Assigned: 26 Jan '07
Topic: What is science? (part II)
Again, remember that our ultimate question is whether computer
science is a science.
Required
• Papineau, David (1996), "Philosophy of Science" [PDF], in
Nicholas Bunnin & E.P. Tsui-James (eds.), The Blackwell
Companion to Philosophy (Oxford: Blackwell): 290-324.
* pp.290-295, 298-310; skim the rest.
Strongly Recommended
• Read the rest of Papineau 1996
• Popper, Karl R. (1953), "Science: Conjectures and Refutations",
from his Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific
Knowledge (New York: Harper & Row, 1962).