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Timothy J. McGrew |
Saturday, January 22,
2005. Here is an Adobe PDF file of the paper “Has Plantinga Refuted
the Historical Argument?” which was a keynote address to the Pacific
Division meeting of the Society of
Christian Philosophers in Los Angeles, February 2004 and appeared in Philosophia Christi 6
(2004): 7-26. [The
PDF format is necessary to preserve a few diagrams. The Adobe Acrobat Reader
is free for downloading on the web.] Sunday, January 04,
2004. Here is a
more or less final draft of "Confirmation, Heuristics,
and Explanatory Reasoning," which appeared in the British Journal for the Philosophy of
Science 54 (2003): 553-67. Monday, September 17,
2001. The most
recent version of "Toward a Rational
Reconstruction of Design Inferences" is now available. Tuesday, May 8, 2001. An almost typo-free version of
"Direct Inference
and the Problem of Induction" is now available. This is roughly the
same paper as the version in The Monist
84 (2001). Monday, May 7, 2001. "A Defense of Strong
Foundationalism" appears here with a small correction from the
version found in Louis Pojman’s anthology The
Theory of Knowledge: Classical and Contemporary Readings, 2nd ed. (1998).
A number of people have
told me that they have found the following brief bibliographies useful, so I
am leaving them online. They are not research bibliographies but rather
suggestions for those who are just beginning to enter the literature on a
given topic. Abductive
Inference and Inference to the Best Explanation
Philosophy
6320: Epistemology
Seminar (Fall 2008) Philosophy
5700: Philosophical
Applications of Probability Theory (Spring 2008)
James Morrison's Astrolabe page
Online Memory Improvement
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Current
Course Pages Honors 4700: Honors History and
Philosophy of Science, Part 2 (Spring 2010) This course examines the
history and philosophy of science from the late 1600’s to the late 20th
century. Beginning with the background to Philosophy 6000: Graduate Seminar:
History and Philosophy of Science, Part I (Spring 2010) This course is an
exploration of themes in the history and philosophy of science, with special
attention to the life and work of Aristotle, Ptolemy, Copernicus, Tycho,
Kepler and Galileo. Beginning with the necessary background in the physics
and astronomy of Aristotle, we will study the development of the modern view
with an eye to the conceptual and epistemological problems encountered in the
transition to the new physics and astronomy, culminating with a close reading
of most of Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems. In
order to keep the course within manageable bounds, we will focus primarily on
astronomy and dynamics, though there will be interesting sidelights thrown on
mathematics as well as biology, chemistry and other branches of science. |
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