READING LIST:
The main Library and the Science Library contain very good reference materials for the course. Some of these materials that have been identified include:
- Peter Caws, The Philosophy of Science: A Systematic Account.
Princeton NJ;
Van Nostrand, 1985. - Jeffrey C.Leon, Science and Philosophy in the West. New
Jersey: Prentice Hall,
1999. - Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of
Scientific Knowledge.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1991 - Yuri Balashov and Alex Rosenberg (Eds.) Philosophy of Science:
Contemporary
Readings. London and New York: Routledge, 2002 . - Baruch A. Brody and Richard E. Grandy (Eds.) Readings in
the Philosophy of
Science. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1989. . - May Brodbeck, Readings in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences.
New York:
Macmillan, 1968. - Nancy E. Shaffer, “Understanding Bias in Scientific
Practice” Philosophy of
Science: Supplement to Vol. 63, No. 3, 1996. pp.S89-S97. - Lawrence O. Bamikole, “Winch- MacIntyre Debate on
‘The Idea of a Social
Science’: Some Comments” Nigerian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities,
Vol. iii, Nos. 1&2, 1995. pp.22-35. - Notetta Koertge, Science, Values and the Value of Science”
Philosophy of
Science. Supplement to Vol. 67, No. 3, September, 2000. pp. S45-S57. - Joseph F. Hanna, “The Scope and Limits of Scientific
Objectivity” Philosophy of
Science, Vol, 71, No.3, July, 2004. pp. 339-361.
