The Nature of Scientific Evidence - Reading List

Rose-Mary Sargent - Mandatory Readings
Rose-Mary Sargent, Mandatory Readings- DOCX
Francis Bacon, Selections from New Organon - PDF
Rose-Mary Sargent, From Bacon to Banks (9 pp.) - PDF
Benjamin Franklin, Electrical Kite - PDF
Humphry Davy, An Account of an Invention - PDF Humphry Davy Selections from Elements of Agricultural Chemistry - PDF
John Stuart Mill, Selections from A System of Logic - PDF
William Whewell, Francis Bacon from Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences - PDF
John Dewey, Selections form Experience and Nature - PDF
Bertrand Russell, Selections from The Prospects of Industrial Civilization - PDF
J. B. Conant, selection from Modern Science and Modern Man - PDF
The Water Resources Research Institute, "The Data Quality Act" - PDF
See also: http://thecre.com/quality/index.html


Rose-Mary Sargent - Supplemental Readings
Rose-Mary Sargent, Supplemental Readings- DOCX
Robert Boyle, Selection from Usefulness of Experimental Philosophy - PDF
Rose-Mary Sargent, Baconian Experimentalism - PDF Joseph Banks, Selected correspondence - PDF Count Rumford, "Proposals for forming by subscription - PDF David Hume, Selections from Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - PDF William Whewell, On Mr. Mill's Logic" from On the Philosophy of Discovery - PDF Richard Proctor, Selections from Wages and Wants of Science Workers - PDF P. W. Bridgeman, The British Society for Freedom in Science - PDF J. D. Bernal, Selections from The Social Function of Science - PDF Noretta Koertge, Expanding Philosophy of Science into the Moral Domain - PDF Philip Kitcher, Scientific Research: Who Should Govern? - PDF


Rose-Mary Sargent - Slides
Rose-Mary Sargent, Slides I - PPT
Rose-Mary Sargent, Slides II - PPT
Rose-Mary Sargent, Slides III - PPT
Rose-Mary Sargent, Slides IV - PPT
Rose-Mary Sargent, Slides V - PPT


Martin Carrier - Readings
Martin Carrier, Readings - DOC
Wilholt, Design Rules - PDF
Ziman, The Continuing Need - PDF
Longino, Gender Politics - PDF
Wise, Thoughts on Politicization - PDF
Nordmann, The Age of Technoscience - PDF
Stokes, Pasteur's Quadrant - PDF

Martin Carrier - Slides
Martin Carrier, Slides I - PPTX
Martin Carrier, Slides II - PPTX
Martin Carrier, Slides III - PPTX
Martin Carrier, Slides IV - PPTX
Martin Carrier, Slides V - PPTX


Peter Weingart - Readings
Peter Weingart, Readings - DOC
Godin, The Linear Model of Innovation - PDF
OECD, Dynamising National Innovation Systems - PDF
Pielke & Byerly, Beyond Basic and Applied - PDF
Sarewitz, Does Science Policy Matter? - PDF
Hessels, Re-thinking new knowledge - PDF


William Butz - Readings
William Butz, Readings - DOCX




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