Lecture 1: What are "Tools of Thinking?" -- Lecture 2: Which tools of thinking are basic? -- Lecture 3: Platonic intuition, memory, and reason -- Lecture 4: Intuition, memory, and reason--problems -- Lecture 5: Sense experience--a more modern take -- Lecture 6: Observation and immediate inferences -- Lecture 7: Further immediate inferences -- Lecture 8: Categorical syllogisms -- Lecture 9: Ancient logic in modern dress -- Lecture 10: Systematic doubt and rational certainty -- Lecture 11: The limits of sense experience -- Lecture 12: Inferences demand relevant evidence. Lecture 13:Proper inferences avoid equivocation --Lecture 14: Induction is slippery but unavoidable --Lecture 15: The scientific revolution --Lecture 16: Hypothesis and experiments-a first look --Lecture 17: How empirical is modern empiricism? --Lecture 18: Hypothesis and experiments-a closer look --Lecture 19: "Normal science" at mid-century --Lecture 20: Modern logic-truth tables --Lecture 21: Modern logic-sentential arguments --Lecture 22: Modern logic-predicate arguments --Lecture 23: Postmodern and New-Age problems --Lecture 24: Rational empiricism in the 21st century.
Summary:
"The purpose of this course is to trace out in a semi-historical way how modern rational empiricism has arrived at its tool kit for thinking (a tool kit particularly well modeled by modern natural science but also employed in a wide variety of other, everyday, enterprises)"--P. 1.
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