online Zoom meeting
Meetings will be on Friday afternoons (approximately every other week) from 1:30-3:00 pm.
For zoom link to meeting contact [email protected]
For more information contact Alan Love
For Fall 2020, this group will continue its collaboration with the Center Discussion Group and read Why Trust Science? by Naomi Oreskes (Princeton University Press, 2019). Please secure a copy of the book through purchase or library loan if you plan to participate. (Note: there is an electronic copy available online from Wilson Library that allows for multiple users simultaneously.)
| September 18: Oreskes, N. 2019. Why Trust Science? (Princeton: Princeton University Press) Chapter 1 "Why Trust Science? Perspectives from the History and Philosophy of Science", pp. 15-43. |
| October 2: Oreskes, N. 2019. Why Trust Science? (Princeton: Princeton University Press) Chapter 1 "Why Trust Science? Perspectives from the History and Philosophy of Science", pp. 43-68, and Chapter 2 "Science Awry", pp. 69-127. |
| October 16: Oreskes, N. 2019. Why Trust Science? (Princeton: Princeton University Press) Chapter 2 "Science Awry", pp. 127-159. |
| October 30: Oreskes, N. 2019. Why Trust Science? (Princeton: Princeton University Press) Chapter 3 "The Epistemology of Frozen Peas" (Lindee), pp. 163-180, and Chapter 4 "What Would Reasons For Trusting Science Be?" (Lange), pp. 181-190. |
| November 13: Oreskes, N. 2019. Why Trust Science? (Princeton: Princeton University Press) Chapter 5 "Pascal's Wager Reframed" (Edenhofer/Kowarsch), pp. 191-201, and Chapter 6 "Comments on the Present and Future of Science, Inspired by Naomi Oreskes" (Krosnick), pp. 202-211. |
| December 4: Oreskes, N. 2019. Why Trust Science? (Princeton: Princeton University Press) Chapter 7 "Reply", pp. 215-244, and Afterword, pp. 245-255. |