Physics
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Sep 2000
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European Journal of Physics, Volume 21, Issue 5, pp. 427-433 (2000).
Physics
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A philosopher (WR) and a physicist (KF) have been team teaching a history and philosophy of science course every other year over the past twelve years at Indiana University Southeast. Our approach has been to spend about half the semester talking about the development of the Sun-centred system of Copernicus, covering some important developments in astronomy and physics during the period from Copernicus until Newton's death. The second half of the course examines modern views of scientific method, the scope of scientific knowledge, and observations about science and values put forth by various philosophers (for example, Popper, Ziman, Thagard, Carnap, Hempel, Quine and others). Students are asked to write essays critiquing these philosophical views using historical examples from the earlier readings as support for their arguments. The last time we ran the course we placed the papers (anonymously) on the web and had participants in the class make suggestions to each other on improving the essays of their fellow students. We feel this was a valuable exercise and intend to try it again. Our paper includes a discussion of our method and a sample of issues raised.
Forinash Kyle
Rumsey William D.
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