Intellectual Foundations in Social Sciences

There are several sets of materials, which are mixed together. The lectures are powerpoint presentations that are general summaries. Some are from me and some from the students. The second set of materials are short summaries of the articles in the syllabus and these are password protected.

SYLLABUS, 2009

Some Additional Readings (ZIP)

Philosophy of (Social) Science & Science and Pseudoscience

PPT Presentation (Timothy Devinney)

Induction

Overview of Induction (Sebastian Boell). PPT Presentation.
Overview of Induction (Brian WB Chu). PPT Presentation.
Overview of Induction (Karpurika Raychaudhuri). PPT Presentation.

Falsification

Overview of Falsificationism (Junhua Li). PPT Presentation.

Paradigms and Programs

Overview of Kuhn & Paradigms (Esmeralda Thomson). PPT Presentation.
Overview of Research Programs (Fei Yi Gao). PPT Presentation.

Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge

Overview of Feyerabend (Robyn Goodwin). PPT Presentation.

Bayesianism & Probability

Overview of Bayesianism (Carolyn Njenga). PPT Presentation.

Experimentation

Overview of New Experimentalism (Moureen Wong & James Garcia). PPT Presentation.
Duhem-Quine Thesis (James Garcia; Moureen Wong). Garcia PPT Presentation. Wong PPT Presentation.

Causation, Explanation and the Laws of “Nature”

Mellor & Cartwright (Salfarina Abdullah).
Ayer & Dretske (Allison Wilkinson). PPT Presentation.

Realism and Rationalism

Realism - Boyd & Musgrave (Xiaobei Li)
Realism - van Fraassen & Kincaid (Jiang Hong)
Friedman & Simon (Sixin Sheng).
PPT Presentation

Functionalism and Individualism

Hermeneutics and Critical Theory

Interpretative Theory (Gerri Harris)
Habermas (Kate Sakolvieng). PPT Presentation.