'Revolutionary science' presentation slideshows

Lecture 1: Science and Pseudoscience

Lecture 1: Science and Pseudoscience. 1. Science 2. Protoscience 3. Pseudoscience 4. Pathological Science 5. Fraud in Science 6. Conclusions. Science. No clear set of defining characteristics to differentiate science from non-science.

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Chapter 7 Does Science Tell Us the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth?

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Kuhn: Intro, Normal Science

Kuhn: Intro, Normal Science. Shifting ground. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. This is the most influential book on philosophy of science of the last half of the 20 th century. Kuhn is, first, a historian of science.

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An Intro to STS

Positivism: August Compt (1856): empiricism + rationalism = objective truth, i.e. science.

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Goals of Archaeology (Patty Jo Watson )

Goals of Archaeology (Patty Jo Watson ). 2/3/06. Develop Chronology in the Absence of writing ( Culture History) Reconstruct Past Lifeways ( New Archaeology as Culture Reconstruction) Explain Culture Change (New Archaeology as Culture Process). PARADIGMS IN ARCHAEOLOGY. CULTURE HISTORY

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