Phil 105.

02 Science and Human Values Spring 2017

Saray Ayala-Lpez

Session Day Date Topic Readings for the Assignments deadlines

day
1 Tue 1/24 Syllabus overview
2 Thu 1/26 Intro I
3 Tue 1/31 Intro II Douglas 2015
4 Thu 2/2 Chalmers 1999 Intro,
What is science? I Ch. 1-2
5 Tue 2/7 What is science? II B&K pp. 1-24
6 Thu 2/9 Realism, Goals, B&K pp. 24-37 Writing Assignment 1
Explanations DUE
7 Tue 2/14 Realism, Goals, B&K pp. 38-49
Explanations
8 Thu 2/16 Unified Science and B&K pp. 50-77 Writing Assignment 2
understanding DUE

9 Tue 2/21 Correlation &

Causation Writing Assignment 3
DUE

10 Thu 2/23 Truth and scientific B&K pp. 94-105

progress
11 Tue 2/28 Values in the social Writing Assignment 4
sciences Douglas 2014 DUE
12 Thu 3/2 Categorization &
measurement Anthony 2016
13 Tue 3/7
Western Science & its B&K pp. 106-117 + Writing Assignment 5
generalizability Henrich et al 2010 DUE
14 Thu 3/9 Bias in Evolutionary Writing Assignment 6
Biology Lloyd 1993 (excerpt) DUE
15 Tue 3/14
Fine 2010 pp. 131- Writing Assignment 7
Bias in Neuroscience 154; 168-175 DUE
16 Thu 3/16 Individualistic vs. B&K pp. 117-121 Field work 1 DUE
Structural approaches

Tue 3/21 Spring recess

Thu 3/23
17 Tue 3/28 Clark 2000 Writing Assignment 8
Technology I DUE
18 Thu 3/30 Rosenberg 2016 +
Technology II Crawford 2016
19 Tue 4/4 Science, Values & B&K pp. 136-156 Handout DUE
Politics
20 Thu 4/6 Special event: FOTA Writing Assignment 9
DUE
21 Tue 4/11 Risk I exercise from special event
DUE
22 Thu 4/13 Special event: online video report DUE
23 Tue 4/18 Risk II Slovic 1999 Field work 2 DUE
24 Thu 4/20 Karkazis et al. 2012
Science, Sport & Sex
Categorization
25 Tue 4/25 Lombrozo 2014 Writing Assignment 10
Is/ought & Causality DUE
26 Thu 4/27 Anthropocentrism Gopnik 2016 Short paper DUE
27 Tue 5/2 Group presentations I
28 Thu 5/4 Group presentations
II
29 Tue 5/9 Group presentations
III if necessary OR
special topic
30 Thu 5/11 Last day of class General debate and
reflection on the
course