List of readings for FIL2208 spring 2014
(Google search for literature will be demonstrated in class).
Bechtel, W., & Abrahamsen, A. (2005). Explanation: a mechanist alternative. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 36(2), 421–441.
Excerpts from Freese, J. (2000). What Should Sociology Do About Darwin?: Evaluating Some Potential Contributions of Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology to Sociology.
Freese, J. (2002). Evolutionary Psychology: New Science or the Same Old Storytelling? Contexts, 1(3), 44-49.
Godfrey-Smith, P. Three Kinds of Adaptationism
Excerpts from Godfrey-Smith, P. (2013). Philosophy of Biology.
Gopnik, A. (1998). Explanation as Orgasm. Minds and Machines, 8(1), 101–118.
Gould, S. J., & Lewontin, R. C. (1979). The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological Sciences, 205(1161), 581-598.
Hedstr?m, P., & Ylikoski, P. (2010). Causal Mechanisms in the Social Sciences. Annual Review of Sociology, 36(1), 49-67.
Hempel, C. G., & Oppenheim, P. (1948). Studies in the Logic of Explanation. Philosophy of Science, 15(2), 135–175.
Hitchcock, C. R. (1995). Salmon on Explanatory Relevance. Philosophy of Science, 62(2), 304–320.
Hitchcock, C. R. (1996). The Role of Contrast in Causal and Explanatory Claims. Synthese, 107(3), 395–419.
Keil, F. C. (2006). Explanation and Understanding. Annual Review of Psychology, 57(1), 227-254.
Kitcher, P. (1981). Explanatory Unification. Philosophy of Science, 48(4), 507-531.
Lewis, D. (1973). Causation. The Journal of Philosophy, 70(17), 556–567.
Lewis, D. (1986). Causal Explanation. In Philosophical papers ii.
Lipton, P. What good is an explanation. http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/people/lipton/what_good.pdf.
Machamer, P., Darden, L., & Craver, C. F. (2000). Thinking about Mechanisms. Philosophy of Science, 67(1), 1–25.
Excerpts from Miller, R. (1987). Fact and Method.
Sawyer, R. K. (2002). Nonreductive Individualism: Part I—Supervenience and Wild Disjunction. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 32(4), 537-559.
Sawyer, R. K. (2003). Nonreductive Individualism Part II—Social Causation. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 33(2), 203-224.
Skipper Jr, R. A., & Millstein, R. L. (2005). Thinking about evolutionary mechanisms: natural selection. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 36(2), 327-347.
Excerpts from Sterelny, K., & Griffiths, P. (1999). Sex and death: an introduction to philosophy of biology.
Udehn, L. (2002). The Changing Face of Methodological Individualism. Annual Review of Sociology, 28, 479-507.
van Bouwel, J. (2004). Individualism and Holism, Reduction and Pluralism: A Comment on Keith Sawyer and Julie Zahle. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 34(4), 527-535.
Excerpts from Woodward, J. (2003). Making Things Happen. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Ylikoski, P., & Kuorikoski, J. (2010). Dissecting explanatory power. Philosophical Studies, 148(2), 201–219.