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James Bogen is an American science philosopher currently at University of Pittsburgh and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His interests include ancient Greek Philosophy, Wittgenstein, epistemology of science, and topics in the history and philosophy of neurosciences.
Control questions
1. What are concept, judgment and inference?
2. Is absolute truth possible?
3. List steps of scientific method.
4. What is the difference between scientific theory and scientific law?
5. What are scientific revolutions?
6. What problems arise from a mismatch between resources and opportunities?
7. What challenges of modern science do you know?
8. What does it mean to be “scientifically proven”?
9. In what sciences experimentation plays a less central role: in natural or in social?
10. Do humans need imagination?
Explain the difference between absolute and relative truth.
11. What is scientific modeling?