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SENATE COMMITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES 

PHILOSOPHY - PROPOSED NEW COURSES - 

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PHILOSOPHY OF NATURAL AND SOCIAL 

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Action undertaken by the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies 

at its meeting of September 14, 1982 gives rise to the following motion:- 

MOTION: 

"That Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board 

of Governors, as set forth in S.82-93 , the proposed new 

courses - 

PHIL 244-3 - Introduction to Philosophy of Natural and 

Social Science 

PHIL 325-3 - Philosophy of Art II 

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with deletion of PHIL 140-3 - The Nature of Science." 

Subject to approval of these courses by Senate and the Board of 

Governors, the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies approved waiver 

of the two semester time lag requirement in order that PHIL 244-3 and 

PHIL 325-3 may be first offered in Spring 1983-1. 

SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

MIMORANDUM

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CALENDAR CHANGES: 

Subed ..... EPA1N.Qt.PHWS0PHY .......... ................ .........Date.........April ... 28,...1.982 ................... .... .... ...... . 

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OFFICE OF TRi

MIY 26 1982

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DELETION OF: 

FAfLTY OF ARTS

PHIL 140-3 The Nature of Science 

A general examination of bow historians, scientists, sociologists, 

and philosophers answer the question: What is Science? Historical 

and contemporary examples of scientific discovery will be used to 

illustrate the different approaches. (Lecture/Tutorial) 

Open to all students. 

Students with credit for G.S. 104, "The Scientific Ethos" may not 

take PHIL 140 for further credit. 

ADDITION OF: 

PHIL 244-3 Introduction to Philosophy of Natural and Social 

Science 

An introduction to philosophical issues concerning the nature of 

science. Topics to be discussed include the distinction between 

science and pseudo-science, the nature of the scientific method, 

the nature of explanation in the natural and social sciences, the 

phenomenon of scientific change, the relationship between scienti- 

fic theory and observation, and the objectivity of social science. 

This course is intended for students in the natural and social 

sciences. 

RATIONALE: 

PHIL 140 was intended as a service course for students in other 

disciplines, but it was not particularly designed for science 

students, and it has had small enrollments. We hope that the new 

course, PHIL 244, will appeal to students in the natural and 

social sciences. It has been designed with them in mind. 

The new course will be sufficiently different from PHIL 140 that 

we do not need to prevent students from taking it who have taken 

PHIL 140. The new course is at the second year level in the 

hope that enrollees will have had more background in their home 

discipline than might be the case were it at the first year 

level. 

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NEW COURSE PROPOSAL FOP.1 

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244

Credit Hours: 

3 -

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I'Itla of Course: 

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Introduction to Philosophy of Natural and Social 

Science 

Calendar Description of Course: 

An introduction to philosophical issues concerning the 

nature of science. Topics to be discussed include the distinction between science and 

pseudo-science, the nature of the scientific riethod, the nature of explanation in the 

natural and social sciences, the phenomenon of scientific change, the relationship between 

scientific theory and observation, and the objectivity of social science. 

Natuie of Course 

Introductory course intended for students in the natural and social 

Prerequisites (or special instruction.): 

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sciences. 

This course is intended for students in the natural and social sciences. 

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course (courses), if any, is being dropped from the calendar if this course is 

approved: 

PHIL 

140-3.

The Nature of Science. 

2.eduItr.

Itow frequently will the course be offered? Annually 

Semester in which the course will first be offered? 

83-1

Which of your present faculty would be available to make the proposed offering 

possible? 

Professors Swartz, Hanson, Bradley, Davis, Zimmerman 

Objectives

of the Course 

This course is intended to introduce students interested in the natural and social science 

to philosophical issues concerning the nature of science. 

4.

Itudetary and Space Requirements (for information only) 

What additional reoources will be required in the following areas: 

Faculty   

None 

Staff    

None 

library   

None 

Audi- 

Visual 

None 

Space    

None 

Equipment  

None 

5. Approval 

Date:___________ 

E.

Department Chairman 

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Dean          

ChaArman,SCUS ? 

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73-34b:--

(When completing this form, for instructions see Memorandum SCUS 73-36a. 

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outline). 

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PHILOSOPHY OF THE NATURAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 

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PHILOSOPHY 244 

TOPIC 

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READINGS 

1. Fact-gathering and 

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Bacon; Hume; Mill 

'Naive' Inductivism 

Popper on Conjectures; Hempel 

on Semmeiweiss; Hempel on H-D 

2.

Critique of Naive Inductivism; 

Method of Conjectures; 

Hypothetical-Deductive Model 

3.

Is there a Logic of Discovery? 

4.

Observational facts 

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Theoretical 

(hypothetical) facts 

5.

What makes an hypothesis 

(or theory) 'scientific'? 

'Fitting the facts' vs 

'explaining the facts' 

6.

Are theories unfalsifiable paradigms? 

7.

Experimentation vs. field study 

(Inability to 'control' or manipulate 

the variables in social research) 

8.

The problem of the non-recurring case 

in explaining social phenomena 

9.

Is there a special faculty required for 

understanding human actions (sociology, 

economics, criminology, etc.)? 

N.R. Hanson 

Mach; Logical positivists; 

G. Maxwell 

Popper on falsifiability; 

Chalmers on falsifiability 

The Velikovsky affair 

Kuhn 

the design of so-called 

'ex post facto' research 

Collingwood; Scriven; etc. 

Abel, E. Nagel, etc. on 

"Verstehen" 

10. Laws of individual behavior vs. laws of 

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Meehl and others; E. Nagel 

group behavior; methodological reductionism; 

Emergence. Are the laws of group behavior 

'ultimately reducible' to those of chemistry 

and physics? 

11.

Reflexive (self-fulfulling and self 

frustrating) predictions in social 

contexts 

12.

Can social science be value-free? 

Should it be? 

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OF ARTS

Merton; Buck; Grunbaum 

L. Strauss; E. Nagel; Rudner 

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Code: 

Philosophy 

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Art II 

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325

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3

Calendar Description of Course: 

An advanced study of various topics in aesthetics, e.g. Formalism 

and Expressionism 

in

the Arts, the Nature of Aesthetic Judgement and Criticism, Meaning 

and Truth in the Arts, Art and Society, and Creativity. 

Nature of Course 

An advanced course in aesthetics. 

Prerequisites (or special instruction.): 

Phil 242: Philosophy of Art or permission of the instructor. 

What course (courses), if say, is being dropped from the calendar if this course is 

approved: 

None 

2.edutLr. 

now frequently will the course be offered? 

Once in six semesters. 

Semester in which the course will first be offered? 

83-1 

Which of your present faculty would be available to make the proposed offering 

possible? Professors 

Todd and Hanson 

Rationale for 

Oe*vUiwo1c the

Course 

The department has lacked an advanced course in philosophy of the 

arts. 

4.

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$etaryandSpaceRequirements (for information only) 

What additional resources will be required in 

the

following areas: 

Faculty 

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None 

Staff ? 

None 

I.ibrary ? 

None 

Audi" Visual, 

None 

Specs 

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None 

Equipment 

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None 

5. Approval 

Date:     

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Dean 

Department Chairman                    

Char.ani 

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73-36b:- (When completing this form, for instructions see Memorandum SCUS 73-34a. 

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course 

outline),

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-    SAMPLE COURSE DESCRIPTION 

PHILOSOPHY 325-3 

PHILOSOPHY OF THE ARTS 

Semester 

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D.D. Todd 

The Nature of Aesthetic Experience 

and Judgment 

Although discussions of beauty and other aesthetic qualities are found 

in philosophical literature as far back as the history of philosophy goes, 

until around the 18th Century such discussions were always linked with other, 

more urgent, concerns in epistemology and metaphysics, or with ethical and 

social values. Aesthetic issues were strictly of secondary importance. But 

early in the 18th Century aesthetics as a distinctive study began to take 

shape, first in the writings of Francis Hutcheson and David Hume, whose primary 

interest was in the standards and logic of judgement of taste. Kant, late in 

the 18th Century, came to regard aesthetic experience as a crucial component 

in human experience generally, and thus was pushed into regarding an account 

of aesthetic judgement as essential to any general theory of judgement. He 

came to see aesthetic judgement as being 

neither 

theoretical (scientific) nor 

practical (moral) but, curiously, as purely subjective but 

nevertheless 

command- 

ing universal assent because of the common nature of human subjectivity. 

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Kant's aesthetic theories have had an enormous impact on the history 

of aesthetics in such later philosophers as Schiller, Schopenhauer, Hegel, 

Nietzsche, and their many progeny. Recently, among Anglo-American analytic 

aestheticians, there has been a strong revival of interest in Kant's aesthetics 

in connection with topics in the philosophy of mind such as the unconscious, 

the

imagination, 

representation, intention etc. This course will consist 

entirely of an intensive study of Kant's 

The Critique 

Judgement, 

the fount 

of so much of the important work in aesthetics since it was originally pub- 

lished. 

Although only PHIL 242 is a formal prerequisite for this course, 

students who have had PHIL 151 or PHIL 452, or PHIL 120 will probably find that 

those courses will have been of some help in preparing thaem for this course. 

COURSE WORK: 

Three short term papers each worth 25% of the final mark, and a final 

exam. 

REQUIRED TEXT:

Kant: 

The Critique 

Judgement 