erkenntnis (2013).
12. Sitzung (12.05.2014): Ceteris Paribus Gesetze
-Cartwright, N. “The Truth Doesn’t Explain Much. Do the Laws of Physics State the Facts?” In How the Laws of Physics Lie. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983.
13. Sitzung (19.05.2014): Gesetze in der Biologie
Auswahl aus:
-Beatty, John. “The Evolutionary Contingency Thesis.” In Concepts, Theories, and Rationality in the Biological Sciences. The Second Pittsburgh-Konstanz Collquium in the Philosophy of Science, edited by Gereon Wolters and James G Lennox, 45–87. Konstanz; Pittsburgh: Universitätsverlag Konstanz/University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993.
-Mitchell, Sandra D. “Does Biology Have Laws?” In Unsimple Truths. Science, Complexity, and Policy, 50–64. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009.
-Ruse, Michael E. “Are There Laws in Biology?” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 48, 2 (1970).
14. Sitzung (26.05.2014): Abschluss & Rekapitulation
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