HPS 2164 - PRAGMATISM AND SCIENTIFIC PRACTICE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Adopting a pragmatist stance is increasingly invoked in critiquing fundamentalism, representationalism, and unificationism in epistemology and metaphysics. Is the new pragmatist stance comprised of a set of basic doctrines, or a set of methods, or a set of problems? What are the varieties of pragmatism on offer? What are the relationships between pragmatism with pluralism, perspectivalism and the social nature of scientific practice? In this seminar we will consider recent work on pragmatism in the philosophy of science by Kitcher (2012 Preludes to pragmatism) Chang (2022 Realism for Realistic People), The Pragmatist Challenge (2023 Andersen and Mitchell eds.) and others.
Academic Career: Graduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Grad LG/SNC Basis

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