Additional Readings
These are readings you may find interesting in understanding the history, philosophy and ethics of science. They are not required or expected readings, but are provided as additional resources for anyone who might want to read further into the topic. Many of them are readings you will encounter if you enroll in the course Scientific Process.
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Topic |
Author |
Year |
Title |
Book/Journal |
Publisher |
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Science vs. Non-Science |
Sagan, Carl |
1996 |
Ch.1: The Most Precious Thing Ch.2: Science and Hope |
The Demon Haunted World: Science as a candle in the dark. ISBN 0 345 40946 9 |
Ballantine Books - New York. |
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Hull, David |
1988 |
Ch.1: Science, Philosophy of Science, and the Science of Science |
Science as a Process. ISBN 0 553 06174 7 |
University of Chicago Press - Chicago. |
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Falsification vs. Consilience |
Horgan, J. |
1996 |
Ch.5: The End of Evolutionary Biology |
The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age. ISBN 0 55306 1747 |
Broadway Books - New York. |
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Chalmers, A.F. |
1982 |
Ch.4: Introducing Falcificationism |
What Is This Thing Called Science? ISBN 0872201996 |
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Problems of Assumptions |
Gould, S.J. |
1985 |
Ch.8: False Premise, Good Science. |
The Flamingo’s Smile. - Reflections in Natural History ISBN 0393022285. |
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. - New York |
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Alpert, P. |
? |
The Boulder and the Sphere: Subjectivity and Ethical Content in Biology |
transcript from a public presentation |
unpublished |
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| Scientific Revolution |
Kuhn, Thomas J |
1996* |
Ch.13: Progress through Revolutions |
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. ISBN 0226458032 |
University of Chicago Press - Chicago. *3rd ed.; 1st ed. 1962. |
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Scientific Design Framework |
Janick-Buckner, Diane |
1997 |
Getting Undergraduates to Critically Read and Discuss Primary Literature: cultivating students’ analytical abilities in an advanced cell biology course. |
Journal of College Science Teaching. September/October: 29-32. |
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Ethics I |
Glass, Bentley |
1965 |
The ethical basis of science |
Science, vol. 150: 1254-1261. |
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Swazey, J.P., M.S. Anderson, and K.S. Lewis |
1993 |
Ethical problems in academic research. |
American Scientist, 81: 542-553. |
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O’Brien, Mary H. |
1993 |
Being a scientist means taking sides. |
BioScience. 43(10): 706-708. |
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Ethics II |
Hamilton, D.P. |
1990 |
White coats, black deeds - the new scientific method: lie, cheat, and get good PR. |
The Washington Monthly, April, 1990: 23-31. |
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Broad, W.J. |
1981 |
Fraud and the structure of science. |
Science, vol. 212: 137-141. |
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Ethics III |
DesJardins, J.R. |
1993 |
Ch.1: Ethics, science, and the environment. |
Environmental Ethics |
Wadsworth Publishing Company - Belmont, California |
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Hardin, Garrett |
1968 |
The tragedy of the commons. |
Science, vol. 162: 1243-1248. |
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