Stephen Straker lectures
History and Philosophy of Science at the University of British Columbia
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History and Philosophy of Science
at the University of British Columbia
I. Scientific Inquiry: An introduction to problems and issues
II. Plato & Aristotle: Science and society from Antiquity to the Renaissance
III. The Scientific Revolution: Galileo, Newton and the Enlightenment Project
IV. The Romantic Revolution and the Sciences of Life
V. Science and Society in the Modern World
- 01a - What is Knowledge? (41.5Mb)
- 01b - Knowing (41.6Mb)
- 02a - Logic, Belief (43Mb)
- 02b - Instrumentalism, Realism (43.1Mb)
- 03a - Appearances (42.8Mb)
- 03b - An Aristotelian Defends... (42.6Mb)
- 04a - Celestial Explanations (42.6Mb)
- 04b - Greek Science (42.6Mb)
- 05a - Plato, Aristotle (42.7Mb)
- 05b - Aristotle: Causes (42.5Mb)
- 06a - Aristotle: Soul, Nature (42.6Mb)
- 06b - Aristotle: Nature, Mind, Purpose, Politics (42.7Mb)
- 07a - Thomas Aquinas (42.9Mb)
- 07b - Medieval Natural Philosophy (42.9Mb)
- 08a - Impetus Theory (41.8Mb)
- 08b - New Measures (42Mb)
- 09a - Mathematical Analysis (28.4Mb)
- 09b - Science in History (28.2Mb)
- 10a - Luther (41.4Mb)
- 10b - Paracelsus and Alchemy (41.4Mb)
- 11a - 15th-17th Century Activities and Technologies (41.3Mb)
- 11b - Brahe, Copernicus, Kepler (41.2Mb)
- 12a - Kepler, Optics, Copernicus (41.1Mb)
- 12b - Copernicus (41.2Mb)
- 13a - To Make Sense of a Moving Earth (41.3Mb)
- 13b - Progress (41.5Mb)
- 15a - Galileo (41.3Mb)
- 15b - Galileo Gets Behind Copernicism (41.5Mb)
- 16a - Moving Away From Aristotelianism (41.4Mb)
- 16b - Religion and Knowledge of Nature (41.4Mb)
- 17 - Galileo on Trial (41.6Mb)
- 18a - Kepler, Galileo, Hobbes (41.7Mb)
- 18b - Descartes, Doubts (41.8Mb)
- 20a - Properties, Interactions of Matter, Boyle (41.6Mb)
- 20b - Mechanists (41.6Mb)
- 21a - Francis Bacon, Useful Knowledge (41.6Mb)
- 21b - Newton Invents the Lab Report (41.7Mb)
- 22a - Newton the Theological Realist (38.3Mb)
- 22b - Newton, Locke, Smith, Marx, Darwin (38.3Mb)
- 23a - Locke, Justice, Property (41.6Mb)
- 23b - Adam Smith, Batteries Run Out (60Mb)
- 24a - Solar System, Geology (41.7Mb)
- 24b - Darwin (41.6Mb)
- 25a (18.3Mb)
- 26a - Eugenics, Thomas Kuhn (unknown file size)
- 26b - Kuhn's Paradigms (41.7Mb)
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