STS Ph.D. Preliminary Exam Reading List Revised DRAFT, 2009 Philosophy of Science and Technology Books Basalla, George, 1988. The Evolution of Technology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Curd, M., and Cover, J.A. 1998. Philosophy of Science: The Central Issues. WW Norton and Company. From the Curd and Cover anthology: Kitcher, P "1953 and all that: A tale of two sciences" Musgrave, A, "NOA's Arc: Fine for realism" Psillos, Stathis Scientific Realism: How Science Tracks Truth." Laudan, "Demystifying Underdetermination." Duhem, Pierre, 1969. To Save the Phenomena: An Essay on the Idea of Physical Theory from Plato to Galileo, trans. E. Doland and C. Maschler. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Feyerabend, Paul, 1981. Realism, Rationalism, and Scientific Method (Philosophical Papers, vol. 1) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, chaps. 1, 2, and 4: “On the Interpretation of Scientific Theories;” “An Attempt at a Realistic Interpretation of Experience;” and “Explanation, Reduction and Empiricism,” pp.1-36 and 44-96; plus “Against Method” in M. Radner and S. Winokur, eds., Analyses and Methods of Physics and Psychology (Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 4). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1970, pp. 17-130. Fine, Arthur, 1996. The Shaky Game: Einstein, Realism, and the Quantum Theory, 2nd ed. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Galison, Peter, 1987. How Experiments End. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Galison, Peter and David J. Stump, 1996. The Disunity of Science: Boundaries, Contexts, and Power. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press. Giere, Ron, 1988. Explaining Science. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Haack, S. Defending Science, Within Reason: Between Scientism and Cynicism (2003, Prometheus Books) Hacking, Ian, 1983. Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science. New York: Cambridge University Press. Harding, Sandra, 1991. Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?: Thinking from Women’s Lives. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Hempel, Carl G., 1965. Aspects of Scientific Explanation. NY: The Free Press. Chapters 1, 4, and 10 (“Studies in the Logic of Confirmation,” “Empiricist Criteria of Cognitive Significance: Problems and Changes,” and “Studies in the Logic of Explanation”). Koertge, Noretta, 1988. A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths about Science. New York: Oxford University Press. Kitcher, P. 2001. Science, Truth, and Democracy. New York: Oxford University Press. Kuhn, Thomas S., 1962, 1970. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Lakatos, Imre and Alan Musgrave eds., 1970. Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge. New York: Cambridge University Press. Laudan, Larry, 1977. Progress and Its Problems: Towards a Theory of Scientific Growth. Berkeley, CA: University Of California Press. Longino, Helen, 1990. Science as Social Knowledge: Values and Objectivity in Scientific Inquiry. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Machamer, P. and Silberstein, M (eds.) 2002. Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Science. Blackwell Publ. Mayo, C, 1994. Thinking Through Technology: The Path Between Engineering and Philosophy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Mitcham, Deborah, 1996. Error and the Growth of Experimental Knowledge. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Pitt, Joseph, ed. 1995. New Directions in the Philosophy of Technology, Vol 11 in Philosophy and Technology series, Dordrecht: Kluwer [articles by Pitt, Kroes, Wachtel, and Hickman]. Popper, K. Conjectures and Refutations (New York: Harper and Row, 1963). Introduction (“On the Sources of Knowledge and Ignorance”) and Chaps. 1-3 and 10-11 (“Three Views Concerning Human Knowledge,” “Science: Conjectures and Refutations, “The Nature of Philosophical Problems and their Roots in Science,” “Truth, Rationality, and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge,” and The Demarcation Between Science and Metaphysics”), pp. 3-119 and 215-292.] Rouse, Joseph, 1996. Engaging Science: How to Understand Its Practices Philosophically. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Tuana, Nancy, ed. 1989. Feminism and Science. Bloomington, IN: Indian University Press. Van Fraassen, Bas C., 1990 (1980) The Scientific Image. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press. Vincenti, Walter, 1990. What Engineers Know and How They Know It. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. Especially chapters 1, 7, and 8. Articles and Chapters Kroes P, and Meijers, A (eds) 2000. The Empirical turn in the philosophy of Technology, Vol. 20) Oxford: Elsevier Science Ltd: Rip, A "There's no turn like the empirical turn," pp. 3-17 Kroes, P "Engineering design and the empirical turn in the philosophy of technology," pp. 19-43 Bos, B "To what extent should a critical philosophy of technology be constructivist," pp. 45-64 Bucchiarelli, LL "Object and social artifact in engineering design," pp 67 - 80 Meijers, AWM "The relational ontology of technical artifacts," pp. 81 - 96 Pitt, JC "Design mistakes: the case of the Hubble space telescope." pp. 149 - 163 Layton, Edwin, 1971. “Mirror Image Twins: The Communities of Science and Technology in Nineteenth Century America,” Technology and Culture 12:562-580. Layton, Edwin, 1987. “Revisiting Mirror Images,” Technology and Culture 12:562-580. Pitt, Joseph, 1998. “Developments in the Philosophy of Science 1960-1995.” Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Supplementary volume. Quine, W.V.O., 1951. “Two Dogmas of Empiricism,” Philosophical Review. Multiply reprinted, most prominently in Quine, From a Logical Point of View. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1953. Shapere, Dudley. Review of The Structure of Scientific "Revolutions," Philosophical Review 73 (1964): 383-394. And "Meaning and Scientific Change." In R. Colodny, ed., Mind and Cosmos: Essays in Contemporary Science and Philosophy (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1966). pp. 41-85. Reprinted in Shapere, Reason and the Search for Knowledge: Investigations in the Philosophy of Science (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1984) and, in large part in I. Hacking (ed.), Scientific Revolutions (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981), pp. 28-59. Suppe, Frederick, 1974. “Introduction” and “Postscript," The Structure of Scientific Theories. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. Winner, Langdon, 1993. “Upon Opening the Black Box and Finding it Empty: Social Constructivism and the Philosophy of Technology,” Science, Technology and Human Values 18: 362-378.