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Thursday, September 25 | : (no reading, first class).
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Friday, September 26 | : World Cassowary Day
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| Part I: Carnap/Goodman/Quine |
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Tuesday, September 30 | : Carnap,
Aufbau, Preface to 1st Edition (pp. xv–xviii); §§1–5 (pp. 5–10); §§17–25
(pp. 31–43).
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Wednesday, October 1 | : (10:40am–12:15pm) Carnap, Aufbau, §§26–41
(pp. 47–70); §§46–60 (pp. 78–97). (Zoom only.)
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Thursday, October 2 | : No class due to due to Yom Kippur.
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Monday, October 6 | : (10:40am–12:15pm) Carnap, Aufbau, §61 (pp. 98–9);
§67 (pp. 107–9); §75 (122-4); §78 (127–8); §§95–6 (pp. 152–4); §§98–103
(pp. 156–63); §§125–8 (pp. 194–9); §157 (p. 246); §§160–61 (pp. 254–7);
§§165–9 (pp. 263–72). (Zoom only.)
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Tuesday, October 7 | : No class due to due to the first day of Sukkot.
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Thursday, October 9 | : Carnap, Aufbau, §§175–83 (pp. 281-98).
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Monday, October 13 | : (10:40am–12:15pm) Carnap, The Unity of Science,
§§1–3 and 6; Neurath, “Protocol Sentences”; Carnap, “On Protocol
Sentences.” (Zoom only.)
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Tuesday, October 14 | : No class due to due to Shemini Atzeret.
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Thursday, October 16 | : Goodman, Fact, Fiction, and Forecast, ch. 2, §§1–3
and 5 (pp. 31–49 and 57–8).
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Tuesday, October 21 | : Goodman, Fact, Fiction, and Forecast, ch. 3 and
beginning of ch. 4 (pp. 59–99).
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Thursday, October 23 | : Quine, “Epistemology Naturalized.”
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| Part II: Popper/Kuhn |
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Tuesday, October 28 | : Popper, LSD, ch. 1 and 2 (pp. 3–34).
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Thursday, October 30 | : Popper, LSD ch. 3 (pp. 37–56).
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Tuesday, November 4 | : Popper, LSD, ch. 4 (pp. 57–73) (and Midterm
assignment — exam or paper — due).
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Thursday, November 6 | : Popper, LSD, ch. 5 (pp. 74–94).
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Tuesday, November 11 | : No class (Veterans Day)
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Thursday, November 13 | : Popper, LSD, ch. 10 beginning and §79
(pp. 248–52); §82 (pp. 264–7); §84 through end (including Addendum),
pp. 273–82.
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Tuesday, November 18 | : Neurath, “Pseudorationalism of Falsification”;
Putnam “The ‘Corroboration’ of Theories”; Lakatos, “Popper on
Demarcation and Induction,” through end of part I (pp. 241–52).
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Thursday, November 20 | : Kuhn, SSR, ch. 1–5, pp. 1–51.
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Tuesday, November 25 | : Kuhn, SSR, ch. 6–8, pp. 52–91.
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Thursday, November 27 | : No class (Thanksgiving)
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Tuesday, December 2 | : Kuhn, SSR, ch. 9–10, pp. 92–135.
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Thursday, December 4 | : Kuhn, SSR, ch. 11–13, pp. 136–73.
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Tuesday, December 9 | : In-person final exam, and final assignment
(exam or paper) due.
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