PHIL 13195  Honors Philosophy Seminar: Philosophy of Science, Fall 2020
University of Notre Dame

Syllabus

How to Keep a Good Journal

Philosophy Department Guidelines Regarding Plagiarism

Fall 2020 Class Intro Slide

Four Main Topic Areas in Philosophy

Plato and His Dialogues

Map of Athens in the 5th Century BC

Plato's Academy Today

The Divided Line

Handout on the Divided Line and the Parable of the Cave

 

Orson Welles's Presentation of the Parable of the Cave

 

The Lyceum

 

Main Concepts in Aristotle's Natural Philosophy

 

Projectile Motion in the Renaissance 1

 

Projectile Motion in the Renaissance 2

 

Eudoxan and Ptolemaic Model

Retrograde Motion of the Planets

Retrograde Motion Only at Opposition

Another Animation of the Ptolemaic System

Eudoxus' System

Ptolemaic Devices

The Ptolemaic System

Kepler's Nested Solids Model

Kepler's Laws

Eratosthenes Determination of the Earth's Circumference

Tycho Brahe's Instruments

Galileo's Telescope

Chromatic Aberration

Schreiner's Helioscope

Phases of Venus

Joshua's Defeat of the Amorite Kings

Sun's Annual Motion

Augustine, Galileo, and Urban VIII

Descartes' Proof of God's Existence in Meditation Three

Newton's Laws of Motion and Universal Gravitation

Deduction vs. Induction

White Ravens

Tool Use by Apes

Koko - Apes and Language

E. O. Wilson Sociobiology

Parthenon

Socrates' Cell 1

Socrates' Cell 2

Socrates' Cell 3

Socrates' Cell 4

Socrates' Cell 5

Socrates' Cell 6

Don's Fun Fact