Kurset gjennomg?r et utvalg av klassiske artikler i emner som rasjonalitet og objektivitet, vitenskapelig realisme, epistemiske og sosiale normers rolle i vitenskapelig virksomhet.
Pensum best?r av artiklene som er listet nedenfor: F?lgende artikler finnes i kursets hovedbok (Martin Curd and J.A.Cover, eds. Philosophy of Science , New York and London: W.W. Norton, 1998):
Helen Longino, “Values and Objectivity”, s. 170-191. (Fra H. Longino, Science as Social Knowledge: Values and Objectivity in Scientific Inquiry, Princeton Univ. Press, 1990)
Thomas S. Kuhn, “The Nature and Necessity of Scientific Revolutions”, s. 86-101. (Fra Thomas S. Kuhn (1970) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2nd ed.)
Thomas S. Kuhn, “Objectivity, Value Judgement and Theory Choice”, s. 102-118. (Fra Thomas S. Kuhn (1977) The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change Ernan McMullin, “Rationality and Paradigm Change in Science”, s.119-138. (Fra Paul Horwich (ed.) World Changes: Thomas S. Kuhn and the Nature of Science, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993.)
Ernst Nagel, “Issues in the Logic of Reductive Explanations”, s. 905-921. (Fra Ernst Nagel, Teleology Revisited. New York: Columbia University Press, 1974.)
Paul K.Feyerabend, “How to Be a Good Empiricist - A Plea for Tolerance in Matters Epistemological”, s. 922-949. ( Fra Bernard Baumrin (ed.) The Delaware Seminar, vol. 2, New York, 1963.)
Grover Maxwell, ”The Ontological Status of Theoretical Entities”, s. 1952-1063. (Fra Herbert Feigl and Grover Maxwell (eds.) "Scientific Explanation, Space, and Time", vol. 3, Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1962.)
Bas van Fraasen, “Arguments Concerning Scientific Realism”, 1064-1087. (Fra Bas van Fraassen, The Scientific Image, Oxford 1980, s. 6-21, 23-25, 31-40.)
Ian Hacking, “Experimentation and Scientific Realism”, 1153-1167. (Fra Philosophical Topics 13 (1982): 154-72.)
Arthur Fine, “The Natural Ontological Attitude”, s. 1186-1208. (Fra J. Leplin (ed) Scientific Realism, Berkeley, 1984.)
Alan Musgrave, “NOA’s Ark - Fine for Realism”, s. 1209-1225. (Fra Philosophical Quarterly 39 (1989): 383-398.)
F?lgende artikler er tilgjengelige som kopier (p? bordet utenfor hovedfagslesesalen p? Filosofisk institutt):
J.Leplin, “A theory’s Predictive Success can Warrant Belief in the Unobservable Entities it Postulates”. A.Kukla and J. Walmsley, “A Theory’s Predictive Success does not Warrant Belief in the Unobservable Entities it Postulates”.Begge artikler fra: C. Hitchcock (ed) Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Science (Blackwell 2004), henholdsvis s. 117-132 og s. 133-148.
Robert K. Merton, “Science and the Social Order” (1938) og “The Normative Structure of Science” (1942) i R.K.Merton, The Sociology of Science (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1973), s.254-266 og 267-278.
Philip Kitcher, “Constraints on Free Inquiry”, kapittel 8 i Philip Kitcher, Science, Truth, and Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2001), 117-135.
Janet A. Kourany, “A Philosophy of Science for the Twenty-First Century”, Philosophy of Science 70 (2003), 1-14.
Ronald N. Giere, “A New Program for Philosophy of Science?”, Philosophy of Science 70 (2003), 15-21.