HPSC1001 Complete and Comprehensive Notes

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Notes based on the material from all lectures, tutorials and weekly readings. Topics include: - What is Philosophy of Science? - Tools and Concepts - Empiricism - Logical Positivism - Problems of Confirmation - Popper's Falsificationism - Thomas Kuhn's Revolution - Responses to Kuhn's View - The Demarcation Problem - Sociology of Science - Values, Objectivity and Social Critiques of Science - Relativism and Anti-Realism - Realism and Experiment: Realist Defence - Explanation in Science - Laws of Nature - Bayesian Theories of Evidence These notes helped me do extremely well and so would highly recommend them!!