NEIL W. TENNANT
tennant.9@osu.edu
If you email me, please use the header PHIL 455: YOURNAME.
Professor
Department of Philosophy
(those in bold face are on Reserve in the Main Library):
- Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, University of Chicago Press, 1996.
- Paul Feyerabend, Against Method, Verso, New York, 1988.
- Richard Braithwaite, Scientific Explanation, Cambridge, 1953.
- Alexandre Koyré, From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe, Johns Hopkins Press, 1957.
- Herbert Butterfield, The Origins of Modern Science, Bell, London, 1949.
- Norbert Hanson, Patterns of Discovery, Cambridge University Press, 1958.
- Norman Campbell, Foundations of Science, Dover, New York, 1957.
- Karl Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, Hutchinson, London, 1959.
- Pierre Duhem, The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory, Princeton University Press, 1954.
- Imre Lakatos and Alan Musgrave, eds., Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge, Cambridge University Press, 1970.
- Larry Laudan, Progress and its Problems, University of California Press, 1977.
- Barry Barnes, Scientific Knowledge and Sociological Theory, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1974.
- Mary Hesse, The Structure of Scientific Inference, Macmillan, London, 1974.
- Clark Glymour, Theory and Evidence, Princeton University Press, 1979.
- Bas van Fraassen, The Scientific Image, Oxford University Press, 1980.
- Nancy Cartwright, How the Laws of Physics Lie, Oxford University Press, 1983.
- Ian Hacking, Representing and Intervening: introductory topics in the philosophy of natural science, Cambridge University Press, 1983.
- Wesley Salmon, Scientific explanation and the causal structure of the world, Princeton University Press, 1984.
- Elliott Sober, The nature of selection : evolutionary theory in philosophical focus, Cambridge, MIT Press, 1984.
- Arthur Fine, The shaky game : Einstein, realism, and the quantum theory, University of Chicago Press, 1986.
- Lawrence Sklar, Philosophy of Physics, Boulder:Westview Press, 1992.
- Michael Redhead, From Physics to Metaphysics, Cambridge University Press, 1995.
A useful on-line bibliography in philosophy of science
Assessment:
| Item | Date due | Weight |
| Term paper | Friday, May 30 | 100% |
| Class attendance and participation | Every session! | An adjustment factor |
Policy on attendance at classes