Extra Readings

1.  Worldviews, Chapter 1.

2.  Introduction to Science, Chapter 1  …  Chapter 2

3.  My notes on rationalist arguments in physics

4. Thomas Kuhn, The Copernican Revolution, 168-181.

5. Kuhnian parable

6.  Kuhn, The Copernican Revolution, Chapter 6

7.  Karl Popper, “Science as Falsification

8.  Donald Gillies on Pierre Duhem

9.  My notes on inference to the best explanation.

10.  Michael Polanyi, “The Potential Theory of Adsorption

11.  Elizabeth Dzeng, “How academia and publishing are destroying scientific innovation

12.  Frank Tipler, “Refereed Journals: Do They Insure Quality or Enforce Orthodoxy?

13.  Peter Atkins, “Science as truth

 

For fun:

When Continental Drift Was Considered Pseudo Science“, Smithsonian Magazine

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