Understanding Science

Fall 2012

Professor: P.D. Magnus

• Syllabus
• Course readings at ERes

Course readings:

• Fixation of Belief (Peirce, Charles Sanders)
• notes on inference (class notes)
• Towards an Analysis of Scientific Observation (Pinch, Trevor)
• ACTing UP: AIDS cures and lay expertise (Collins, Harry and Trevor Pinch)
• What Scientists Know Is Not A Function of What Scientists Know (Magnus, P.D.)
• selections from Science, Truth, and Democracy (Kitcher, Philip)
• Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion (Mill, John Stuart)
• selections from ch 5 of The Mismeasure of Man (Gould, Stephen Jay)
• selections from ch 6 of The Mismeasure of Man (Gould, Stephen Jay)
• Can there be a feminist science? (Longino, Helen)
• Women in Physical Science (Brush, Stephen)
• Reducing the Gender Achievement Gap in College Science: A Classroom Study of Values Affirmation (Miyake et al.)
• Objectivity or Heroism? On the Invisibility of Women in Science (Oreskes, Naomi)