Part I: You should know the following words for fill in the blank questions: - Pseudoscience
- Evidentialism
- Pragmatism
- Correspondence Theory of Truth
- Coherence Theory of Truth
- Verificationists
- Hypothesis
- Living Option
- Dead Option
- Forced Option
- Avoidable Option
- Momentous Option
- Trivial Option
- Genuine Option
- Fallibilists
- Normative
- Descriptive
- Normal Science
- Paradigm
- Anomaly
- Scientific Revolutions
Part II: In addition, you should be able to explain the following concepts: - The story of the ship-owner Clifford begins his essay with.
- Clifford's analysis of why the ship owner is morally culpable.
- James' account of the two options with respect to belief or opinion.
- James' Thesis and his argument for it.
- Peirce's account of the difference between belief and doubt.
- Peirce's four methods for arriving at belief
- Which method Peirce thinks is the best and and the four reasons he gives in support of this.
- Popper's First Thesis.
- The arguments Popper gives against the Verificationists.
- Popper's account of the aim of science.
- Popper's three criteria of a New Scientific Theory as well as which are formal and which is material.
- Kuhn's account of the two features of a Paradigm.
- Kuhn's account of how a paradigm functions in science.
- Kuhn's account of the role anomalies play in scientific advancement.
- Kuhn's account of how Scientific Revolutions come about.
- Kuhn's account of how science progresses.
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