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'The Rationality of Science', 'Naming and Necessity lectures' and 'The Life of Reason'
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1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 1. History of Philosophy
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He who is ignorant of the history of philosophy is doomed to repeat it [Santayana, by MacIntyre]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 2. Possibility of Metaphysics
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Kripke separated semantics from metaphysics, rather than linking them, making the latter independent [Kripke, by Stalnaker]
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1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 4. Conceptual Analysis
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Analyses of concepts using entirely different terms are very inclined to fail [Kripke]
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1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 1. Aims of Science
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The real problem of science is how to choose between possible explanations [Newton-Smith]
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We do not wish merely to predict, we also want to explain [Newton-Smith]
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For science to be rational, we must explain scientific change rationally [Newton-Smith]
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1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 2. Positivism
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Positivists hold that theoretical terms change, but observation terms don't [Newton-Smith]
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Critics attack positivist division between theory and observation [Newton-Smith]
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