Honors 221
History and Philosophy of Science
Readings


August 26
David Goodstein: How Science Works
The Book of Genesis (read chapters 1-3)
Helen Quinn: Belief and Knowledge-A Plea About Language

August 31
Pre-Socratic Fragments

September 9
Pythagoras

September 14
Aristotle: Posterior Analytics

September 21
Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica Excerpt

September 28
Francis Bacon: The Novum Organum

October 7
T. H. White: The Book of Beasts (Read "Beasts" pp 7-12 "The Lion")
Carl Linnaeus

October 12
Amadeo Avagadro
John Dalton

October 19
Rachel Lauden: Ideas and Organizations in British Geology

October 21
John Playfair
Georges Cuvier

October 26
Charles Babbage, Chapter 2 & Appendix B
William Paley: Natural Theology

October 28
Charles Darwin: On the Origin of Species, Chapters 1-4

November 2
Gregor Mendel
E. O. Wilson (Sorry, no Wilson reading this time)

November 4
Francis Galton
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

November 9
Alan Turing

November 18
Karl Popper: Conjectures and Refutations

November 23
Thomas Kuhn

December 2
Richard Feynman: The Uncertainty of Science